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

I am asking these very relevant questions because they are asked of me by members of the Australian community—those who have become recent citizens, and those who have ancestors who, like some of my ancestors, arrived here as convicts: where do they stand in all of this, in terms of this amendment to the Constitution and providing the opportunity for only a certain group of Australians to have a Voice for special measures or issues relating specifically to them that you can't identify within our Constitution? That is why I'm asking these questions.

We can all go back to the different parties. The Greens are haemorrhaging Aboriginal people from their party because they don't listen to the voices that don't agree with the Voice, evidently, but they will lecture my party. I am here to get to the crux of these issues. I am asking these questions on behalf of those Australians who don't know where they stand, who are wanting to understand, should this referendum be successful, where they stand. That is why I am asking these questions. They are asking me to ask you whether this government regards them as second or third Australians given that there is so much prominence given to First Australians—acknowledgements, platitudes, romanticism of culture and all of those things that it is evident those across the chamber don't have much of a clue about, actually. So, again, where does the rest of Australia stand with this constitutional amendment?