The shadow cabinet has been reshuffled following Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's axing , with Sussan Ley announcing the promotion of two backbenchers today.

Western Australian MP Melissa Price was announced as the new Shadow Minister for Defence Industry and Shadow Minister for Defence Personnel, taking over from Senator Price.

The Northern Territory senator, who had defected from the Nationals to the Liberals after May's Federal election, was forced to resign from her position in the shadow cabinet last week after refusing to apologise for comments made about Indian Australians.

Senator Price had claimed the federal government was allowing more migrants in from India to skew votes towards Labor, comments which drew sharp criticism from members of her own party such as Alex

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