Feels Like Alice Springs Has Got Bigger Issues Than Indians Going To Uni In Sydney And Melbourne

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

The Federal Opposition’s post-election rebuild has been thrown into disarray this week – as Peter Dutton’s party-hopping problem child, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, strives to generate the same media buzz that she was gifted during the Indigenous Voice.

After experiencing a meteoric political rise as the face of noisy No campaign, the Northern Territory senator has not yet shown any range outside of those miserable few months of clickbait-fuelled division.

Since the results came in on the day of the resoundingly unsuccessful referendum, Price has been left spinning in purgatory – without any clear role in the years since she was briefly utilised to give rednecks permission to say the things they were thinking.

For about 24 hours in late 2024, she given the title of Australia’s DOGE auditor, that was until her exorbitant parliamentary expenses were made public and everyone realised she probably wasn’t an appropriate spokesperson for cutting government expenditure.

But still Price longed for the sugar hits that came with undermining the Uluru statement as a keynote speaker touring rooms full of angry white boomers at the height of the cost-of-living crisis.

This burning desire to be on television resulted in Price completely derailing Liberal Party’s election campaign with anti-trans comments and tone-deaf Trumpian slogans – as Peter Dutton was working desperately to distance himself from the populism of MAGA Republicans.

Throughout her a short political career, the former CLP senator turned unelected Liberal senator turned isolated Coalition backstabber has always been quick to point to the social issues that exist in her hometown of Alice Springs when arguing against social justice causes.

But the ‘war on woke’ has proven to bleed votes. So this week, with no talking points to work from other than the deranged racism of fringe political groups on social media, she turned her attention to Indian migrants destroying Australian democracy.

It is not certain how this issue relates to the problems faced by her predominantly Indigenous constituents and their ever-growing gaps in life expectancy, education and health – but with immediate condemnation from her colleagues it seems these comments have done to her own party what the No Campaign did to Australia.