Colin Lillie speaks out on faith, family, freedom and fighting cancel culture. Colin Lillie is an award-wining songwriter and musician and the husband of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

Colin Lillie is a man committed to faith, family and freedom. In that order. Speaking with The Daily Declaration, he said it wasn’t always that way. The talented musician (who is married to rising conservative star Jacinta Price) was born in Scotland. He’s also been in recovery for the past 18 years. Describing himself as a “Scozy” (Scottish Australian), Lillie testified to falling out with God, falling in with a bad crowd, and using alcohol to self-medicate trauma from an abusive past.
He credits God with righting the ship.
Raised in the church, he warmly recalled the experience as giving him time to breathe.
After his family had moved away from that Christian community, Lillie described a time of spiritual searching. Yet “nothing,” he shared, “seemed to ever fit.”
Discussing recovery and rediscovering the “connection with his higher power”, Lillie said, “I may have left God. He never left me.”
Almost two decades sober, he then recounted that reconnecting with Christ didn’t happen overnight. It took time.
While his Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step sponsor was a great man of faith, Lillie says he resisted the Christian concept of surrender as weakness.
It was only when he realised that God was the sole agent responsible for his salvation that Lillie put his broken life completely into God’s hands. With the sinner’s prayer in hand, Lillie turned his eyes towards the cross and asked God to turn his life around. This came complete with a desperate moment involving a river and the somewhat comical image of Lillie being kicked awake by an old Indigenous woman. Recalling his journey, Lillie said he “committed to doing whatever it took to change.”
His big three commitments today are: 1. Sobriety 2. Jacinta 3. Citizenship. In other words: faith, family and freedom.
Also big on the family list are his sons. “I’m proud of all my boys, Lillie shared, “and what incredible young men they’re becoming.” One of whom, he said, “became a strong Christian after doing the Alpha Course.” To this, Lillie asserted, “We need to remind boys and young men that they are very important in building a better tomorrow.”
The Gift of Music and Giving Glory to God
Letting God back into his life also unlocked Lillie’s vocation. With the gift of being sober came the gift of music. This gift, he explained, gave him a way “to speak truth in a way he never felt able to.” Talking further about his music career, Lillie told The Daily Declaration that music and testimony are “the best ways to communicate with people.”
As such, he now searches out opportunities to speak at rehabs. What grounds him is the Word, and a firm conviction that “You never stop learning.” One of those bigger lessons, he added, was learning that “You cannot stop God from being in your life once you’ve opened your heart to him.” Adamant, Lillie made it clear that he takes no credit for how far he’s come since then. Nor does he take credit for the family he has today. All that credit he hands back to God.
“When we follow Christ,” Lillie stated, “we are asked to examine our own hearts.” The goal is to be a good man, he added. That can only happen “by cultivating a relationship with God.”


