An Aboriginal elder launched an astonishing attack on those who voted no in the Voice referendum while delivering a Welcome to Country speech at a business function.
Katrina Ngaityalya Power on Wednesday stunned the more than 400 guests at a South Australian Industry, Innovation and Science breakfast meeting by telling them they were on ‘stolen’ land.
After being applauded as she made her way to the stage at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Ms Power said she ‘deserved’ a better clap, the Advertiser reported.
In a reference to the scale of the Voice referendum’s defeat, by around 61 per cent to 39 per cent, she said ‘seven in 10 of you’ didn’t want her to ‘have a voice’.
The Kaurna woman also called for King Charles to be ‘dethroned’ and claimed she could ‘understand’ what it was like for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Katrina Ngaityalya Power (pictured) stunned the more than 400 guests at a South Australian Industry, Innovation and Science breakfast meeting by telling them they were on ‘stolen’ land
State Liberal MP Ben Hood, who was at the meeting said it was ‘inappropriate for this kind of highly political commentary to occur at a taxpayer-funded event.’
He added that it was ‘a huge shock that it was warmly welcomed and supported by (Premier Peter) Malinauskas’ Labor ministers.’
It was not the first time Ms Power has made headlines for her contentious views.
In 2017, she made a references to Indigenous ‘slavery’ during her ‘speech of welcome’ at an Anzac Day dawn service in Adelaide.
She also changed the words of the 23rd Psalm to include the phrase ‘walk through the valley of invasion’, which was called ‘insulting and disrespectful’ by some veterans at the service.
After being applauded as she made her way to the stage at the Adelaide Convention Centre, Ms Power (pictured) said she ‘deserved’ a better clap
Ms Power made news again on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018, when she referred to then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull as ‘Malcolm Cows***’.
She refused to apologise at the time, saying ‘I am not at all sorry and if the Prime Minister of Australia wants an apology he can wait 220 years.’
A South Australia government spokesman said of Ms Power’s latest controversy that ‘In our liberal democracy, people are free to express their views.
‘The government does not script or vet the remarks of people delivering a Welcome to Country at government events.’
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