‘Utterly ridiculous': Liberal Senator Jacinta Price rejects comparison between One Nation and Greens preferences

Sky News AU

23-04-2025

Liberal Senator Jacinta Price has rejected a comparison between One Nation and the Greens, declaring that unlike the latter, Pauline Hanson's party 'is not anti-Australian'.
The Albanese government has come under fire this week for preferencing the Greens in almost all its lower house seats.
However. news One Nation made a last-minute change to its how to vote cards in order to preference the Coalition in at least ten marginal seats provided Labor with the opportunity to equate the preference deals.
Speaking to Sky News Australia's Chris Kenny, Senator Price said the comparison was 'utterly ridiculous'.
'The Greens are absolute radicals. One Nation aren't radical like the Greens,' the Northern Territory Senator said.
'I mean, the antisemitism that we have seen increase in our country and the division that we've seen increase in our country is ridiculous.
'The Greens are a very dangerous party who are anti-Australian, let's face it. One nation is not anti-Australian.'
To back up her argument, the shadow Indigenous Australians minister pointed to the fact Pauline Hanson's party had supported the Coalition's push to audit the billions spent on Indigenous programs and their calls for a Royal Commission into sexual abuse in Indigenous communities.
In comparison, she described the Greens' approach to Indigenous policy as 'completely out of touch'.
'It's the reason why Lydia Thorpe left the Greens, because she understood the fact that they weren't interested in listening to Indigenous voices. They have their own agenda - I mean, it's quite infantilising,' Senator Price said.
'The Greens that we have in the Territory who talk a big talk about treaty and culture and all those things, but they are aligned with outfits like the Environmental Defenders Office, who exploit Aboriginal people and make up fake Indigenous dreaming stories for their own agendas – to block projects.
'This is what the Greens are all about, thinking that they know what's best for Aboriginal people when they're completely out of touch."
Senator Price also claimed a former Greens staffer, now working for an organisation combatting gender-based violence, had been gaslighting Indigenous women by attempting to deny a link between traditional culture and violence against women.
'It was a former Greens staffer, who now works for Our Watch, who tells journalists how to report on domestic violence and Indigenous Affairs and tries to gaslight us to suggest that violence is not part of traditional culture,' she said.
'We've got traditional cultural payback going on in places like the Northern Territory and those of us who've had the lived experience know that violence is accepted in traditional culture.
"So the Greens are dangerous. They're interested in their agenda – which is a radical agenda.
'They're not interested in supporting Indigenous Australians to get off welfare dependency and (become) economically independent and stand on their own two feet.'