Jacinta Price

Liberal Senator Jacinta Price believes the reinstatement of alcohol bans in Central Australian communities has come far too late and The Voice will not ...

Ferguson laid into Ms Price over her opposition to the Voice, asking the Country Liberal Party Senator why she wanted to “stand in the way” of Indigenous people ...

You can read the [original article](https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/patronising-abc-slammed-for-interview-with-senator-jacinta-nampijinpa-price-over-her-opposition-to-indigenous-voice/news-story/0906ab104e91026afe4c724650243dee) here. [](https://nnn.ng/#:~:text=blogger outreach company) We need ears in Parliament, not a Voice to Parliament,” she said. “It’s evident that … they are not in fact listening,” she said. If anything, the situation in Alice Springs has demonstrated the fact …

Country Liberal party senator Jacinta Price tabled the Northern Territory safe measures bill in federal parliament. 03:59.

“There is no way Marion Scrymgour [Labor member for Lingiari] and myself would ever want to be setting up an intervention like occurred in 2007,” she said. “The next night, when alcohol did begin to flow again, we got eaten alive,” McCarthy said. “We all have our stories,” McCarthy said. “And there was no doubt the abuse that we experienced is one that I’ve never forgotten. Communities could opt out of blanket bans if their alcohol management plan (AMP) had been approved by the “relevant federal minister”. “This will ensure that there is Commonwealth oversight over the Northern Territory Government responsibility in delivery of AMPs, that the plans are local and community-driven, that they meet the objective and are consistent with human rights,” the bill reads.

Coalition senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has cried in parliament after introducing legislation to impose further alcohol restrictions in the Northern ...

She said the past few months had been a “traumatic time for the people of Alice Springs”, but the issues there were “not just about alcohol” and would require investment in health and education to address. Labor senator Malarndirri McCarthy said she had urged the Territory government in August last year to introduce its own legislation to ensure alcohol bans were in place following the sunsetting of the Stronger Futures laws. Dorinda Cox, a Greens senator for Western Australia, said intervention had been proved not to work and Indigenous people were “self-medicating” with alcohol to deal with trauma. She said she had written to Ms Fyles in October to outline her proposal and had consulted widely with stakeholders and residents across the NT. “The Australian government has a responsibility to ensure that the NT has consistency in law and order.” Senator Price told the upper house about her family members whom she said had suffered and in some cases died because of alcohol abuse in her home town of Alice Springs.