NT Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price on the Voice to Parliament referendum and speaking out as a conservative Aboriginal woman

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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she has "no regrets" about being one of the main figures of the Voice to Parliament No campaign, but it has taken a personal toll.

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00:00I'm still pleased with the outcome. I feel like there is a sense in the country that

00:08people want to get on with practical ways forward for particularly our most marginalised.

00:15They're glad that there hasn't been a division set in place within our country, within our

00:20constitution and they're still seeking answers from the Albanese government certainly as

00:25to what they have in store, what was their backup plan, should the voice have failed

00:30and of course it has.

00:32The Yes side say that it was disinformation that lost them the vote. What do you have

00:37to say to that?

00:39If a suggestion is being put to you, a grand idea, if you don't have the detail of that

00:43grand idea, if you don't know what the detail is, why would you support it? And that was

00:49the basic truth of the situation. There was no detail. And if you don't know what the

00:53detail is, well you're not going to support it. You're not going to buy a car off its

00:57name if you can't see it for yourself. It could be a complete dud and therefore you're

01:02taking a huge risk.

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