Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she doesn’t need to apologise for falsely claiming Labor is deliberately bringing Indian migrants to Australia to stack votes, and points to the ABC’s questioning to explain why she made the inflammatory remarks.

Price falsely claimed on the ABC’s Afternoon Briefing program on Wednesday that the federal government was focused on bringing in migrants “from particular countries over others” and named the “Indian community”.

Within an hour of the national broadcast, the Coalition’s defence industry spokeswoman had walked back her comments , issuing a statement that said: “Australia maintains a longstanding and bipartisan non-discriminatory migration policy. Suggestions otherwise are a mistake.”

Her freelancing created a headache for Opposit

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