Jacinta Nampijinpa Price Lets Out A Frustrated Sigh After Remembering That Being A Federal Senator For The NT Requires Her To At Least Pretend To Care About This Cyclone Heading Directly Towards Darwin

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After months of very public disputes with the leadership of a political party that she joined 5 months ago, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has today realised that there's actually an expectation that Federal Senators engage in civic responsibilities.

Just yesterday, at the same time that Top End emergency services were issuing grave cyclone warnings to Northern Territory residents, the controversial senator was on Sky News talking shit about other colleagues.

She now faces a gruelling decision. Does she stay in Canberra and chase the Sky News media coverage that she craves. Or does she fly back to the Northern Territory and at least pretend to care that a category two weather event is about 400km north-east of Darwin and 200km from the Top End coastline.

This may just be the firebrand's senator's greatest political test yet. Does she pull a scomo and go off-grid, or does she roll up her sleeves and get stuck into the least enjoyable part of the job?

This comes after a year of burning bridges within the Coalition, starting with the great disrespect that was shown to the National Party when Liberal MP Angus Taylor recruited her to first change parties, and then run as his Deputy during the party’s leadership ballot.

Senior Nationals figures took to the media immediately to criticise the Liberals for their arrogance in poaching Price before the votes from the 2025 Federal Election had even been counted.

Jacinta Price had long been viewed as a promising National Party figure after Sky News decided that her ability to destroy the Indigenous Voice referendum made her a good politician.

It is believed that Taylor convinced her to join the party with the promise of getting more time on TV, which has been her number one career motivation ever since her days as an Alice Springs R&B singer.

Angus Taylor ended up losing the leadership ballot to Sussan Ley MP, this resulted in Jacinta Price choosing to not put her hand up for the subsequent Deputy leadership.

The right-wing of the Liberal Party, who had instigated this betrayal of the Nationals to recruit Jacinta Price, are now filthy with her for not following through with the plan when she realised that she could lose her vote as well.

Both the Nationals and the Liberal Party now view her as a traitor – a term that has long been associated with Jacinta Price every time she visits the Northern Territory.

The imminent arrival of Tropical Cyclone Fina is the type of thing that most local politicians would at least be posting about on social media, but Senator Price is still talking to Paul Murray about Net-Zero.