Northern Territory Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has announced she will run for the deputy leadership of the Liberal Party.
It comes after the Senator moved from the Nationals to the Liberal party room.
Price will run on a ticket with former Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor.
Here’s what you need to know.
Jacinta Price
Price was elected as a Country Liberal Party (CLP) Senator in 2022. The CLP is one of the smaller parties that makes up the Coalition.
Dutton appointed Price as his Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians ahead of the Voice referendum. Price became a prominent ‘No’ campaigner.
Ahead of the election, she was named the Coalition’s spokesperson on “government efficiency,” echoing the U.S. Government’s department of the same name.
Defection
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As a member of the CLP, Price has the power to decide whether she wants to sit in the Liberal or National Party room.
This is a physical space at Parliament House where party members meet and discuss policy, and hold elections for the party’s leadership.
The Liberals and the Nationals have separate party rooms, despite being in a coalition.
Price sat in the Nationals party room when she was first elected. She will now sit with the Liberals for the second half of her six-year term.
Deputy leader
Over the weekend, Price endorsed Angus Taylor to become leader of the Liberal Party and confirmed she would run as his deputy.
The pair labelled themselves as a “team that’s prepared to get out there and fight”.
Appearing in a video alongside Taylor, Price called him a “mentor” and commended his “experience” in politics.
Taylor hailed Price’s “strength and commitment”.
