Racism row: Marcia Langton's past remarks come back to haunt her
Prominent āYesā campaigner and co-author of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Professor Marcia Langton has complained loudly about racism from opponents of the Voice.
But it was revealed this week that she had once published a newspaper article calling fellow indigenous colleague Senator Jacinta Price and her mother the ācoloured helpā.
The newspaper column was published in The Saturday Paper in 2018.
In the column headlined "The folly of Jacinta Price", LangtonĀ describedĀ the shadow Indigenous affairs minister and her mother, a former Northern Territory cabinet minister, as "useful coloured help" representing conservatives.
āBess and Jacinta (Price) have become the useful coloured help in rescuing the racist image of these conservative outfits,"Ā she wrote.
She claimed that āthe majorityā of Senator Priceās social media followers were āthe rabid racists who claim to support a pro-Aboriginal cause by backing the aspirantās bizarre political agendaā.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton slammed Langtonās comments after they surfaced on Thursday.
āWell itās not an off-the-cuff remark or something she said in passing that she now regrets this is a common theme over a long period of time,"Ā he told Sydney radio.
āAnd thereās something in the motivation that I guess we donāt know about, but itās certainly very bitter and vitriolic.
āAnd it deserves further examination too⦠Because Marcia Langtonās likely to be one of the people who will form the body of the Voice.
āI suppose Australians have got to ask themselves between now and October 14 whether somebody like Marcia Langton as part of the Voice, and advising government on every issue that the governmentās contemplating, whether or not thatās going to help Indigenous people in remote communities.ā
