Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price should apologise to Indian Australians for her remarks suggesting more Indian migrants were being brought to Australia because they were Labor leaning.

In what is becoming a test for Opposition Leader Sussan Ley, colleagues have pressured her to make an apology for Senator Nampijinpa Price, who defected to the Liberals just months ago to run against her as Liberal deputy under Angus Taylor.

This morning, as the issue roils within the Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General Julian Leeser took to social media to make an apology on behalf of his colleague — in the absence of one from either Ms Ley or the NT senator herself.

"[It] pains me to say it, but I feel like I have to say it. My colleague Jacinta Price said

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