Jacinta Price on the Voice to Parliament No Campaign: Country Liberal Party member Jacinta Price is not supporting the Voice to Parliament as an Aboriginal lady. She recently revealed the reason why she is against the Voice Referendum.
Jacinta Price on the Voice to Parliament No Campaign:
Jacinta Price emotionally told about the 1000 attendees at a National Press Club speech and she and her fellow Indigenous politicians previously provided a voice for their people in federal parliament.
“I was a vessel for the women sitting in that room, the cousin of a young girl murdered hanging from a tree, the old woman in the middle of chemo who came to my office seeking to be heard because native title have written her and her family out of the history books,”
Why Is Jacinta Price Against the Voice Referendum?
Australian Senator Price reveals why she is against the Voice to Parliament referendum. “As more people tune in to the debate, it’s clear they understand the significance of the change they’ve been asked to consider, and they have questions,” she wrote,
“The one I get the most often, Why are you, an Aboriginal woman, opposing the Voice? The answer is simple, it’s the Voice of division.”
Aboriginal Australian Jacinta Price further wrote, “A movement of academics, activists, and elites who think they know better. Trust us, they say, we’ll get it right and give you the details later.”
She clarified experts had been subject to name-calling’ and abuse for opposing the principles of the Voice.
“When Yes campaigners realized they couldn’t win on the merits or their proposal, they turned to emotional blackmail.”
Senator Price expressed, at the event in Adelaide, that Indigenous allies of the No campaign were being singled out for their perspective against the Voice.
“People like myself … are singled out because apparently as Indigenous people, we’re supposed to agree with a proposal that is empty,” she added,
“You wouldn’t see a group of No people show up to a Yes event and protest and jump up and down and try to stop them from having their say.”
Jacinta Price Press Club Speech:
Senator Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price is fronting the National Press Club as the Voice to Parliament referendum looms. Her address to the National Press Club had several illustrations where the no-campaign leader seemed to misrepresent key aspects of the referendum or cause confusion over key sections of her portfolio.
“may make representations” to parliament and administrative government about matters relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. She clarified it meant the voice would “be more like a lobby group” that would act “only in the interests of its clients, not the interests of the government, the parliament, or even the nation.” as per The Guardian.
