The independent senator has promised she won't remain silent as she fights for First Nations people in the lead up to the referendum.
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00:00 Well, this is what you wanted. You wanted to shut me down.
00:07 This building behind us is where it all began in 1901.
00:16 The racist constitution came out of this building.
00:22 It's caused nothing but pain and misery for my people in this country.
00:33 The referendum is an act of genocide against my people
00:44 and the Prime Minister knows exactly what he's doing.
00:51 He wants the fascists to come out and get me.
00:57 That's what he wants.
01:01 Because his violent force that he has sent to protect me
01:15 can't even protect me.
01:19 I refuse to protect the black sovereign woman
01:24 because the police are part of the problem in this country
01:30 and I can't ring Triple O.
01:35 I can't rely on Victoria Police after they kill my people.
01:45 So where is my support?
01:51 Where is my protection in this country?
01:55 You want to paint me as an angry black woman?
01:58 Well, you are about to see an angry black woman
02:02 because I am not hiding this time.
02:05 I've been in exile for four months.
02:09 Four months I wasn't allowed to be in my own home
02:14 because people want to kill me out there.
02:18 They don't want my voice to be heard over the next nine days.
02:24 They want to feel good about the referendum.
02:29 The referendum to assimilate our people into their constitution.
02:40 So what do they do? They send the fascists.
02:47 Only two have been arrested after two years.
02:55 Two years! I'm not waiting two years for the latest fascist violence to come at me.
03:04 I've hired my own black army
03:09 and this parliament has to pay for the black army.
03:13 Not the army that continues to violate black women and black men in this country.
03:21 I don't trust your army. I only trust my own.
03:31 So I'm not hiding for the next nine days.
03:36 You're going to hear from me and you are going to see me
03:40 and I am not scared.
03:42 I am ready to fight for exactly what I went into parliament for
03:47 and that is my country, my people
03:53 and I won't stop.
03:56 And I'm not scared.
03:59 So come at me!
04:01 [cheering]
04:05 [cheering]
04:06 [BLANK_AUDIO]