Shadow Indigenous Australians Minister Kerrynne Liddle has spoken for the first time since her colleague Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was dumped from the frontbench, saying the pair is "on a unity ticket" when it comes to Indigenous affairs.
Senator Nampijinpa Price, in her resignation statement last week , flagged she would continue to speak out from the backbench on Indigenous issues.
"The plight of those in remote communities, the ongoing romanticisation of traditional culture that inhibits addressing the root causes of Indigenous violence today," Senator Nampijinpa Price said.
"The ineffectiveness of bloated bureaucracies that have done nothing to 'close the gap', and the need to push back against activists who, ignoring the referendum outcome and the will of the Australian people, ma