A senior Liberal insists “knives are not being sharpened” for leader Sussan Ley despite a messy dispute over immigration and the demotion of the Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price .

Ley sought to calm the situation in Hobart on Thursday, apologising to Indian Australians and acknowledging Price’s inflammatory comments about Indian migrants had left them hurt and distressed.

She stopped short of predicting a return to the frontbench for Price. The rules of political gravity have set in for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – but the Coalition is still in a dangerous limbo Read more

“Jacinta is a valued member of our Liberal party team in our Liberal party room and I know [she] has contributed much in public policy and debate in this country, and will continue to do so,”

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