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

I love being lectured to by an individual who's completely removed from the circumstances of my family, completely removed from my own circumstances, as a woman who is half Warlpiri. I love it, especially from individuals who see themselves as the saviours of the Indigenous people of this nation! This is not about appeasing your white guilt. This is about asking questions of the government, who wish to make huge amendments to our nation's founding document, the Constitution. So until you come and visit one of my remote communities and hear from Yeperenye, who are nothing but Aboriginal people, and hear what's going on in their communities, I think you need to just take a leaf out of your own book, brother.

Back to the questioning: this is so important. I understand that there are some in here that don't recognise the importance of this—that don't understand that there are Indigenous Australians in this country who don't support this Voice to Parliament.

I will highlight the fact that my Indigenous colleague from Central Australia has personally visited—and maybe you should go and visit them too—the Yanangu elders, those who I have a spiritual connection with through the marla jukurrpa, and they have told her specifically that they are very disappointed in this process and very disappointed in the term 'Uluru' being exploited by people like you for the purpose of political games and the purpose of pushing for a 'yes' vote in a referendum. Take a leaf out of your own book and go sit down with those elders.