Indigenous Senator Jacinta Price has reflected on her maiden speech where she detailed failings in indigenous policy over successive governments.

Speaking to Liam Bartlett on 6PR Mornings, the incoming Northern Territory Senator said she lamented the way in which indigenous people were viewed.

“The attempts at putting advisory bodies have failed over the years,” Senator Price said on 6PR Mornings.

“So why do they keep trying to reinvent the wheel, or try to do the same thing over again and expect a different result.

“We’ve got to stop diving us along the lines of race.

“We don’t do it for anybody else, and we shouldn’t do it with indigenous Australians.

“We should serve Australians on the basis of need, no matter what our backgrounds are, and that’s how we should be tackling some of our tough issues.”

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