Affirmative Action Removes Individual Agency: Indigenous Senator

Indigenous academic Anthony Dillon (L), Northern Territory senator Jacinta Price (C) and Indigenous leader Warren Mundine (R) spoke at CPAC Australia in Sydney, on Oct. 1, 2022. Horace Young/The Epoch Times

Framing Aboriginal Australians as victims removes responsibility from themselves as an individual rather than helping them flourish, says an Indigenous Australian senator.  

Jacinta Price, new Country Liberal Party senator for Northern Territory, told The Epoch Times on Oct. 1 that such an approach creates the expectation that the “perceived oppressor,” who is white Australians in this case, is “responsible to empower you.”