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

I think it's important, especially for a lot of remote indigenous Australians, to have a little bit of understanding of how they feel they might be represented. You've mentioned the four land councils coming together. They've got lovely videos of some of their representatives saying 'This is about my voice.' But it's unclear to any of us here in parliament how their voices will actually be represented. It's obviously unclear to those who the land councils have put up to make these suggestions on their videos in support of the Voice. I am acutely aware of many traditional owners who come to me with their grave concerns about being disregarded, not recognised by the land councils and completely ignored by the land councils. In fact those representatives came to this parliament a couple of months ago and wanted to be able to engage with the government and have their voices heard. They wanted all parliamentarians to hear them, but nobody from the government bothered to listen to those representatives that had come here to voice their concerns about not being represented or respected and acknowledged by the land council that is supposed to acknowledge them and act on their behalf. So for the sake of those individuals, can you please clarify how a community will be determined?