Monday 8 August 2022 12:49 AM Jacinta Price, Peter FitzSimons: Feud erupts over Sun-Herald interview trends now

Monday 8 August 2022 12:49 AM Jacinta Price, Peter FitzSimons: Feud erupts over Sun-Herald interview trends now
Monday 8 August 2022 12:49 AM Jacinta Price, Peter FitzSimons: Feud erupts over Sun-Herald interview trends now

Monday 8 August 2022 12:49 AM Jacinta Price, Peter FitzSimons: Feud erupts over Sun-Herald interview trends now

Aboriginal senator Jacinta Price has accused author and journalist Peter FitzSimons of being 'rude and aggressive' to her during an interview.  

In a piece published on Sunday, Ms Price to FitzSimons spoke about her staunch opposition to the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which he strongly supports. 

In a social media post published on Sunday, the Country Liberal Party senator wrote that 'I don't know if I'd do another interview with the bloke again. He accused me of giving racists a voice but that wasn't printed.' 

FitzSimons denies her characterisation of how the interview went and says her claims are 'complete and utter ... nonsense'. 

Aboriginal senator Jacinta Price accused author and journalist Peter FitzSimons of being 'rude and aggressive' to her in a telephone interview conducted last week

Aboriginal senator Jacinta Price accused author and journalist Peter FitzSimons of being 'rude and aggressive' to her in a telephone interview conducted last week

In the since deleted post on Facebook, Ms Price claimed the interview with FitzSimons last Thursday started out well, but claimed that he became 'aggressive ... condescending and rude' to her.

She said it 'was like talking to a brick wall' and that she felt 'insulted'.

'I'm not a wilting violet but he's a very aggressive bloke, his interview style is very bloody aggressive, he doesn't need to launch in,' she said.

'Accusing me of somehow giving power to racists because the issues I raise are confronting – he loses the point completely.

'I said to him, "Get down from the bloody ivory tower and come out to one of my communities".'

FitzSimons strongly refuted Ms Price's claims. The interview was a 'professional exchange', he said. 

'Every single word recorded, as I told her,' FitzSimons told The Australian's Media Diary.

He said the interview was conducted without a raised voice and that Ms Price approved the final story.

'This is not remotely a matter of interpretation. Friendly interview, nice text exchange at its conclusion,' he said. 

Peter FitzSimons (right) is pictured with his wife, television presenter Lisa Wilkinson, in 2016

Peter FitzSimons (right) is pictured with his wife, television presenter Lisa Wilkinson, in 2016

Senator Price said she was shocked by FitzSimons' stance on Indigenous issues.

'I was really taken aback and I was exhausted by the energy it took having to defend myself. 

'I was made to feel as though what I was trying to do is wrong and my voice is not as legitimate as those who purport to suffer from 250 years of colonisation,' she said.

Daily Mail Australia contacted both Ms Price and FitzSimons for comment. 

In the interview published in Nine newspapers, Ms Price has accused supporters of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament of buying into 'racial stereotypes'.

She had also used her maiden speech to parliament on July 27 to rail against the concept of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament and a proposed referendum to enshrine it in the constitution. 

Ms Price told FitzSimons the broad bipartisan support for the Voice is a result of too many Australians 'drinking the Kool-Aid' and not listening to a silent majority of Aboriginals. 

Instead of being a unifying voice to promote Indigenous issues, she claimed it would be just another layer of bureaucracy that would divide her people from white Australia and assume they would always be 'victims'.

Senator Price also defended another bitter critic of the Voice, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson, as someone who 'cares deeply for Indigenous Australians'.

This came after Senator Hanson stormed out of the upper house rather than sit through an acknowledgement to country. 

Ms Price said travelling around the world with her teacher parents  - Indigenous mother and white father - when she was 13 opened her eyes 'to how we're all human'.

Senator Price said she became politically active when she observed 'narratives about indigenous Australians' she didn't agree with

 Senator Price said she became politically active when she observed 'narratives about indigenous Australians' she didn't agree with

She said she was too busy for politics when she was young as she had her first baby when she 17 and two more by the time

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