Indian community leaders say the remarks reflect a long-standing political pattern of targeting minorities.

Labor’s Julian Hill says Senator Price was sacked for not supporting Ley, not for her Indian migrant remarks.

Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said the community must not be “used as fodder in an internal Liberal Party dispute” over migration.

“These are just the sort of Australians that the Liberal Party should be absolutely going out of their way to make friends with.”

For me, supporting the Australian Indian community is in my DNA – and it is in my DNA because I am a Liberal.

I feel terrible that Indian Australians are receiving such a damaging message.

Senator Penny Wong said that the nation’s strength lies in its multiculturalism, with more than 300 ancestries represented and nearly half of Australians either born overseas or with a parent born overseas.

Australia remains one of the best countries in the world. But preserving its strengths requires vigilance. Extremists on both the left and the right must be resisted.

The Shree Baba Ragho Dass Vishnu Temple on Koroi Road in Sawani was the target of the attack shortly after the temple’s weekly Ramayan recital had concluded.

‘March for Australia’ rallies in nine cities on 31 August are being led by an anti-immigration group that has singled out Indian migrants, framing recent arrivals as “replacement plain and simple.”