Jacinta Nampijinpa Price launches a fiery attack on Penny Wong: 'Kick in the guts'
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has unleashed on Foreign Minister Penny Wong after she suggested that the defeated Voice proposal was inevitable.
Ms Wong sparked a furore on Wednesday by predicting that the Voice - a separate indigenous body with powers to influence government legislation - will still be introduced, despite it being voted down 60 per cent to 40 per cent in a 2023 referendum.
'We'll look back on it in ten years' time, and it'll be a bit like marriage equality,' Senator Wong told the Betoota Talks podcast.
'I always used to say, marriage equality, which took us such a bloody fight to get that done, and I thought, all this fuss... It'll become something, it'll be like, people go "did we even have an argument about that?"
Her backing for the Indigenous body came just three days after Anthony Albanese ruled out any attempt to bring back the Voice, telling the leaders' debate: 'It's gone... I respect the outcome (of the referendum), we live in a democracy.'
Ms Wong later echoed Mr Albanese's words in an apparent backflip, telling SBS, 'the Voice is gone... The prime minister has made that clear, and the Australian people have made their position clear, and we respect the result of the referendum.'
Price, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, said on Thursday that Ms Wong's comments showed 'utter disrespect' to Aussies.
'That there is a kick in the guts and it demonstrates just how deceitful Labor are,' Ms Price told 2GB's Ben Fordham.
'Labor don't respect the outcome, they don't respect the will of the Australian people, because deep down, as Penny said, "it's inevitable" - she still believes in it.
'And they've never been straightforward any time I've asked them during Senate estimates what they're doing about their commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
'Of course there were three components - voice, treaty, truth - and yet they put aside $27million in a contingency account.
'So that tells me they absolutely have plans for things like the Makarrata Commission... It's still all on the table,' Ms Price said.
'This is utter disrespect to the Australian people for Penny to then say after the fact that it's dead.
'Well, it's dead to the Australian people - it's not dead to Labor.'
Ms Price, who has First Nations heritage, is the Country Liberal Party's Senator for the Northern Territory.
In addition to her role as Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians, Peter Dutton has said that if elected he would put her in charge of a new government efficiency portfolio similar to the one headed by Elon Musk in Donald Trump's administration.
Ms Price caused controversy earlier this month when she used the phrase 'Make Australia Great Again,' a localised version of Trump's signature line.
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