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Former Queensland Labor MP ordered to pay more than $150,000 for depicting lobby group boss as Jabba the Hutt

Facebook posts by Rob Pyne conveyed imputation that Greg Hallam was ‘corrupt’ and were defamatory, district court judge finds

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A former Queensland Labor MP has been ordered to pay more than $150,000 for making Facebook posts depicting a lobby group CEO as Jabba the Hutt.

Rob Pyne, now a Cairns councillor, was the MP for Cairns from 2015 until 2017.

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