Ley dumps Nampijinpa Price from shadow ministry over refusal to back leadership or apologise for migration comments

Coalition leader says firebrand Northern Territory senator ‘failed to uphold the standards I have set’

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Sussan Ley has sacked Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the shadow ministry after the firebrand senator refused to express support for the Liberal leader or apologise for her comments about Indian migrants.

Ley said Price’s frontbench position had become “untenable” after the Country Liberal senator fronted a dramatic press conference in Perth earlier in the day.