Shadow Indigenous Australians minister did not directly answer when asked whether she was comfortable with Johns staying as a leading no campaign figure
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has stopped short of endorsing controversial anti-voice campaigner Gary Johns, abruptly ending a press conference and saying she didn’t want to “get into the weeds” when asked about his comments, which have drawn widespread condemnation.
Johns, the president of the Recognise A Better Way group, which was set up by another key anti-voice campaigner, Warren Mundine, claimed in a speech at a CPAC conference last month that some people in Indigenous communities lived in a “stupor” and recommended they “learn English”. Johns also recently came under scrutiny for suggesting Indigenous people should take blood tests to access Aboriginal welfare programs.
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