A Liberal senator who accused the head of a large Aboriginal land council of failing remote communities has rejected suggestions she was also to blame for the same people's predicament.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has been sued by Central Land Council chief executive Lesley Turner over an allegedly defamatory press release from July 2024 that claimed there had been a failed no-confidence motion against him.

The release also accused Mr Turner of unprofessional conduct by failing to help poverty-stricken Aboriginal people who were living in tin sheds.

As the Federal Court defamation trial continued on Monday in Darwin, Mr Turner's barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC suggested Senator Nampijinpa Price held more power than the land council boss to make change due to her position as a politici

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