Pro-voice website takes aim at senator Jacinta Price

A website has been created to ­attack Country Liberal senator Jacinta Price and ‘racist media commentators and lobbyists’ by anonymous proponents of the Yes campaign for an Indigenous voice.

Coalition senator Jacinta Price. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

A website has been created to ­attack Country Liberal senator Jacinta Price and “racist media commentators and lobbyists” by anonymous proponents of the Yes campaign for an Indigenous voice to parliament.

The website is encouraging people to purchase $30 T-shirts that display the slogan “Jacinta Doesn’t Speak For Me” and sign a petition in a bid to mount pressure on Nationals leader David Littleproud to dump his party’s anti-voice position.

“Right-wing politician for the Country Liberal Party Jacinta Price has been out there trying to undermine the historic push to create a First Nations voice to parliament and the racist media commentators and lobbyists are lapping it up,” the website reads.

“We need to make it clear to everyone that Jacinta doesn’t speak for us.”

The attacks come after the Nationals said they would formally oppose an Indigenous voice to parliament, with Senator Price calling it a “racist” proposal put forward by elites.

Senator Price said the pro-voice campaigners behind the website were hypocritically attempting to “silence” her voice despite her being a democratically elected Aboriginal woman.

“They just feel threatened if they have to attack me as a democratically elected Aboriginal woman. It kind of contradicts their argument to support Aboriginal voices when they’re trying to silence me.”

The website seems to attempt to align itself with UNSW’s Indigenous Law Centre and the ­formal architects of the Uluru Statement of the Heart despite having no connection.

The Australian understands architects of the voice were on Wednesday scrambling to contact the website creators, but it remains unclear who is behind the website as its registration has been “redacted for privacy”.

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce described the website as “caustic” and said Senator Price was being unfairly attacked because of her conservative beliefs.

“Obviously it shows only certain Indigenous people are all­owed to have a voice,” he said. “If I was to say something like that from the Nats about another Indigenous representative, I would be smashed and rightly so.”