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Jack Gramenz and Miklos Bolza

'Security concern' for senator in defamation trial

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price shouldn't have parroted unverified claims, a court has been told. (Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS)

A "security concern" which called police to a court house has also prevented Liberal Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price sitting in on part of her trial for allegedly defaming the head of an Aboriginal land council.

The senator's barrister Peter Gray SC raised the concern shortly before the Federal Court broke for lunch in Darwin on Tuesday afternoon.

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