Senator Price, who is one of 11 Indigenous parliamentarians, said the the reason First Nations people 'have failed so much' was because they were always regarded as a separate entity. 'They're more concerned about how the wider public view them as opposed to actually solving some of these issues, so they remain silent,' she said. Senator Price added that it was a pity that more concerned Indigenous Australians didn't speak up about domestic violence, child sexual abuse, and alcoholism in their communities. She replied that she didn't think Senator Hanson was racist and in fact 'cares deeply for Indigenous Australians' and her concern was about 'taking more practical approaches towards solving some of our problems'. She said many indigenous people didn't view themselves as victims of history on Australia Day, instead seeing themselves 'as proud Australians'.įitzSimons asked Senator Price if it ever bothered her that among her supporters were 'people with little to no respect for the Aboriginal people' such as Pauline Hanson. Senator Price said that view was just a narrative created to suggest most Aboriginal people felt that way. and do everything possible to fix the future', but she has been 'a very prominent voice howling us down'. Senator Price said travelling around the world with her teacher parents - an Indigenous mother and white father - when she was 13 opened her eyes 'to how we're all human'.įitzSimons also put it to Senator Price that in many people's view it is 'time to recognise the shocking past. This came after Senator Hanson stormed out of the upper house rather than sit through an acknowledgement to country. Senator Price also defended another bitter critic of the Voice, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, as someone who 'cares deeply for Indigenous Australians'. Instead of being a unifying voice to promote Indigenous issues, she claimed it would be just another layer of bureaucracy that would divide her people from white Australia and assume they would always be 'victims'. Senator Price told FitzSimons the broad bipartisan support for the Voice is a result of too many Australians 'drinking the Kool-Aid' and not listening to a silent majority of Aboriginals.
She had also used her maiden speech to parliament on July 27 to rail against the concept of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and a proposed referendum to enshrine it in the constitution.
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