Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is defending a defamation claim by an Aboriginal land council boss. Photo: Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS

Outspoken Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price pushed ahead with a media release that defamed an Aboriginal land council boss without checking the details were true, a court has heard.

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Senator Nampijinpa Price is fighting a claim by Central Land Council chief executive Lesley Turner that she defamed him in the July 2024 press release.

Mr Turner said the release falsely reported a no-confidence motion had been moved against him by council delegat

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