Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Price in 2023
Senator for the Northern Territory
Assumed office
21 May 2022
Preceded bySam McMahon
Mayor of Alice Springs
Acting
7 August 2020  7 September 2020
MayorDamien Ryan
Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs
In office
29 September 2020  28 August 2021
Preceded byJamie DeBrenni
Succeeded byEli Melky
Councillor for the Town of Alice Springs
In office
10 October 2015  28 August 2021
Preceded byLiz Martin
Succeeded byMichael Liddle
Personal details
Born
Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price

(1981-05-12) 12 May 1981
Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
Political partyLiberal (federal; since 2025)
Country Liberal (territory)
Other political
affiliations
National (federal; 2022–2025)
SpouseColin Lillie
Relations
Children3
WebsiteOfficial website

Jacinta Yangapi Nampijinpa Price (Warlpiri pronunciation: [jaŋabi nambiɟ̊inba]; born 12 May 1981) is an Australian politician from the Northern Territory. She has been a senator for the Northern Territory since the 2022 federal election. She is a member of the Country Liberal Party, a conservative party operating in the Northern Territory and affiliated with the LiberalNational Coalition on a federal level. Since May 2025, she sits with the Liberal Party in federal parliament, having formerly sat with the Nationals. She has been the Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs since April 2023, also assuming the position of Shadow Minister for Government Efficiency in the lead up to the 2025 election.

Price has Aboriginal and Anglo-Celtic heritage  her mother is Bess Price, a former politician and Warlpiri woman. Her father is an educator with Irish ancestry. After a career as an entertainer singing, songwriting and hosting a Yamba Playtime children's program on Imparja TV, Price was elected to the Alice Springs Town Council in a by-election in October 2015, with her swearing-in overseen by her mother, who at the time was NT Minister for Local Government. In the 2019 federal election, she unsuccessfully stood for the Country Liberal Party in the Division of Lingiari.

Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by Aboriginal communities, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative Aboriginal politics in Australia. She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a law and order approach. She is critical of welfare dependency and "opportunistic collectivism". She opposed the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and thinks that calls to change Australia Day and the Australian flag are counterproductive to Aboriginal advancement.