Every once in a while a new MP’s arrival in Canberra sends a shockwave through the Parliament and out into the wider nation.
This happened again on the evening of July 27, 2022, when Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stood up in the Senate to deliver her first speech.
It was a speech that was, in her own words, “for all Australians”.
Describing herself as “an empowered Walpiri Celtic Australian woman” and wearing traditional headdress, the new Country Liberal Party senator from the Nor…