Jacinta Price sacked from Liberal frontbench by Sussan Ley

At a press conference before his ax, Price acknowledged that his comments to ABC were “absolutely incompetent ,, but he acknowledged that he would not be silenced about“ mass migration .. He did not apologize despite the repeated calls from his colleagues, but thanked his supporters.

Price later rejected Ley’s leadership three times to say whether he supported his leadership by saying, “These issues are for our party room”.

Ley said he was looking for Price soon. The opposition leader was on Wednesday night, “My call to him, to give advice about my decision and to critically refused to express the confidence in the leadership of the liberal party today,” he said.

“Trust to the leader is a requirement to serve at the Ministry of Shadow.”

Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, a leading supporter of Price, said, “I will be a major loss for the front womb, but I am sure that it will continue to make a strong contribution to our public life ..

Price promised to continue talking from Backbench, but Ley accepted Ley’s request to quit the shadow ministry as a defense industry spokesman. Im I accepted the leader’s decision. And I reiterated my regret not being clearer in my comments about ABC last Wednesday, ”he said.

“Nevertheless, some colleagues ignore the key point I have made about the damaging effects of mass migration, and instead, some colleagues have the opportunity to express my disappointment that they chose to pamper on the agenda -guided media interpretation.”

“To repeat the comments from my previous statement: I never aim to be humiliating to our Indian community.

The questionnaire clarifies the dark numbers used in migration debate

Last week, Price justified his allegations about Indian immigrants by pointing to the unrelected figures of Kos Samaras, a former worker strategist and commentator who ruled the Redbridge voting company.

“Recently, the Redbridge survey told us that 85 percent of the Indian lineage … 85 percent of the votes for labor,” Price said last Thursday that the Labor Party brought Indian immigrants to win votes. “So, the facts I pointed to.”

However, Samaras explained these figures when asked by this masthead. According to the study, the Indian diaspora’s May elections in the May elections of Australia in the work of a more appropriate characterization of a two -party characterization of a preferred basis “in the mid -60s,” he said.

“Voting can be as high as 85 percent in some places, but others may be as low as in the 60s,” he said.

This states that the big party received votes after the preferences are distributed. The preferred vote in the May elections was 55 percent for the labor force.

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Samaras first increased the number 85 percent in an X live stream of controversial political activist Drew Pavlou. It was not published in any report.

“Eighty -five percent of the Indian diaspora voted for the Labor Party in the last election.” When we understand them, they prefer two parties. “

The group has been quoted in March for Australia, which has been targeted by extreme right social media accounts and organizing anti -immigration rallies last month and in the promotional brochures of Indian Australians.

In the early hours of Wednesday, Hawke called the coalition’s shadow cabinet to challenge the price of the polls, used to claim that the Indian Australians preferred labor with an overwhelming majority, and warned the community about the ongoing public devilization ”. On Wednesday morning, his senior colleagues texted these alternative data with a Twitter connection.

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Experienced polling analyst Peter Brent described Samaras’s first claim as “unreasonable ve and showed about 45 percent of Australians, the former Yougov questionnaire Shaun Ratcliff, the first choice votes and the coalition of the Australians in the last elections.

Another data set from the Australian Election Study shows that between 1987 and 2022, 45.7 percent of the Indian diaspora voted liberal and 42.4 percent of the labor.

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