The Country Liberal Party Senator has told Sky News Australia why she believes the violence and abuse plaguing Aboriginal communities - not the Voice - should be the country's national focus.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is recalling a conversation she had with a group of progressive Indigenous women at a university debate who were challenging her on issues of race.
‘The Voice: Australia Decides’ will air on Sky News Australia’s new channel on Foxtel ‘Sky News The Voice Debate’ at 8pm AEST on Tuesday July 25 and will also be streaming on SkyNews.com.au. Country Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price - pictured with Sky News Australia's Matt Cunningham - has hit out at the 'racism of low expectations' for Aboriginal women. Picture: Sky News Australia“I got a lot of support from that, and equally, I was also condemned for that,” she says.
We pull off the Tanami Road at the Yuendumu turn-off, about 300km northwest of Alice Springs. It’s here that things take a strange turn.We’re directed to an office building and asked to come inside.She tries to call but there is no answer.Warlpiri elder Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves posts a statement on social media.
“I believe that the Voice has the capacity to transfer power to a group of individuals who have been failing for the last however many decades to improve the lives of our most marginalised, but have certainly ensured that billions of dollars of funding reaches large organisations where our least marginalised Indigenous Australians work and live,” she says.
Price describes the silence surrounding the violence suffered by Aboriginal women as a national disgrace.
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