Jacinta Price has won the top spot on the Country Liberal Party’s Senate house ticket and, if usual electoral patterns repeat themselves, will be sworn in as a parliamentarian sometime after July 1 next year.
Price will be taking her place 51 years after Liberal Neville Bonner became the first Indigenous member of the parliament and as the second female Indigenous Coalition senator after LNPer Joanna Lindgren.
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