Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has moved to repair relations with Indian Australians after Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price suggested the government was favouring the community for immigration because they tended to vote Labor.

Ley on Friday sent video messages to the Indian diaspora and has also been distributing videos on Chinese social platform WeChat months after Senator Jane Hume caused controversy by mentioning “Chinese spies” just before election day.

“You contribute as Australian Indians so much to our country,” Ley said in the video. “We know how hard you work, your family values, and the contribution you make across this country, and as opposition leader I value that incredibly.”

Ley, whose office pushed Price into reversing her statement shortly after she made it on

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