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

Is that racist to mention colour in this chamber? Is that offensive to anybody? Only when you use the word 'black' apparently. Aside from that, there is an admission there that there are those in organisations who take advantage of them. So, given that we know there is a problem, why do you not want transparency and accountability? Why do you not want these organisations to work effectively for our most marginalised Indigenous Australians? They're the ones that miss out every time. No, let's set up a whole new bureaucracy, with the opportunity for more of the same. Let's ingrain it in our Constitution—shall we?—so that the opportunists can come and take advantage of this new, no doubt well resourced, detailless, risky, divisive, unknown fairytale concept that the Australian people are expected to write 'yes' to so that we can have another organisation that can be ingrained in our Constitution that has every opportunity to fail our most marginalised Indigenous Australians and ignore once more what's going on with the many other organisations, this one in particular, that Senator Hanson has brought before us that we should, as is our responsibility as elected senators, hold an inquiry into. It is our responsibility. I don't care what someone's racial background is, but if an organisation that's designed to support our most marginalised is doing the wrong thing by those most marginalised, then they should be held to account.