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Callum Godde

Liberal leader's unity call after $1.5m party bailout

The VIctorian Liberals have stepped in to help settle John Pesutto's debt with Moira Deeming. (Joel Carrett, James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)

A state Liberal leader is defending a million-dollar bailout to save his predecessor's political career and reunite his fractured party.

The Victorian Liberals' administrative committee on Thursday night agreed to lend former leader John Pesutto $1.55 million to settle legal costs owed to first-term MP Moira Deeming.

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