Contrast could not be starker in Voice debate than dignified Jacinta Price and race-baiting Marcia Langton

More than any other leader, Jacinta Price has explained why the Voice is wrong in principle and dangerous if put in practice. In the face of threats, abuse and vitriol, she has remained dignified.

The contrast could not be greater. Speaking at the National Press Club on Thursday Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price gave the race-baiting ‘yes’ advocates, led by Marcia Langton, a lesson in civility, reconciliation and statesmanship.

In Price, we are watching a woman who may one day lead the nation. The Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians has withstood the most savage attacks from the ‘yes’ camp, but instead of resorting to the gutter tactics of the race-obsessed left, she has meticulously tackled the job at hand.

More than any other politician, community leader or activist, Price has articulated clearly to the Australian people why the Voice is wrong in principle and dangerous if put in practice. Price has been targeted with vicious attacks and threats from the moment she spoke out about the horrific rates of domestic violence in Indigenous communities, long before she entered federal parliament.

In Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, we are watching a woman who may one day lead the nation. Picture: Lukas Coch

But that abuse has intensified as she became the face of the ‘no’ camp.

“I have been told I’m a sellout, I’ve been racially abused, vilified, name-called and threatened with violence. And why? Because I want to stop children from being abused,” the senator said yesterday. “Because I want to stop women and men from being killed … the truth is, for all the moral posturing and virtue signalling about truth-telling, there is no genuine appetite in Canberra to tell the truth or to hear the truth.”

“My hope is that, after October 14, after defeating this Voice of division, we can bring accountability to existing structures, and we can get away from assuming inner-city activists speak for all Aboriginals, and back to focusing on the real ­issues: education, employment, economic participation and safety from violence and sexual assault.”

Bravo! That is precisely what this country needs; accountability for the enormous sums spent on closing the gap with such deplorable outcomes and focus on the substantive issues.

We do not need to enshrine racial privilege into the constitution and give more power to the activist class who have already wreaked enormous damage.

If only the media were as interested in investigating the billions squandered annually as they are running a protection racket for Langton and her incendiary rhetoric, which goes well beyond calling ‘no’ voters racists.

The desperate gaslighting by the media’s most zealous Voice activists has been amusing to witness.

Professor Marcia Langton speaking at a NAIDOC Week event on July 7. Picture: Supplied.

One could almost forget that Langton has form for ugly remarks previously calling Bess and Jacinta Price “coloured help”.

The Voice architect has also wished a slow death on Mark Latham in a 2018 tweet:“You so deserve a slow, painful death and humiliating obituaries eg ‘Australia celebrates as white supremacist, homophobic, far right wing arsehole finally dies’, ‘Australians look forward to a life without hate’,” she wrote unironically.

In 2019, after the Christchurch massacre, she launched an unhinged diatribe against the then Prime Minister Scott Morrison, accusing him of being complicit in mass murder.

The Melbourne University academic wrote: “‘Disgrace’ seems too soft in the circumstances. He’s complicit in mass murder & do (sic) too most of his cabinet members & back bench (sic).”