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Jacinta Price Backs Andrew Hastie as a Future Leader, Calls for Stop to Backgrounding

Price called for her colleagues who background against conservatives to ‘put their name to those comments that they like to make anonymously.’
Jacinta Price Backs Andrew Hastie as a Future Leader, Calls for Stop to Backgrounding
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Sept. 3, 2025. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
Monica O’Shea
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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has thrown her support behind Andrew Hastie for the future Liberal leadership and criticised his factional rivals who have been speaking to the media on background.

“I think because they are not focused on the fact that we have very little in the way of policy to present and we need to get on with that sort of work,” Price told 2GB radio.
Monica O’Shea
Monica O’Shea
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Monica O’Shea is a reporter based in Australia. She previously worked as a reporter for Motley Fool Australia, Daily Mail Australia, and Fairfax Regional Media. She can be reached at monica.o'[email protected]