Aussie wrote on Sep 14
th, 2023 at 3:18pm:
I tried to check her educational background but the www is strangely silent on that.
HSC. More than you can say - of Thick-as Gino.
In any case, she is incomparably more articulate and intelligent than you, Aarse, no matter how much you fetishise credentials.
As she said at the Press Club:
Aboriginal Australians … have the same opportunities as all other Australians in this country. We certainly have one of the greatest systems around the world in terms of the democratic structure in comparison to other countries.
“It is why migrants flock to Australia to call Australia home because the opportunity that exists for all Australians. But if we keep telling Aboriginal people that they are victims, we are effectively removing their agency and giving them the expectation that someone else is responsible for their lives.”
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The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party senator, who wants a royal commission into the sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, said a key priority must be addressing cultural practices in remote communities that drive the highest rates of family and interpersonal violence in Australia.
“The experience that, not because of the effects of colonisation, but because it is expected that young girls are married off to older husbands in arranged marriages. We haven’t had a feminist movement for Aboriginal women because we have been expected to toe the line … for the rights of our race but the rights as women has been second place,” she said.
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Asked whether a stand-alone Indigenous Australians minister should exist, Senator Price said “I would hope to see that one day in our country, we wouldn’t require such a portfolio”.
Senator Price said a constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament body suggests that the “gap will exist in perpetuity and that is not what we want”.
“If we don’t have that (Indigenous Australians) portfolio it means that everybody is taking advantage of the same opportunities that our country has to offer.”
For now, Senator Price said she would use the “position of power to hold to account those that we are responsible for within this portfolio”.
“There are over 3,000 Aboriginal organisations and many of whom the responsibility of this portfolio go under.”
“If you’re responsible for such a portfolio you should be holding to account those under you that are supposed to be delivering the outcomes because government might hold the purse strings but it is everybody’s responsibility going forward and that is the accountability that I don’t believe has been applied effectively enough previously.”