The Federal Court has ruled that activist Sally Rugg was more focused on political life in Canberra than helping her former boss, Monique Ryan, as it rejected her bid to return to the Kooyong MP’s office.
The former chief of staff argued she was pushed out of the office after months of hostile behaviour from Ryan and was seeking to return to her job as she prepared for a broader trial regarding the hours she was expected to work.Credit:Federal Court Justice Debra Mortimer dismissed the application in a brief hearing on Tuesday. She agreed with lawyers for Ryan and the Commonwealth, who argued the relationship between the pair had been damaged beyond repair.
“Even on the most favourable view of Ms Rugg’s submissions about how responsibly they might each try to behave, I do not consider the situation is likely to be tolerable, let alone productive and workable, for either of them.”“The applicant’s submissions to the contrary had a significant degree of unreality about them.”Mortimer found Rugg had exaggerated elements of her evidence about her relationship with Ryan.
The decision to deny Rugg a pathway back to the office represents a small win for Ryan, who did not want the former same-sex marriage and anti-News Corp campaigner to return to work. “There are real divisions in the accounts given by Dr Ryan and Ms Rugg, such that the reliability and credibility of their evidence about what happened during the five months of the employment relationship is going to be critical to the outcome of the proceeding,” she wrote.
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