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Matters of the heart : a memoir
Price, Jacinta Nampijinpa2025
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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.
Main title:
Matters of the heart : a memoir / Jacinta Nampijinpa Price with Sue Smethurst.
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Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers, 2025.
Collation:
xv, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, colour portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Foreword by Hon John Howard AC" --Cover.Cultural sensitivity advisory notice: Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other First Nations people are advised that this item may contain names, recordings, images, photographs, illustrations and text of deceased people and other content that may be culturally sensitive.
ISBN:
9781460766767 (paperback)
Dewey class:
324.2092 PRI324.2092
Language:
English
Subject:
Price, Jacinta NampijinpaIndigenous peoples -- Australia -- BiographyWomen politicians -- Australia -- BiographyPoliticians -- Australia -- BiographyAboriginal Australians -- BiographyWarlpiri (Australian people) -- BiographyWomen, Aboriginal Australian -- BiographyWarlpiri language C15History - Biographies - Indigenous - AutobiographiesPolitics and Government - Politicians - Parliamentarians - Indigenous representationMilikapiti / Snake Bay (Melville Island NT SC52-16)Yuendumu (South Central NT SF52-12)Mparntwe / Alice Springs (South Central NT SF53-14)Autobiographies
BRN:
99205
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