Rebel Victorian MP Moira Deeming has been expelled from the parliamentary Liberal Party after a meeting of MPs this morning, with Renee Heath ditched as partyroom secretary.
abc.net.au/news/moira-deeming-expulsion-john-pesutto-liberal-party-victoria/102337080Rebel Liberal MP Moira Deeming has been expelled from the parliamentary party after a meeting of MPs this morning.Liberal MPs voted to oust the upper house member after she threatened legal action against leader John PesuttoHer colleague and fellow conservative Renee Heath was also sanctioned in the meeting over her taking of minutes in a partyroom meeting. Liberal MPs voted to sack her as partyroom secretary.
The upper house MP initially accepted the suspension, but then pushed back, claiming Mr Pesutto had reneged on an undertaking to publicly state Ms Deeming was not associated with neo-Nazis.Mr Pesutto said no retraction was necessary because "nothing" in a dossier circulated by him after her attendance at the rally "ever accused Moira Deeming of being a Nazi or herself having Nazi sympathies".
The war within the party has been characterised as a struggle between the moderate and conservative factions, with the moderates broadly backing Mr Pesutto and his self-proclaimed attempts to modernise a party that has crumbled in the face of premier Dan Andrews' domination of Victorian politics.
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