Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has delivered a tearful speech to the Senate as parliament remembers the life of Kumanjayi Little Baby.
The Liberal senator is the aunt of the five-year-old allegedly killed by Jefferson Lewis in Alice Springs last month. She called for the government to do more to protect Indigenous children living in town camps like the one from which Kumanjayi Little Baby was allegedly abducted.
“My niece’s life was taken senselessly, selfishly and horrifically. And the hardest truth of all is that for many in my hometown, none of this came as a surprise,” Price told the Senate.
“For too long in this country, there has been silence around what is happening in too many communities, a silence driven by fear of causing offence, a fear of being labelled racist, fear of speaking honestly about dysfunction, violence, alcohol abuse, neglect and conditions vulnerable children are growing up in. That silence is killing our babies.”
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