Prominent conservatives are rallying around Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as she faces mounting internal and external pressure to apologise for comments about Indian migrants.

The Victorian Liberal senator Sarah Henderson, the Nationals senator Matt Canavan and Victorian state Liberal MP Moira Deeming have all issued public statements of support for Price, further exposing divisions inside the Coalition as the saga continues.

The statements came as the Liberal leader, Sussan Ley , stopped short of calling on Price to apologise despite a growing number of Coalition MPs and the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, urging the Northern Territory senator to do so.

Senior Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie – Price’s former party room colleague – joined the former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce an

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