Media power couple

Media power couple and might yearn to unite black and white Australians — but they are not even on speaking terms with two of the nation’s most significant Indigenous figures.     and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price are prominent and polarising Indigenous voices with contrasting views on how to improve the lives of First Nations people.Grant, who stood down last month as host of Q+A amid a torrent of racist abuse, supports the Voice to Parliament.

Price, the shadow Indigenous affairs minister, is against it. What they have in common is that neither will be enjoying the hospitality of Wilkinson and FitzSimons at their multimillion-dollar home overlooking Harbour anytime soon. The former The Project host and her author husband have long positioned themselves as champions of racial reconciliation, famously shifting their exclusive Australia Day barbecue from January 26.But while comfortably ensconced in their Cremorne mansion with its pool and tennis court, Wilkinson has been accused of virtue signalling and FitzSimons of embodying white privilege.  Lisa Wilkson has been accused of virtue signalling and her husband Peter FitzSimons of embodying white privilege while comfortably ensconced in their harbourside mansion FitzSimons and Grant fell out two years ago when the ABC journalist mocked the Sydney Morning Herald columnist and his wife for their Australia Day gatherings, which he called a ‘woke leftie love-in’.FitzSimons and Price had a public feud last August after he claimed she held positions ‘completely at odds’ with much of the Indigenous community.Now Wilkinson has earned Price’s ire after the one-time magazine editor compared her preselection as an Aboriginal candidate for the Senate to a white family ‘hiring a black cleaner’.Wilkinson was recorded struggling to pronounce Price’s full name during a five-hour pre-record for The Project with Brittany Higgins, her partner David Sharaz and Channel Ten producer Angus Llewellyn in January 2021.That meeting occurred weeks before Higgins claimed in an interview with Wilkinson that she had been raped in Parliament House by fellow political staffer Bruce Lehrmann in 2019.Lehrmann, who has always denied that allegation, faced a trial which was aborted due to juror misconduct in October last year. Lisa Wilkinson has compared the preselection of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (above) as an Aboriginal candidate for the Senate to a white family ‘hiring a black cleaner’ During the January 2021 meeting, Wilkinson and Sharaz named politicians who might add weight to Higgins’s accusations and highlight a perceived culture of misogyny within the federal Coalition.'[The Liberal Party] has preselected over 20 new and wonderfully diverse and strong female candidates like, and what’s her name, Nam… Nampinjumba?’ Wilkinson said in the audio clip obtained by Daily Mail Australia.’She’s an Indigenous woman.’ Sharaz then laughed and penipu said: ‘She clearly got in. Clearly it was a safe seat.’Wilkinson: ‘That’s the thing, it was — as soon as I looked at it I thought, «Oh, you’re joking».’Sharaz: ‘They’ve been preselected in unwinnable seats.’Llewellyn then joked about the Coalition preselecting Price, saying ‘See, we know brown people’, before Sharaz joined in.’It’s like, «I’m not racist, I have a black friend,»‘ he said.

‘It’s that argument.’Llewellyn: ‘I don’t have his number, though.’Wilkinson: ‘And our cleaner’s black.’Llewellyn: ‘I don’t have his number, but he knows me.’  FitzSimons is a multi-millionaire author of books on Australian history and political leftie who  wants to change Australia Day from January 26.

He is pictured with wife Lisa Wilkinson Price told 2GB presenter Ben Fordham on Friday she deserved an apology for the ‘derogatory’ comments from Wilkinson, who she accused of virtue signalling.’What would you expect from individuals that belong to the woke class?’ she said.‘I mean, Channel Ten — The Project — haver never been in interested in certainly the view of a conservative indigenous woman from outback Australia.<div class="art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news" data-version="2" id="mol-1fb3c970-0684-11ee-bfe3-0f114598ae23" website Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons v Stan Grant and Jacinta Price