Victorian opposition leader facing prospect of three defamation cases, as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull and Angie Jones flag legal action
John Pesutto is already embroiled in a defamation case with expelled Liberal MP Moira Deeming amid speculation over a leadership spill.John Pesutto is already embroiled in a defamation case with expelled Liberal MP Moira Deeming amid speculation over a leadership spill., is facing the prospect of three defamation cases amid growing speculation over the future of his leadership of the Liberal party.
Keen-Minshull helped organise a “Let Women Speak” tour of Australia and New Zealand last year, holding rallies in several cities, claiming that the push for transgender rights was silencing and discrimination against women. Deeming and Keen-Minshull both spoke at the rally in Melbourne that was “You can’t say, really, quite despicable, disgusting lies about someone in order to silence them and intimidate them and get away with it,” she said.
“I would like a full and frank apology where he admits, not only that he was incompetent in not finding out and factchecking that the things he saids were lies, but also that when he was told they were lies he doubled down and repeated them and just saying them in the first place.” Deeming, who was expelled from the Liberal party room last year, is suing Pesutto over a series of media releases, press conferences and radio interviews he gave after she spoke at the rally.
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