Warren Mundine blasts journos at fiery post-Voice press conference in defence of Jacinta Price

Warren Mundine has said journalists needed to “wake up” to themselves after pursuing bizarre line of questioning with Jacinta Price.

Warren Mundine has blasted sections of the media for their treatment of fellow No campaigner and shadow Aboriginal Australians minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price at a press conference Saturday, saying journalists needed to “wake up” to themselves.

“Wake up to yourselves, people are committing suicides in these communities, people are being raped and beaten and this is the questions you come up with?”, Mr Mundine said after a series of questions about voting results in remote Aboriginal communities.

“We’re about getting results – reducing suicides and instead of this nonsense that you people carry on with,” he said.

“It’s about time we had a vote tonight that said Australians want to get things done – well stop talking about all this other nonsense … wake up to yourselves and start asking real questions and making governments accountable.”

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Warren Mundine at the NO Campaign event in Brisbane. VOICEREF23 Picture: NCA NewsWIRE / John Gass

“People need to stop turning a blind eye to the violence, abuse, coercive control and destructive behaviour that goes on in some Indigenous communities.”

Mr Mundine continued, launching a broadside at the architecture behind the Voice, and particularly the contents of the longer form of the Uluru Statement from the Heart that became a major point of dispute during the campaign.

Senator Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine, both leaders of No campaign, National No Event, at the Hyatt Regency Brisbane, on Saturday 14th October 2023 - Photo Steve Pohlner

“(The Voice) sees Indigenous Australians as trapped in victimhood and oppression. This is a lie. It includes a self-proclaimed history of Indigenous Australia, called Our Story. Written to shame Australians about their non-indigenous ancestors and Australia’s founding,” he said.

“No nation has had a perfect beginning. Most have had bloody and brutal beginnings founded in invasion, conquest, revolution or war. I don’t judge a nation by the worst of its history, but how it seeks to become its better self.”

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