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

It is only an inquiry, as Senator Hanson has suggested. What are we so scared of? I think 'protection racket' is most appropriate in terms of framing what is going on here.

It is why, once again, I support Senator Hanson's calls into this organisation and I encourage everyone in this place to do the same. If we're really, truly serious about helping our most marginalised, we shouldn't sit around waiting for a nonsense, fairytale, detail-less, risky, unknown, permanent change to our Constitution. We get off our backside and do what the taxpayer pays us to do, which is our job, to look into these organisations. Enough is enough.

I support this inquiry wholeheartedly. I will continue to fight for the voices of those who are discarded and who are disrespected. Despite all the platitudes of acknowledgements, all the platitudes of paying respect to Indigenous Australians elders past, present and emerging—all those platitudes that we go on about and we hear like a drone—there is no real action to back up those words. No real action. And that action can start this minute, not tomorrow, not the next day and not 14 October; it can take place now. So let's support this motion.