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Liberal MP Launches Last-Gasp Lawsuit Against Own Party
Deeming’s lawyer says the complaint was made in good faith as party executives prepare to decide her candidacy before the state election.
- On Friday, Victorian Liberal Party MP Moira Deeming secured a two-week reprieve after initiating Supreme Court action against party president Brian Loughnane to prevent her disendorsement as a candidate for November's state election.
- The party moved to disendorse Deeming after she made an unsubstantiated assault allegation against Matthew Guy at a May 23 event; Victoria Police dismissed the complaint after reviewing CCTV footage showing 'no offence detected.'
- Despite demands for an apology from Opposition Leader Jess Wilson, Deeming refused, maintaining she 'misunderstood' the term 'headlock.' A decision to disendorse requires support from 75 per cent of the 18-person state executive.
- Lawyers for Loughnane provided an undertaking to the Supreme Court on Friday that the state executive would pause disendorsement proceedings until Deeming's legal challenge is heard on 17 July.
- This infighting occurs less than five months before the November 28 election, leaving Deeming isolated from former allies as the party attempts to resolve internal disunity while focusing on defeating Labor.
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Breaking: Meeting to decide Moira Deeming's future cancelled amid court battle
Victorian MP Moira Deeming has won a two-week reprieve as a Liberal candidate for the November state election, after the party agreed in the Supreme Court to cancel imminent plans to revoke her preselection.
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MP Deeming Mounts Last-Gasp Court Bid to Block Liberal Axe
Right-leaning Liberal MP Moira Deeming has launched an eleventh-hour court challenge against her own party ahead of a meeting to decide her fate after she made an unsubstantiated assault allegation against a former leader. Moira Deeming lodged the legal action against Victorian Liberal Party State President Brian Loughnane, which will be heard in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday morning. The latest round of Liberal infighting comes less tha…
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Leaning Left5Leaning Right2Center2Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Left
Bias Distribution
- 56% of the sources lean Left
56% Left
L 56%
C 22%
R 22%
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