Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Matters of the Heart (eBook, ePUB)

The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from one of Australia's most significant Indigenous voices, for readers of Anh Do, Ash Barty and J.D. Vance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The moving story of an Indigenous woman who beat disadvantage and violence to become one of Australia's most influential political voices.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due to give birth the night she attended her high school formal. With her baby tucked in her arms, she completed year 12 from her hospital bed. Early in their relationship, she took her future husband, Colin, to the Alice Springs morgue to identify the body of a family member who'd been killed.

Nothing about the life of this passionate and steely Warlpiri woman could ever be described as ordinary.

In this remarkable memoir, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price candidly recalls her journey from the remote outback communities of Yuendumu and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory - a young girl with big dreams and the red dust of her ancestors under her fingernails - to the corridors of Canberra and beyond.

Honest, raw and at times heartbreaking, Matters of the Heart is a deeply personal reflection of how a young Indigenous woman, growing up surrounded by violence and tragedy, beat the odds to become one of the most powerful political voices of our time.

'I've been to hell and back, and I've survived.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781460718018
• Artikelnr.: 72298331

Autorenporträt

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a political phenomenon. She is CLP Senator for the Northern Territory and the former deputy mayor of Alice Springs. She has been working in the NT for almost two decades to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, especially in relation to domestic violence, and has never been afraid to take controversial stances that she believes in; for example, as a prominent spokesperson for the 'No' campaign in the lead-up to the recent Voice referendum.

She has worked as the Indigenous program director at the Centre for Independent Studies and, in 2015, was elected to the Alice Springs Town Council. In 2022, she was elected as Senator for the Northern Territory, and, since April 2023, has served as the Coalition's Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians.