It has been a strange journey for Colin Craig over the last few years, culminating this week with the public being made aware of two record-breaking decisions made against him.
Pat Brittenden and ODT political editor Dene MacKenzie look at what has happened and where to from here for the former leader of the Conservative Party.
Payout details
Colin Craig was forced to pay former press secretary Rachel MacGregor $128,750 for emotional harm after repeatedly breaching a confidentiality agreement he had signed after mediation with her in May last year. The payment is the biggest made by the Human Rights Review Tribunal.
The tribunal's decision, issued in June, was kept under wraps until the defamation case brought by Taxpayer Union founder Jordan Williams was decided last month, with a payout of almost $1.3 million being ordered against Mr Craig.
Mr Craig is appealing the latter decision.
