Former Jacqui Lambie staffers ordered to pay almost $100,000 after losing unfair dismissal case
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Rob and Fern Messenger filed acres of irrelevant and scandalous material' during trial, court finds
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Two of Senator Jacqui Lambie's former staffers have been ordered to pay the commonwealth government almost $100,000 for their unreasonable conduct in an unfair dismissal trial in which a judge found they attempted to smear the senator.
Ex-chief of staff Rob Messenger and his wife, Fern, who managed the senator's offices, were sacked for alleged serious misconduct in 2017 after Messenger sent a letter to the prime minister about alleged inappropriate workplace behaviour.
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