Matters of the Heart: The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from one of Australia's most significant...

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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Matters of the Heart

The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from one of Australia's most significant Indigenous...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

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HARPER360
12 February 2025

Autobiography: historical, political & military; Memoirs; Indigenous peoples; Political leaders & leadership; Regional government; Biography - Australian

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The moving story of an Indigenous woman who beat disadvantage and violence to become one of Australia's most influential political voices.

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due to give birth the night she attended her high school formal. With her baby tucked in her arms, she completed year 12 from her hospital bed. Early in their relationship, she took her future husband, Colin, to the Alice Springs morgue to identify the body of a family member who'd been killed.

Nothing about the life of this passionate and steely Warlpiri woman could ever be described as ordinary.

In this remarkable memoir, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price candidly recalls her journey from the remote outback communities of Yuendumu and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory - a young girl with big dreams and the red dust of her ancestors under her fingernails - to the corridors of Canberra and beyond.

Honest, raw and at times heartbreaking, Matters of the Heart is a deeply personal reflection of how a young Indigenous woman, growing up surrounded by violence and tragedy, beat the odds to become one of the most powerful political voices of our time.

'I've been to hell and back, and I've survived.'

By: Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Imprint: HARPER360
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 508g
ISBN: 9781460766767
ISBN 10: 1460766768
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 12 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sue Smethurst is an award-winning author and journalist who has spent more than 20 years working in the media across television, radio and magazines. She was a senior writer with the Australian Women's Weekly, and has written eight books, including Behind Closed Doors, Spartacus and Me, Blood on the Rosary and A Diamond in the Dust. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a political phenomenon. She is CLP Senator for the Northern Territory and the former deputy mayor of Alice Springs. She has been working in the NT for almost two decades to improve the lives of Indigenous Australians, especially in relation to domestic violence, and has never been afraid to take controversial stances that she believes in; for example, as a prominent spokesperson for the 'No' campaign in the lead-up to the recent Voice referendum. She has worked as the Indigenous program director at the Centre for Independent Studies and, in 2015, was elected to the Alice Springs Town Council. In 2022, she was elected as Senator for the Northern Territory, and, since April 2023, has served as the Coalition's Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians.