Hundreds of texts and emails from Moira Deeming show the behind-the-scenes support she says she had from senior federal Liberals and party elders.
Ousted Liberal Moira Deeming claimed she was receiving support from senior federal Liberals, including Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, in her fight against Victorian leader John Pesutto, a trove of text messages and emails show.late on Friday before Deeming and Pesutto face off for the first day of a high-stakes three-week defamation trial in the Federal Court beginning on Monday.
Pesutto moved to expel her from the party room the day before early voting opened for the crucial byelection in the federal seat of Aston, which the Liberals went on to lose. A Liberal source who was close to Dutton at the time, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal party matters, disputed that Deeming had Dutton’s support, even if he did not back Pesutto’s handling of the matter.Dutton had publicly said as much, saying the distraction had derailed the state team’s attempts to be an effective opposition.
Thirty pages of screenshots of texts between Deeming and Credlin revealed the Sky News anchor had been coaching Deeming through the saga.“It’s been 6 weeks of defamation. Tony Abbott even told me he’d sue if it were him,” Deeming told Credlin on May 3, 2023. Abbott had always publicly stated his support for Deeming. Deeming had said and done “absolutely nothing that should be undoable and unsayable by Liberals”, he told Credlin’s Sky News program last May.
A handful of state and federal MPs, Abbott and party headquarters had all been working to broker a solution for Deeming.reported last year, was to appoint party elders to oversee Deeming’s re-entry into the party room as part of a probation period to return to the opposition benches.However, Deeming has bled support from some sympathetic Liberals as the saga drags on.
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