Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has criticised her Liberal colleague Alex Hawke for “cowardly and inappropriate” conduct against her staff while accusing “agenda-driven” media for taking her comments against the Indian community out of context.

It followed Sussan Ley’s appearance on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday, where the opposition leader vowed Price’s comments on Indian migration would not “not be repeated” but side-stepped offering an apology on the senator’s behalf.

In a social media post on Sunday, Price accused Hawke, who was immigration minister in the Morrison government, of berating her staff on Wednesday shortly after she had appeared on the ABC to claim Labor was bringing Indian migrants into Australia to boost its electoral chances .

Price alleged Hawke told her staff that she “may e

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