Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been dumped from the Opposition front bench after just four months in the role — and four months with the Liberal Party — over her attacks on Indian migrants.
Price, who was one of the nation’s most prominent campaigners against the Indigenous Voice, has been stood down after repeatedly refusing to apologise for her comments.
Last week Price told the ABC the Federal Labor Government was allowing “large numbers” of Indian people to migrate to Australia because the Indian community “votes for Labor”.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said “serving in the Shadow Ministry” was a “privilege” and members were “expected to uphold the standards I have set as leader”.
“Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has failed to do so and will no longer serve in my Shadow Ministry,” said Ley in a statement this evening.
“Today, despite being given sufficient time and space to do so, Senator Nampijinpa Price failed to apologise for remarks which have caused Australians of Indian heritage significant hurt.”
Price only been with the Liberal Party since the May federal election, opting to depart the National Party and sit with the Liberals just days after the May Federal election.
“She (Price) also refused to provide confidence in my leadership of the Liberal Party” – Sussan Ley
Jacinta Price and her husband Colin Lillie at Christmas. Source: Facebook
The Liberal and National Coalition was defeated in a landslide, and Ley promised an overhaul.
The Opposition leader had come under intense scrutiny in recent days for refusing to stand Price down.
Ley said Price had also “refused to provide confidence in my leadership”.
“She (Price) also refused to provide confidence in my leadership of the Liberal Party and sadly, that has made her position untenable,” Ley said.
“The Liberal Party I lead will respect, reflect and represent modern Australia.”
“The Liberal Party I lead will respect, reflect and represent modern Australia” – Sussan Ley
Jacinta Price, with fellow anti-indigenous Voice campaigner Warren Mundine, and Pauline Hanson (L-R). Source: Twitter/x
Price had transferred to the Liberal Party to run as deputy leader of Opposition, with former Federal Treasurer Angus Taylor as Opposition Leader.
Taylor lost to Ley, who secured the role by a slim margin of party room votes, and at the last minute Price pulled her candidacy.
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Jacinta Price’s was a key player in the Coalition’s “MAGA” push. Source: The Klaxon
Price is a prominent member of the Coalition’s far-right, which fights against action on climate change and has heavily embraced Donald Trump-style “MAGA” politics.
During the election campaign, standing beside then Opposition leader Peter Dutton, Price announced her desire to “make Australia great again”.
The pronouncement was widely viewed as further cruelling the Coalition’s already poor chances of being elected, with many voters turned off by MAGA and the actions of Trump and the right-wing US Republican Party.
On Tuesday both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and National Party leader called on Price to apologise.
She refused to do so.
More to come….
