Sky News host Rita Panahi said that rather than “notching up a rare win' by supporting Moira Deeming, Victorian Liberal Leader John Pesutto 'opted to out-Dan Dan'.
, with a motion for her expulsion claiming she"engaged in conduct in violation of Clause 57, bringing discredit on the Parliamentary Party". Sky News host Rita Panahi slammed the decision to expel Moira Deeming from the Victorian Liberal Party. Picture: Sky News Australia.
“Whether they're conservative women like Moira Deeming and Renee Heath or left leaning feminists like Angie Jones and the bulk of the women who attended the Let Women Speak protest.” The vote in March was abandoned with Ms Deeming accepting a nine-month suspension, but the issue came to a head again last week after the upper house MP said in an email that she had advised her lawyers to"prepare a legal challenge" over her suspension.
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