‘Nobody’s going to walk with her’: can Jacinta Nampijinpa Price work with Indigenous organisations if she becomes minister?

Protests have greeted Price on the campaign trail, and leading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander campaigners say having the Coalition senator in the Indigenous affairs portfolio would be a ‘disaster’

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The Western Australian city of Bunbury, in the conservative Liberal stronghold of Forrest, isn’t known for its radical activism. But when the local golf club hosted the outspoken Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for an LNP campaign event last week, dozens of Aboriginal people turned up to protest.

Charmaine Williams, a Noongar woman, was among them.

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