Coalition NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is increasing her media presence ahead of the election (you may have seen several stories featuring Price across media outlets recently) and as part of that, she is laying out how she would handle Indigenous affairs, if the Coalition was in government.

I think it comes down to the way in which we collect data, and if the data that we’re collecting isn’t giving us a true indication of what is actually occurring for marginalised, Indigenous Australians, that’s something we need to really think about. The other thing is the fact that there are, of course, many Australians identifying for the first time as Indigenous at an increasing number every year, and this is also a factor that skews the data. I guess the direction that I would hope to be able to go is to identify who our actual marginalised Indigenous Australians are as a priority and a focus in terms of improving their lives. Because I think I’ve always argued that, you know, just just being Indigenous doesn’t automatically make you disadvantaged. It comes down to your circumstances. It comes it often comes down to your geographical place in Australia as well, and these are things that we need to look much closer to if we really want to see the changes occur that we need to to improve the lives of our marginalised people.