Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price offered a passionate plea to Australians living in capital cities to avoid turning a blind eye to violence as she posted a distressing photo of her grandmother, who was allegedly beaten and left wounded and bruised.
Senator Price urged the millions of Australians living in ‘leafy green suburbs’ to pay attention to violence in remote communities and be a voice for victims who are ‘out of sight, out of mind.’
In her first speech to the Senate, the senator from the Country Liberal Party highlighted the issue of violence in Aboriginal communities and routinely publishes footage of occurrences to raise awareness.
But her cries for action took on a more personal tone when her own grandmother, Tess Napaljarri Ross, was allegedly assaulted by another lady in the Northern Territory’s isolated outback hamlet of Yuendumu.
Ms. Ross is an Indigenous elder in the community, but according to Senator Price, she has not been accorded the respect she deserves.
‘This is what life looks like in a village like Yuendumu,’ she said beside a photo of her heartbroken grandmother’s bloodied neck and clothing.
She was viciously assaulted by a lady younger than her at Yuendumu, where she is neither regarded nor accepted as an elder. Her skull was shattered.
Jacinta Price shared this terrible photo of her grandma Tess Napaljarri Ross, who was allegedly attacked and injured.
Ms. Ross was brought to the hospital immediately following the taking of the photo.
Senator Price said in a lengthy Facebook post on Wednesday night that the four-year-old boy of her cousin had been frequently threatened with violence by older children in the same neighbourhood.
Senator Price asserts: “They’ve repeatedly threatened to stab him.”
She then attacked the mainstream media for ‘ignorantly’ disregarding Indigenous brutality.
Imagine a granny being brutally assaulted in front of you in Mosman, Surry Hills, Brunswick, Northcote, West End, or any other lovely suburb. Senator Price wrote, “Imagine this was your grandmother or your four-year-old son.”
“The brutality must cease, and all Australians must demand better for grandmothers like mine who are invisible and forgotten.”
It is unacceptable that the suffering of vulnerable Australian women, children, and men offends a small number of people when it is brought to their notice.
Ms. Ross traveled to Canberra to perform the Mala Jukurrpa ceremony for Senator Price, before watching with pride as her granddaughter was sworn into the Senate and gave her first speech.
Senator Price wrote, “This is my grandmother, my elder who attended my inauguration into the 47th parliament of Australia, my grandmother who performed the Mala Jukurrpa rite to transfer her power to speak in parliament to me, my grandfather’s sister, and one of the last of her generation.”
Tess Napaljarri Ross (right) is an indigenous elder who was allegedly attacked at Yuendumu. She is photographed at her parliamentary swearing-in with her granddaughter Jacinta Price.
The senator intends to draw attention to violence in Aboriginal villages such as Yuendumu (pictured), located 1,500 kilometers south of Darwin.
Senator Price concluded his post by criticizing privileged “First Nations” individuals for being silent on “black-on-black violence.”
She stated that grandstanding over damaged sentiments ensures the continuation of violence.
I demand that the violence STOP! I want to see safer communities! Everyone is responsible for this!
“If you want TRUTH-TELLING, begin telling the TRUTH!”
The senator’s spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that the senator’s family was addressing the matter and was unable to say further at this time.
Senator Jacinta Price (seen on the left with grandma Tess Napaljarri Ross) desires to