An outspoken Liberal senator refused to apologise and pay $30,000 in damages to the head of an Aboriginal land council who she allegedly defamed in a media release, a court has heard.

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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is being sued by Central Land Council chief executive Lesley Turner over a media release in July 2024 that claimed there had been a failed no-confidence motion against him.

Council chair Matthew Palmer earlier issued his own release including the same allegedly defamatory claim, which was picked up by Senator Nampijinpa Price and reported by the News Corp-owned NT News and the ABC.

Just over a week after the releases, Mr Turner

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