It was not unfair or unreasonable to rely on a single source before allegedly defaming the head of a large Aboriginal land council over a vote of dismissal, an outspoken Liberal senator says.

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 a 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.

The senator took the stand on Friday in Darwin's federal court, defending her decisions to rely only on what Mr Palmer had said before issuing her public statement.

She accepted she had acted

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