Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (born 12 May 1981) is an Aboriginal Australian activist and politician. She has been a councillor for the Town of Alice Springs since 2015, currently serving as Deputy Mayor, and also serves as an Indigenous program director for the Centre for Independent Studies. She unsuccessfully stood for the Division of Lingiari at the 2019 Australian federal election, representing the Country Liberal Party.
Early life.
Born on 12 May 1981, Price is a Warlpiri and Celtic woman from Alice Springs. Price's mother, Bess Price, is a former Country Liberal Party member of the Northern Territory General Assembly.
Political positions and activism.
Price appears regularly on Sky News Australia, and is a prominent activist taking conservative positions on issues facing Indigenous Australians, having opposed the enshrinement of the Indigenous Voice, criticising public interest in Indigenous deaths as overlooking those deaths perpetrated by other Indigenous people, and criticising common beliefs about Indigenous Australians as “doing more damage than good”. She has criticised the move to change the date of Australia Day as “virtue-signalling”. In 2020, she criticised the Black Lives Matter campaign as “ignoring the real crisis” facing indigenous people.
Price launched defamation proceedings against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2019 in response to their coverage of her “Mind the Gap” tour; she consequently received a full public apology in April 2021.