Jacinta Price, Warren Mundine fire Voice warning shot to Albanese
Nationals senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has warned Prime Minister Anthony Albanese not to expect First Nations people to vote “yes” on the Voice to parliament referendum.
Senator Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine, both leaders of official “no” campaigns, spent Wednesday morning in Parliament House, speaking to Indigenous community representatives from across the country.
They said Aboriginal people did not want to be divided or segregated, as they say the Voice threatened to do.
“We stand as one under (the Australian) flag as Australians – whether we are from the first peoples of this country, whether it’s from those who came on the first fleet, and the settlers and the migrants that come to this country,” Senator Nampijinpa Price said.
“We are one Australia.”
She called for an audit of the government’s Indigenous agencies, and said she believed the Voice was shaping up to be merely another level of bureaucracy on top of all the layers that had “already failed”. Read More…
