Senator Jacinta Price shares photo after grandmothers assault

Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has taken to social media to spread awareness of the violent attack on her elderly grandmother in the Northern Territory.

The graphic photo of Senator Price’s grandmother, who attended her swearing into parliament, shows her neck cut up and bruised after being attacked by a younger woman in Yuendumu.

“This is what life on a community like Yuendumu looks like,” Senator Price wrote.

“She has not been respected or acknowledged as an elder at Yuendumu.

“Her head was split open and she had to be transferred to hospital.”

Senator Price revealed her cousin’s four-year-old son, her grandmother’s great grandchild, had been threatened by older children in the community.

“Imagine a grandmother being violently attacked in front of you in the streets of Mosman, Surry Hills, Brunswick, Northcote, Westend or any other leafy green suburb. Imagine this was your grandmother or your four-year-old son,” Senator Price wrote.

She called for violence in Aboriginal communities to stop, and for Australians to demand better for grandmothers who are “out of sight and out of mind”.

“It’s not good enough that vulnerable Australian women, children and men suffer because their suffering makes a hand full of people feel offended if it’s brought to their attention,” she said.

“It’s not good enough to ignore the maimed and battered because privileged “First Nations” people feel uncomfortable about the reality of black on black violence. Grandstanding over hurt feelings ensures the violence continues.

“I want the violence to STOP! I want communities to be safer! This is EVERYONE’S responsibility!

“You want TRUTH TELLING then start telling the TRUTH! Listen to her VOICE!!!”

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