I'm not particularly well informed as to the plight of first nations peoples, but my understanding was that their interests are better aligned with progressive parties with social policies.

From her wiki:

Price's activism and views focus primarily on issues faced by Aboriginal communities, and she is a vocal advocate for conservative Aboriginal politics in Australia. She has highlighted the high rates of domestic and other violence in Aboriginal communities, and advocates for a law and order approach. She is critical of welfare dependency and "opportunistic collectivism". She opposed the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and thinks that calls to change Australia Day and the Australian flag are counterproductive to Aboriginal advancement.

All of these positions are more or less the opposite of the positions I would expect aboriginal people to take up.

The best I can surmise, is that her views are indeed a rarity amongst First Nations People, and because of that she's a highly desirable member for conservative parties to kind of have their policies "blessed" by a token First Nations Woman.

Is it really that simple? Or am I missing something ?

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[–] Tau@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Why would you expect Aboriginal people to all vote as a bloc? Nobody does that, regardless of heritage. Expecting them all to vote left wing because you think it would progress their interests is in the same line as someone from the right expecting all white people to vote for them to preserve perceived privileges.

We don't even have have such a clear political split in groups which would gain direct benefit from progressive parties such as welfare recipients. You'd think that would make for a clear choice between the party that wants to either keep or increase your source of money and the party that wants to cut it, but there's a lot who still vote conservative either because they believe something else in that side of politics is more important or they simply don't care enough to think through the ramifications.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not expecting Aboriginal people to all vote as a bloc, I'm expecting an Aboriginal member with (I strongly suspect) the highest number of Aboriginal constituents of any member, to represent the interests of her constituents.

So for example, I expected the majority of her constituents to be in favor of the voice to parliament, but she was not.

However, I freely admit that there's something going on here that I just don't understand, which is why I have posed the question.