Opposition finance spokesperson James Paterson has said he’s confident that senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price “will be back in a prominent role in the frontbench in due course” following her dumping from the shadow ministry last night.
“Political careers are not linear any more. They have fits and starts, forward steps and back steps,” Paterson told Sky News.
Opposition finance spokesman James Paterson.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen
Paterson said he supported Ley’s leadership, and as an “institutional conservative” he believed that supporting the leader was a prerequisite for serving in the shadow ministry.
“You are required to support the leader of the parliamentary party, if you are a member of the frontbench, and if you can no longer do that, then you are obliged to leave the frontbench,” the senator said.
He went on to say that since Price’s comments on the ABC last Wednesday, the Liberal Party had not had an “edifying week” and the party was concerned about its relationship with Indian migrants.
Turning to events in the United States, Paterson said the assassination of Charlie Kirk was troubling both for the US and Australia, with fears that political violence was on the rise following assassination attempts against Donald Trump.
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