Jacinta Price
Jacinta Suzette Yangapi Nampijinpa Price (Warlpiri pronunciation: [jaŋabi nambiɟ̊inba]; born 12 May 1981) is an Aboriginal Australian politician. She is of Irish, Scottish and Warlpiri descent. She has been a senator for the Northern Territory since the 2022 federal election. She is a member of the Country Liberal Party, a conservative party operating in the Northern Territory and affiliated with the Liberal–National Coalition on a federal level. Since May 2025, she has sat with the Liberal Party in federal parliament, having formerly sat with the Nationals. She was the shadow defence minister until September 2025.
After a career as an entertainer singing, songwriting and hosting a Yamba Playtime children's program on Imparja TV, Price was elected to the Alice Springs Town Council in a by-election in October 2015, with her swearing-in overseen by her mother, then the NT Minister for Local Government. In the 2019 federal election, she unsuccessfully stood for the Country Liberal Party in the Division of Lingiari. She later worked for right-wing lobby group Advance and wrote opinion pieces for media owned by News Corp.
Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by Aboriginal communities include domestic violence, herself being a victim, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative politics in Australia, appearing frequently on Sky News Australia. She has also received significant donations from Gina Rinehart and been described by Lachlan Murdoch as ‘a beacon of light in a sea of woke darkness’. She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a harder law and order approach. She is critical of welfare dependency and what she describes as “opportunistic collectivism". She opposed the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and believes that calls to change Australia Day and the Australian flag are counterproductive to Aboriginal advancement.
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