It comes a week after the federal court ordered Jackson to repay about $1.4m of misused union funds

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Bankrupt Kathy Jackson has been ordered to pay the Health Services Union almost $1m, meaning she now owes it about $2.4m.

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On Tuesday the federal court told the disgraced whistleblower to pay the union $997,349 in costs and judgment interests.

It came about a week after the court denied Jackson’s bid to appeal an order that said she should repay about $1.4m of misused union funds.

The Health Services Union secretary, Chris Brown, said the union was unlikely to see the bulk of the money Jackson owed because she had declared bankruptcy, but was confident part of the sum could be recovered.

It was the last of the civil matters involving Jackson, who did not appear for the judgment.

“She has spent an enormous amount of effort trying to frustrate the process and that just pushed the costs up,” Brown said on Tuesday.

In August Jackson was ordered to pay the union $1.4m after federal court judge Richard Tracey found she had misappropriated its money through credit cards, an unauthorised slush fund and cash withdrawn from a cheque account.

Jackson, who filed for bankruptcy midyear, then launched an appeal bid that was rejected by the court earlier this month.

Victoria police are investigating her conduct at the HSU between 2008 and February this year.