Labor claims Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's party-room defection driven by 'ego'

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Two days after Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price's shock defection to the Liberal party room, the NT based party that she represents is yet to officially respond.  Territory Labor has slammed the firebrand Country Liberal's move as driven by ego and ambition, arguing she wasn't upfront with voters in the federal election.

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00:00Months after an orange landslide in the NT, the CLP is dealing with a defection from within

00:08its ranks.

00:09Senator Jacinta Numpajimpa-Price told her CLP colleagues she's switching parliamentary

00:14allegiance from the Nationals to the Liberals in service of Territorians and Australians.

00:21NT Labor has a different theory.

00:23She cannot represent Territorians in a better way by changing party rooms.

00:27She is there for herself.

00:29Suggesting the rebel coalition star should have stood as a Liberal in last week's election.

00:34Jacinta Price should have been up front with Territorians.

00:37CLP leadership nowhere to be seen but this NT frontbencher says they're supportive.

00:43So of course she will be looking to do what she can to support Territorians and broader

00:47Australia as well to ensure that there's a voice out there for us here in the Territory.

00:53The Senator hasn't ruled out a tilted Deputy Liberal leader when the party meets on Tuesday

00:59to choose a replacement for Peter Dutton.

01:02Senator Price's rather abrupt decision is very short term in its outlook and hasn't really

01:09taken into account the long term consequences.

01:13Senator Price's move has been described as a considerable gamble.

01:17With another possible roll of the dice on Tuesday, only time will tell how they fall for the Territory.

01:23Senator Price's move has been determined and will stay in front of the

01:26department of the strength of the leader for the leader for the leader in the military.

01:35And I expect to see from our Abgeordneten, for example, the nodigи for the leader for the leader for the leader of the leader in the military.

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