The Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum is being pushed by bureaucratic “elites,” according to Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, who also claims it will “lead to the extinction of all Australians.”
The Country Liberals Senator criticized the referendum on Sunday during a debate on Sky News Australia, claiming that Indigenous communities were not given priority.
Senator Price vehemently disagrees with the referendum, which she argued originated from the “wrong place” by characterizing all members of First Nations as underprivileged.
Senator Price said to Sky News host Chris Kenny, “They’re thinking that just because one is Indigenous, they’re inevitably disadvantaged.”
I firmly believe that treating a group of people differently from the other members of that group—certainly not favoring them—does not uplift them.
As far as I’m concerned, we should not be segregated based on race because we are all Australian citizens.
My position has always been to serve the Australian people according to need.
Senator Price claimed that because the referendum followed bureaucratic methods that “lived off the back of their [Aboriginal community] misery,” it would not guarantee that Indigenous concerns would be resolved.
Senator Price stated that “and again, it is the most disadvantaged and uneducated who don’t have a clue what’s going on, so it is the elites who are driving this particular agenda.”
According to some, this voice model is meant to give them a voice.
Although the bureaucracies were created to help people, they have primarily benefited off their suffering.
Since it implies that all Indigenous people are somehow marginalized, I don’t believe that this mechanism is about serving them. Furthermore, it doesn’t actually address our problems.
Country Liberal Senators Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (pictured) criticized the Voice referendum, saying it failed to give indigenous communities the attention they deserved because it presumptively believed that all members of First Nations are disadvantageous.
Indigenous leaders from all throughout the nation lobbied for constitutional recognition and asked the government to organize a vote in a historic manifesto published in 2017.
By creating a permanent constitutional body to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the Voice to Parliament would also create a body that would advise the government on matters pertaining to Indigenous problems.
Dean Parkin, director of “From the Heart,” and Dr. Shireen Morris, a constitutional lawyer who was also a panelist, endorsed the Voice and stated that the organization would considerably enhance living in First Nation communities.
Mr. Parkin said that Indigenous Australians would have a “direct say” in decisions that affected their community and would result in “better outcomes.”
During the discussion, Mr. Parkin observed, “We can’t just carry on doing the same thing that we’ve been doing year after year if we do want to see those meaningful improvements in the communities at the grassroots.”
“It’s about giving the grassroots a voice so that we achieve better outcomes on the ground, better results, and better taxpayer value for a lot of the good will that goes into Indigenous affairs,” the author says.
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Senator Price (pictured) argued the referendum did not offer any guarantee in solving issues faced by Indigenous communities and was inherently problematic as it followed bureaucratic models that ‘lived off the back of their [Aboriginal communities’] misery’
“I think we’ll be better positioned to generate real results and better outcomes if Indigenous people have a constitutionally guaranteed advisory voice so the communities can co-design solutions in conjunction with government,” Dr. Morris said.
Basketball icon Shaquille O’Neal and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met in Sydney after the NBA player requested a meeting to hear more about the referendum on the planned Indigenous Voice to Parliament (pictured)
The Labor Government said a referendum will be held during Anthony Albanese’s first term as prime minister on election night.
Senator Price called Mr. Albanese’s meeting with basketball great Shaquille O’Neal to discuss the Indigenous Voice to Parliament a “petty political stunt.”
The former NBA player was expected to declare his support for the referendum but instead gave a few evasive platitudes before leaving the podium.
He turned and left the room within 10 seconds of arriving, pausing only to remind the PM he would need him to ‘give him that clearance too’ to take home the boomerangs he had earlier been presented with.
The PM insisted the meeting with the basketball star had been a huge success, telling media later: ‘It was a very positive conversation. He is interested in this country, his second visit to Australia.
Ms. Price said in a critical newsletter that Albanese couldn’t distinguish between a multimillionaire African American basketball player and Aboriginal Australians. She posted a postscript and the viral “surprised Shaq” meme to close the newsletter (pictured)
Senator Price criticized Mr. Albanese in a newsletter on September 2 for “trotting out an African American multi-millionaire” rather than paying attention to the Indigenous voices currently present in Parliament.
Senator Price stated: “Albo couldn’t pass up the chance to do a presser with a celebrity like O’Neal.”
‘In his tiny little mind he probably couldn’t see the difference between a multi-millionaire African American basketballer and Aboriginal Australians living in remote and rural Australia.
‘They don’t need an Indigenous Voice handpicked by the government, and they don’t need an American celebrity’s voice.
‘Indigenous Australians have their own voices, they are many and varied and you should start listening to them.’
Ms. Price has vocally criticized the government’s practices toward Native Americans. In her first statement to Parliament, she spoke out against what she called “handouts” and “symbolic acknowledgment” for Indigenous Australians while donning a traditional headdress (shown).
The newsletter came to a close with a postscript and the well-known “surprised Shaq” meme.
Senator Price added, “P.S. When you realize you were just exploited to implement racial divide in another country’s constitution.”
In her first speech to Parliament on July 27, Senator Price, a former deputy mayor of Alice Springs, aggressively criticized the government and railed against what she called “handouts” and “symbolic acknowledgment” for Indigenous Australians.