Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Price has written that her mother was "born under a tree and lived within an original Warlpiri structured environment through a kinship system on Aboriginal land. Her first language was Warlpiri, and her parents, my grandparents, only came into contact with white settlers in their early adolescence in the 1940s."

She travelled widely with her family as a child, camping in the bush on swags.

By the age of seven she had visited every Australian state and, by 12, had travelled around the world.

Price is a NAIDOC Award-winning singer, songwriter and recording artist.

As a child, she learned the violin before joining local hip-hop groups Flava 4 and C-Mobs.

Her parents met in Yuendumu in 1976, working at the local school; David as a teacher in the bilingual program, while Bess was producing Warlpiri literacy materials.

Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price (born 12 May 1981) is an Australian politician from the Northern Territory.

She has been a senator for the Northern Territory since the 2022 federal election.

She is a member of the Country Liberal Party, a politically conservative party operating in the Northern Territory affiliated with the national Coalition.

She sits with the National Party in federal parliament.

She has been the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs since April 2023.

Price has Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic heritage – her mother is Warlpiri community leader and former politician Bess Price, her father an educator with Irish ancestry.

Price was born on 12 May 1981 in Darwin, Northern Territory, and grew up in Alice Springs.

Her father, David Price, is of Anglo-Celtic descent and was born in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Her mother, Bess Price, who served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, is a Warlpiri woman.

In 2001, she was chosen to sing the national anthem for the Yeperenye Federation Festival.

Bess Price is a fellow member of the CLP, who served as a minister in the Adam Giles NT Government, holding portfolios including housing and statehood, and was a vocal supporter of the Howard government's 2007 Northern Territory Intervention, that implemented new legislation in response to the crises facing Aboriginal communities.

In 2013, she released her first music album Dry River, a mix of folk, soul and country music, paying tribute to her life growing up in Central Australia.

Triple J likened her sound to that of Tracy Chapman, while Land Rights News described her sound as a blend of folk, blues and country which "reflects her Aboriginal/Celtic heritage".

The album was produced by Bill Chambers and Colin Lillie.

Within the music industry, Price developed the Desert Divas program, which nurtures female Indigenous musical talent.

Price also had a TV career in the children's television program, Yamba's Playtime, where she played the best friend of the lead character Yamba the Honey Ant.

Price is in addition a regular guest on Sky News Australia.

After a career as a singer-songwriter, she was a councillor for Alice Springs between 2015 and August 2021, serving as deputy mayor in her last year as councillor.

Price was elected as a councillor on the Alice Springs Town Council in 2015.

At her swearing in to the Alice Springs council in 2015, Price's mother Bess Price officiated, as NT Minister for Local Government.

She served until August 2021, when she did not stand for re-election.

She was also the Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs in her last year as councillor.

Despite saying she was committed to the Alice Springs Town Council, she left the council six months into her four-year term, triggering a by-election.

Price shared a close relationship with fellow councillor Jamie di Brenni, and agreed with him on most issues.

She said in a 2017 interview that her values aligned with generally "with the old white fellas" on the council; however, she was against fracking as there is a potential risk to water sources from this practice.

Price said that council had not done enough to combat the disproportionate amount of violence against women seen in Alice Springs, and she would like to see more campaigning on the issue.

She had called a forum with women, including town camp residents, to discuss community needs and antisocial behaviour.

She had also worked with the council's Youth Action Group, and had championed recreational and creative opportunities for youth in the town.

During this time, in 2019 she stood unsuccessfully for the Division of Lingiari at the 2019 federal election.

Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by Aboriginal communities, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative Aboriginal politics in Australia.

She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a law and order approach.

She is critical of welfare dependency and "opportunistic collectivism".

She opposed the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and thinks that calls to change Australia Day and the Australian Flag are counterproductive to Aboriginal advancement.

Price stood unsuccessfully, as the Country Liberal Party candidate, for the Division of Lingiari at the 2019 federal election.