Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has accused fellow Liberal Party MP Alex Hawke of inappropriate conduct and berating her staff, and claimed her own party does not stand up for women mistreated by their colleagues.

The Northern Territory Senator made the claims about Hawke, a Liberal powerbroker, in an extensive Facebook post on Sunday morning after Sky News reported he had told Price to distance herself from inflammatory claims about Indian immigration she made on the ABC last Wednesday .

In the ABC interview, Price said the federal government was bringing in migrants “from particular countries over others” to win votes, naming the “Indian community” as an example. She later clarified that Australia’s migration policy was non-discriminatory and “suggestions otherwise are a mistake”,

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