Exclusive: The state Liberal Party has blocked an attempt to force a vote of rank-and-file members to decide MP Moira Deeming’s status in its parliamentary team at a conference of its governing body later this month.
handed out to the Western Metropolitan Region MP after she attended a Let Women Speak rally, which was gate-crashed by neo-Nazis, in March. It passed a motion that the state council should vote to overturn Deeming’s party room suspension.
The party room ended up reaching a compromise deal to suspend the first-term MP for nine months, a move that frustrated rank-and-file members of the Niddrie branch. “[One member] mentioned the divide in the party, some want to go more left, others more right. Talked about the women’s rally and how any association with neo-Nazis was just gaslighting. Pesutto should have deferred any judgment and properly researched the facts of the situation first.”
However, at the weekend she issued a statement saying she only wanted to engage lawyers to help negotiate to settle the conditions of her suspension.
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