Victorian MP booted from Liberal party team after anti-abortion social media posts

Following the vote, Bernie Finn met supporters gathered on the front steps of parliament, holding signs reading ‘free speech’ and ‘liberalism is dead’. Photograph: Diego Fedele/AAP

Victorian rightwing MP Bernie Finn has been expelled from the state’s parliamentary Liberal team for posting on Facebook that abortion should be banned, even for survivors of rape.

In a decision that resulted in Finn describing the party he joined four decades ago as “dead”, Liberal MPs voted to expel him during a party room meeting on Tuesday morning.