Right-leaning MPs rally around Nampijinpa Price as she resists calls to apologise to Indian Australians

But Liberals say party has ‘degenerated into open warfare’ over the issue and accuse NT senator of pushing her own agenda

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Prominent conservatives are rallying around Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as she faces mounting internal and external pressure to apologise for comments about Indian migrants.

The Victorian Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, the Nationals senator Matt Canavan and Victorian state Liberal MP Moira Deeming have all issued public statements of support for Price, further exposing divisions inside the Coalition as the saga continues.