For her supporters, it was a political masterstroke. For her critics, it was opportunism of the first order. For Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, it was a case of being in the right place at the right time.

One of the main advocates of the No campaign in the Voice to parliament referendum, the Northern Territory senator did as much as anyone to defeat the proposal for recognition of Indigenous Australians in the Constitution, delivered as an advisory body to the federal government.