Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called on the Prime Minister to condemn the behaviour of an Indigenous advocate who confronted her in an Adelaide hotel.
On Friday, footage showed Senator Price calling Noongar advocate Marianne Headland Mackay a "nobody," in response to Ms Mackay in the lobby of the Intercontinental hotel in Adelaide.
Ms Mackay was attending a health conference in Adelaide as a Noongar community representative.
National Indigenous Times received a video from Senator Price's team late Saturday afternoon, filmed by the senator as she checks in, showing Ms Mackay callling out to Senator Price as hotel staff attempt to escort her from the lobby.
"You can record me because I am not disrespecting you," Ms Mackay can be heard saying, "I am just saying you need to obey law and culture."
Senator Price's voice can be heard in the video, claiming that the incident is a result of Labor and the Prime Minister.
"This is the behaviour that Anthony Albanese has encouraged in this world," she says.
"This is disgraceful behaviour. Thank you, Labor."
Toward the end of the 30-second video, she adds: "This is the kind of conduct I put up with."
In a statement accompanying the video on Saturday, Senator Price said, "As a woman, I should not have to tolerate this kind of behaviour".
She claimed confrontational conduct was "undoubtedly" stoked by the "fire of division" caused by the Prime Minister and the federal government since supporting the Voice referendum in 2023.
"It has become increasingly common and will only get worse as future generations are emboldened by its example and our acceptance of it," Senator Price said.
"Anthony Albanese and his government cannot remain silent about this kind of behaviour, and I call on the Prime Minister to publicly condemn this threatening and aggressive behaviour.
"Any failure of him to do so only increases his existing culpability for this increasing hostility in our nation."
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In the original video, filmed from another angle, Ms Mackay, who was a candidate for the Socialist Alliance in the 2021 WA election, can be heard calling out: "You might be a senator, but you are not respected by your own people. Your own Elders have more respect for me than you."
The Senator can then be seen turning to Ms Mackay and saying, "You're a nobody".
National Indigenous Times has contacted the Prime Minister's office for comment.
Senator Price faced criticism from Noongar groups - from the South West of WA - in the election campaign, who argued her visit to Bunbury was done so without permission from elders.
Noongar community leader Robert Eggington used Facebook to call on other critics of Senator Price to protest her arrival in the city of Bunbury, posting on a Noongar Facebook group: "Need your support Noongar mob. She is not welcome here, and we need to make that very clear."
In response, Senator Price said she wouldn't "stand for intimidation, or bullying, or the weaponisation of cultural reinvention".
"We live in a democratic country where everybody is entitled to an opinion," she said at the time.
