“I am a Warlpiri woman and I will vote yes because I believe that having the right to be heard by the parliament and the government will open a door for our children.”

Following a meeting this week at Spotted Tiger, near Atitjere (Harts Range),the Central Land Council’s 90 members have said in a statement that Northern Territory Country Liberal Party senator Jacinta Price neither speaks for them nor listens to them.

The members say they are sick of Senator Price’s continued attacks on land councils and other peak Aboriginal organisations in the Northern Territory and that they are community leaders and senior cultural men and women who speak for the communities that elected them.

“Senator Price should support us, not tell lies about us.” Lajamanu community leader Valerie Patterson.

Lajamanu community leader Valerie Patterson said Senator Price was misrepresenting the support for the voice in remote communities…