The caffeine-powered staff of Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie will be breathing a sigh of relief after they unearthed the office coffee machine some eight months after reporting it vanished.

The small Breville Nespresso coffee machine turned up in the back of a cupboard this week, after The West reported it was among the many items MPs had recorded as lost or missing in the first half of the year.

Senator Lambie filed a report to the Finance Department in March saying the machine couldn’t be found.

A departmental officer who went looking for it in April noted on official paperwork that the machine had been “purchased by Mr Abetz years ago” – a reference to the former Liberal senator Eric Abetz, whi is now well ensconced in the Tasmanian State Parliament.

“Not in office now,” the bur

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