Four months before Victorians voted at last year’s state election, a group of about 40 people gathered at a suburban racecourse and secured Moira Deeming a seat in parliament.
Despite Deeming’s history of courting controversy with her views on abortion (“a terrible evil”) and transgender rights, the gathering of party leaders, members and factional operatives determined she would occupy the unloseable spot at the top of the Liberals’ ticket for the western metropolitan region.
