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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales and Josh Butler

Image emerges of Jacinta Price wearing Maga cap – one day after she says Coalition will ‘make Australia great again’

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in a Maga cap and Colin Lillie in a Santa hat wearing the same slogan, with a Donald Trump Christmas tree ornament
A photo posted to Facebook of Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and her husband Colin Lillie wearing ‘Make America Great Again’ hats on Christmas Day Photograph: Supplied

Coalition politicians have continued to downplay Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s apparent referencing of Donald Trump’s signature Make America Great Again slogan at an election rally, calling it a “slip of the tongue” even as images emerge of the shadow minister and her husband wearing Maga hats just months ago.

The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, called it a “slip of the tongue” when Price, the shadow minister for government efficiency and Indigenous Australians, told a campaign rally she wanted to “make Australia great again” on Saturday. The senator later claimed she hadn’t “even realised” she made the comments, then accused the media of being “obsessed” with the US president.

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