Country singer challenges Peris in Senate race The Greens will seek to capitalise on bad blood over the shafting of veteran Labor senator Trish Crossin by running Aboriginal country singer Warren H. Williams in the Northern Territory Senate race. Mr Williams, a multiple ARIA award winner and star in the Top End and country music scene, will take on political novice Nova Peris for the one winnable seat for the progressive side of politics. Mr Williams nearly doubled the Greens' vote to 14 per cent in 2010 when he first represented the party. The 49-year-old from Hermannsburg said the election race should not be reduced to a contest between two high-profile indigenous people: "I'm standing because I believe it's the right thing to do, not because of any other candidate running, their name or the fact that they are Aboriginal or not."