Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (NT, Country Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

So you're going to suggest that as a First Nations representative in this parliament, providing you with context, with lived experience and with the stories of those from my own community, my own family members, who live under customary law, I'm painting their stories in a bad light. So the truth doesn't apply under these circumstances. I'm trying to understand what your understanding of cultural legitimacy is, because it's culturally legitimate for someone to be accused of sorcery and to present themselves for physical punishment. I know it's not nice, but it is the truth, and, if we don't address the truth, forget the Voice, because, if a representative of the Voice doesn't want to address these truths, we're never actually going to address the real issues that are facing our most marginalised. It's tough, I know, Senator Watt. It is tough, but I would like to understand, as a Warlpiri woman who has lived my life witnessing the way in which my family have suffered because of cultural legitimacy, exactly what this government means by cultural legitimacy. This isn't about standing up and who can be the most virtuous and throwing back in, certainly, my face the experiences of those close to me. I'm trying to understand what has been outlined in this handy little booklet in terms of what cultural legitimacy means without the romanticism—just truth.