Matters of the Heart
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Matters of the Heart
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Narrated by:
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John Howard
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Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
About this listen
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.'
©2025 Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (P)2025 HarperCollins PublishersWhat listeners say about Matters of the Heart
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- Anonymous User
- 17-02-2025
Warts and all story
Great story. Well read... and, i think this may be only the beginning of her story.
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- Andrew Hickey
- 19-02-2025
Amazing person and story
We're fortunate to have a person like Jacinta involved in Australian politics. A person not afraid to tell it how she sees it and then goes a step further to back up what she says, with practical an well thought out plans and strategies to genuinely try to improve other peoples lives.
It's an entertaining and really well written story, which I looked forward to listening to every spare minute I had, well done!
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