Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has denied she participated in an attempted “coup” to oust an Indigenous leader from a land council, as she faced a second day of questioning in a high-stakes defamation fight.

Price is defending a Federal Court defamation suit filed against her by Les Turner, the chief executive of the Northern Territory-based Central Land Council, over a press release she issued in July last year. The trial, estimated to run for at least a week, started in Darwin last Monday .

The court has heard Price was contacted by the then-principal of Alice Springs’ Yipirinya School for Indigenous children, Gavin Morris, in June 2024 before she published the media release, which was critical of Turner, the following month. It was distributed to almost 2000 journalists.

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