Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has claimed Anthony Albanese does not have the “character” to be Prime Minister and criticized his handling of indigenous and racial issues.
The shadow minister for Indigenous Australians launched this blistering criticism on the first anniversary of the Voice referendum defeat.
Price criticized the prime minister for allowing states to go ahead with treaties despite 60 per cent of the country voting No on Voice.
Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, ACT and the Northern Territory are seeking to implement their own treaty, while South Australia legislated a Voice in March 2023.
Price also claimed that “extremist behavior” had been allowed to go unchecked because Mr Albanese was too busy playing “identity politics”.
The Coalition senator was referring to a white supremacist rally in Corowa, regional New South Wales, on Saturday.
“This type of behavior should be roundly condemned, but the problem is that this Prime Minister has failed to crack down on this type of extremist behaviour,” he told 2GB presenter Ben Fordham on Monday.
He linked what happened in Corowa to a pro-Palestine demonstration held in Sydney just over a year ago after the Hamas atrocity in Israel that left 1,139 dead and the failed Indigenous Voice referendum.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (pictured) has lashed out at Anthony Albanese over his handling of Indigenous affairs, saying he does not have “the character” to be Prime Minister.
“When you don’t line up those who want to protest on the steps of the Opera House, when you engage in an activity that divides a nation by race and play with identity politics,” he said.
“This is the environment created for this type of nonsense to occur.”
Price continued his withering attack in an article for The Australian saying Albanese had failed to address the needs of the Aboriginal community following The Voice’s defeat.
“Anthony Albanese’s handling of indigenous affairs in the 12 months following (the referendum) has served as an indictment of his character as leader of this great country,” he wrote.
The Northern Territory politician said since winning power in the May 2022 election, the Prime Minister had made it clear the referendum was going to be “his defining political moment”.
But he said that “it is not the failure of the referendum… that has been the downfall of the Prime Minister.” It’s your answer.’
He said Albanese had failed to respect the wishes of the Australian people in the referendum vote, given that voice and treaty-type negotiations were taking place across the country, in states and territories.
“What does it mean to respect someone’s wishes if you persistently allow things to move against those interests when you have the power to stop them?” he wrote.
Continuing his fierce attack, Nampijinpa Price said the Prime Minister’s “pride” led him to “criticise the public over the establishment of the Makarrata commission”.
Nampijinpa Price said Albanese (pictured) is to blame for a white supremacist rally in the New South Wales town of Corowa on Saturday.
The Makarrata Commission would have worked on a treaty between the federal government and the First Nations community, although the Labor government has since downplayed its importance.
Nampijinpa Price said there was a definite plan for Makarrata to be established as a formal body.
‘The Albanians committed 27.7 million dollars for its creation; Then $5.8 million was budgeted over three years, and the National Australian Indigenous Agency spent more than $650,000 on it,” he wrote.
“For Albanese to show up at the Garma Festival this year and suggest that Makarrata was nothing more than the feeling of togetherness after conflict is outrageous.”
He added that the Prime Minister “chose to bet his political career on The Voice, and its defeat did not have to be his downfall.”
“But the last 12 months have left no doubt that Albanese does not have the character to lead this country into the future.”
“We should never feel like we are in a country divided along racial lines. “It should never have gotten to this point,” he told Fordham.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted the Prime Minister for his response.