Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s fury as her phone number is shared online and she is bombarded with vile abuse after ‘Vote No’ text
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s anger as her phone number is shared online and she is bombarded with vile abuse after ‘Vote No’ text
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s personal mobile number has been circulated on Twitter, prompting Yes voters to bombard her with nasty messages.
The leading No campaigner and Country Liberal senator has been inundated with texts from trolls, at a time when tensions over the Voice to Parliament are at an all-time high.
She told the National Press Club on Thursday that she was bombarded with “the most disgusting messages, voicemail messages you could imagine.”
“From the moment the referendum was launched by our Prime Minister, our nation has been divided. We have seen ugliness across the board.
“I know that I, Warren Mundine, have been the subject of terrible racial slurs… I am no stranger to terrible, terrible abuse.
“I condemn all the appalling behavior that has been exposed as a result.”
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s personal cell number has been spread on Twitter, prompting Yes voters to bombard her with nasty messages
Her Senate colleague James Paterson denounced the tactic Thursday morning on X, formerly known as Twitter.
He said: “The leaking of a prominent Indigenous woman’s private contact details during a divisive referendum debate is irresponsible and dangerous.
“The Yes campaign needs to tell their supporters to stop sharing (Senator Price’s) phone number. & condemn the horrific abuse she suffered.”
Online, trolls boast about contacting her on her personal number.
Others argued that Ms Nampijinpa Price’s contact details were readily available on a separate website before being distributed through X.
The backlash appeared to have been sparked after thousands of Australians received an unsolicited text message urging them to vote ‘No to the vote’.
The messages read: ‘Hi, this is Jacinta Price, the referendum is on October 14th. This voice is risky, unknown and divisive. Do not you know? Say no.’
Ms Nampijinpa Price revealed on Sky on Wednesday night that she has received death threats over her public stance on The Voice.
The text message urged recipients to vote no in the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum
“I’ve had a barrage of horrible messages today calling me an a**t and a b-word and all sorts of things still on my phone,” Ms Nampijinpa Price said.
‘But it says more about who they are, not about me.
“I carry the target on my back because that’s what they need. Because if I don’t do well, who else is going to do it? People might be afraid of being called racist – well, I’ll face death threats.’
On Thursday, Ms Nampijinpa Price stood before the National Press Club to deliver an empathetic speech about her vision for Australia after the referendum.
She said she was called a “sellout” and subjected to racist abuse and threats of violence simply because she “wanted to prevent children from being abused.”
‘Because I want to prevent women and men from being murdered. The truth is that despite all the moral pretenses and virtue signaling about telling the truth, there is no real appetite in Canberra to tell the truth or hear the truth.”