Well, I’m not one to never admit when I’m wrong. I recently reported that Australia’s 47th parliament was “a parliament of clowns and one firebrand”.
In fact, there’s two firebrands.
The first, of course, is veteran senator Pauline Hanson, who outraged the woke by storming out of the fatuous “Traditional Acknowledgement”. The other is newly minted Senator Jacinta Price.
Price, a Celtic-Walpiri woman from the Northern Territory delivered a blistering maiden speech, savaging “progressive” politicians’ obsession with virtue-signalling garbage like “Welcome to Country” and an “Indigenous Voice” – none of which does a damned thing to help Aboriginal women and children suffering horrific domestic violence and sexual abuse.
Jacinta is standing with Pauline.
Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price has defended the actions of Pauline Hanson who stormed out of parliament during the Acknowledgement of Country.
Hanson was speaking for many Australians who are fed up to the back teeth with being bludgeoned with this pious nonsense at everything from a school assembly to a routine plane flight.
Senator Price leapt to the defence of Senator Hanson on Thursday as she doubled down on her criticism of “symbolism” and argued the ceremonies became excessive.
“While I understand the need for acknowledgment is important, we’ve just been absolutely saturated with it,” she told 2GB’s Ben Fordham.
“It’s getting to the point where it’s actually removing the sacredness of traditional culture and practices. It’s become almost like a throw-away line.”
It’s not insignificant that, on the same day the parliamentary left was screeching at Hanson for not putting up with pointless symbolism, they were dismantling practical policies for Aboriginal communities. The Labor government has voted to remove alcohol bans in remote communities and do away with the cashless benefit card, which can only be used to buy food and other necessities, rather than alcohol.
Price, who, like many Aboriginal women, has seen her fill of alcohol-fuelled violence, took Hanson’s side.
“I’ve had my fill of being symbolically recognised, like, I’ve had enough of it. It’s really nothing to improve the lives of marginalised people,” Senator Price added.
“We don’t want to see all these symbolic gestures, we want to see real action.
“We want to see change for the benefit of not just marginalised Australians but all Australians.”
Unlike the troughers in the Aboriginal Industry, Price is opposed to the “Voice” push.
“We hear the platitudes of motherhood statements from our now prime minister, who suggests without any evidence whatsoever that a Voice to Parliament bestowed upon us through the virtuous act of symbolic gesture by this government is what is going to empower us.
“His government has yet to demonstrate how this proposed voice will deliver practical outcomes and unite rather than drive a wedge further between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
“No, Prime Minister, we don’t need another handout… and no we indigenous Australians have not come to agreement on this statement.”
Price is one of a record number of indigenous MPs in Parliament. Far from being ‘voiceless’, Aboriginal Australians now have more MPs per capita than the rest of Australia. Too many of them, though, seem obsessed with symbolism and power-grabs over practical outcomes.
[Price] said issues such as women’s safety, housing and economic development should take precedence over the proposed Voice to Parliament.
Sky News
What, and bring the gravy train for a select ‘indigenous’ elite to a screeching halt?
They’d as soon give up their tanning beds.