Jacinta Price says she's 'NOT a victim' based on her 'racial heritage'

Jacinta Price says she's 'NOT a victim' based on her 'racial heritage'

Nigel Farage and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Harvey Gough

By Harvey Gough


Published: 03/11/2023

- 17:57

"They’re continuing to peddle the victimisation narrative and Australians don't want a bar of it," said Price.

GB News’ Nigel Farage has sat down for a conversation with Australian senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to discuss the country’s recent referendum.

The vote asked the Australian people whether indigenous Australians should be given more of a voice, including an alteration to the country’s constitution giving them ability to make representations to the Parliament.


Nigel opened the conversation with Price, who currently serves as Australia’s Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians.

He said: “Australia has a referendum and the issue may be different, but the dividing lines were the same. This was a little bit like the Brexit campaign, wasn't it?

Nigel Farage and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Nigel Farage and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

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“Because anyone that dared to support the No campaign were called nasty names. They were racist, they were all of these things. But you suddenly found yourself, and it was really your maiden speech in the Senate, in the perhaps not particularly friendly territory of Canberra.

“That was really the beginning of you as a national figure in Australia, wasn't it?”

Price responded, “Yes, I think so. You know, this concept that the corporates know better than the rest of Australia, Australians in general don't like to be told how to vote, how to think and all of those sorts of things.”

“But also, you know, the virtue signalling does nothing for anybody, doesn't do anything at all. And suggesting that I'm a victim because of my racial heritage is a racial stereotype that I will not allow to continue to be peddled.”

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Vote Yes and Vote No signs at an early voting centre for the Australian referendum

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Price has Aboriginal roots herself, with her mother serving as a community leader among the Warlpiri people.

“So the voice was based on that, the way the virtuous would stand up and the corporate Australia thought we know what's best for our poor indigenous people, therefore we are going to pour our resources behind the Yes campaign.

“They’re continuing to peddle the victimisation narrative and Australians don't want a bar of it.”

Leaders of the No campaign claimed the idea would create special “classes” of citizens, creating effectively a “two-tier” society.

The Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese during a press conference with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden at Point Loma naval base in San DiegoThe Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese during a press conference with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US President Joe Biden at Point Loma naval base in San DiegoPA

The campaign was full controversy, including former Australian PM John Howard describing colonisation as “inevitable”, adding: “I do hold the view that the luckiest thing that happened to this country was being colonised by the British.”

The referendum, held on October 14th, was rejected nationally and by a majority in every state, with over 60% of participants voting against the proposal.

Former Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce recently called the outcome a “A knockout of the Australian political scheme” while speaking with GB News.

“The people’s views were different to the government”, he said. “Every major corporation, every major sporting organisation, every major faith group, but they were overwhelmingly on the no side.”

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