The conservative senator was elected thanks to suburban voters in Darwin and Alice Springs not remote communities she aims to champion
ll these people, they are here to help us protect our culture,” said Kenny Lechleitner, a senior Warlpiri man standing tall amid the crowd at a Yes23 town hall meeting in Alice Springs a few weeks ago. He was responding – sometimes in English, sometimes in Warlpiri – to his uncle, an aged, white-bearded and wheelchair-bound Ned Jampijinpa Hargraves, who was sitting in the front of the 250 or so people packed into the hall.
Another surprise was delivered by Lawson Broad, a former president of the Country Liberal party in the Northern Territory, that same political body that is represented in federal parliament by the Alice Springs resident senator. A few months before, Broad had resigned from the CLP because of the party’s opposition to the voice. Despite his long devotion to conservative politics in the NT, he is now a leading figure campaigning against the party he used to preside over.
Price’s election to the Senate in 2022 came overwhelmingly thanks to support from suburban voters in Darwin, Alice Springs and Katherine, not voters in the bush. Her constituency is predominantly white. Having found her niche conforming to the conservative version of an Indigenous leader … Price has been fast-tracked into the shadow ministry
In 2022 it was the same pattern, although as the first candidate on the CLP Senate ticket, Price did get elected, but on a declining share of the vote. Comparing the 2022 CLP Senate vote with 2019 shows that while the national swing against the Morrison government was nearly 6%, the CLP vote in the NT was down 20%. In remote communities, as in 2019 when Price ran for the House of Representatives, her Senate vote in the bush was negligible.
Price embarked on a well-funded national speaking tour in September 2019 called “Mind The Gap – Bridging the Indigenous Divide” with profile-boosting appearances promoted by conservative groups along the east coast.
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