Australian news live: Jacinta Price denies First Nations people ever at war with colonists as Burney hits out at ‘betrayal’

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Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney said comments made by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price that there were no negative ongoing impacts of British colonisation had caused great distress.

Speaking in Kogarah while handing out flyers for the Yes campaign, Burney said the comments were “offensive and a real betrayal”.

There are many people I’ve spoken to last night, this morning, that are very distressed and quite frankly, pretty disgusted. But I am going to focus on the goal here and that is a successful referendum.

We either accept that people have a broad range of views, or we don’t. The left just say, well, we can only listen to people like Marcia Langton, but people on the right, like Jacinta Price, we can’t listen to.

I would recommend you to go and have a look at the full speech in the question and answer session that she had yesterday, because you’ve got somebody on display who is brave, prepared to stand up for what she believes in and believes passionately about making the better society for Indigenous Australians.