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

Senator, the matter for you is you previously just said, 'No, not all Indigenous Australians, or those of us of Indigenous heritage, are disadvantaged,' and yet your government is proposing a Voice to Parliament that paints all of us as being disadvantaged. You have highlighted the need for the most marginalised. You've read the statistics; well, I've lived it—that's my family, that's why I'm here, as part of a democratically elected group of Australians, representing those people. So, again, you've recognised their plight, you've recognised that not all of us are disadvantaged, and yet you can't answer the question: does this government consider Australians of Aboriginal heritage, every single one of us, as requiring special measures in the form of a Voice?