Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price should have verified claims about the head of an Aboriginal land council before publicly harming his reputation, a defamation trial has heard.
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Central Land Council chief executive Lesley Turner has brought Federal Court proceedings alleging the senator defamed him through a July 2024 press release.
That release falsely said there had been a no-confidence motion against him by council delegates, he said.
Senator Nampijinpa Price had given weight to the claim by repeating it publicly, Alice Springs-based health official John Boffa told a Darwin court on Tuesday after being called as a witness by Mr Tur