Coalition leader says firebrand NT senator ‘failed to uphold the standards I have set as leader’

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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.

In a statement on Wednesday night, Ley confirmed Price had been dumped from the frontbench after the Country Liberal senator fronted a dramatic press conference in Perth earlier in the day.

Source: Guardian - World News