An anti-abortion candidate for the Victorian Liberal Party who opposes the rights of trans people was deemed too risky to run as part of former prime minister Scott Morrison’s election team this year. | EXCLUSIVE by paulsakkal auspol springst
for repeated unbecoming conduct, mostly on social media. The behaviour included depicting Premier Daniel Andrews as a Nazi and advocating that abortion should be prohibited for rape victims.it would be fair to describe Deeming, who he endorsed ahead of the preselection vote involving about 45 party members, as his protégé. He described her as intelligent and politically shrewd and said the vote proved people in Melbourne’s west wanted a social conservative MP.
When the Liberals expelled Finn from the parliamentary party, Opposition Leader Matthew Guy said the party accepted diverse views, but he expected “people to uphold respectful discourse whatever their issues may be”. Two party figures explained that Clark and his allies did not back Deeming because they agreed with her views. Rather, they insisted the final two candidates up against her in the last round of voting were unpalatable. They included Dinesh Gourisetty, who in 2019 pleaded guilty to breaches of the food act and paid $25,000 for running a filthy restaurant, and 69-year-old Fred Ackerman.
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