Who is Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and how did she become a central player in the voice referendum?

‘I personally have had more than my fill of being symbolically recognised,’ Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is a leading figure in the no campaign for the referendum for an Indigenous voice to parliament. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The meteoric rise of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from small-town deputy mayor to central player in Australia’s first referendum in a generation has continued with her elevation into the shadow cabinet after less than a year as a senator.

The Northern Territory senator will steer the no campaign against the Indigenous voice from inside and outside the federal parliament, combining her role as leader of the Advance conservative lobby group’s campaign with her new title as shadow minister for Indigenous Australians.