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Moira Deeming and the Liberals: why the Victorian MP has caused such a stir in a short period of time

The upper house member was suspended from the party for nine months but now faces a vote on whether she will be expelled

The Guardian - AU

Moira Deeming serves Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto with defamation concerns notice

MPs expected to proceed with a vote to determine if Deeming is expelled from the party on Friday

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto sent defamation notice by exiled MP Moira Deeming

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto says exiled MP Moira Deeming has sent him a letter flagging legal action, a day before her colleagues are due to vote on whether she should be permanently expelled from the parliamentary party.

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Afternoon Update: Senate stoush over Labor’s housing bill; Lehrmann inquiry twist; and Google launches AI chatbot in Australia

War of words between Labor and Greens over housing affordability future fund bill devolves into personal attacks

The Guardian - AU

Moira Deeming supporter Richard Riordan urges delay of Victorian Liberal’s expulsion vote

The Polwarth MP claimed Friday’s meeting could risk a ‘messy legal dispute’ due to an ‘invalid’ motion

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberals make Moira Deeming’s expulsion their top priority

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto has backed a second bid to expel an exiled MP from the party despite her backing down from legal action.

The New Daily

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto confirms he will back Moira Deeming expulsion motion

Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto confirms he will support a second motion to expel controversial MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary Liberal Party.

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Moira Deeming facing new expulsion push as she denies threatening to sue Liberal party

Five MPs have given John Pesutto a notice of motion seeking her expulsion, which will go to the party room on Friday

The Guardian - AU

Exiled MP Moira Deeming to face expulsion vote next Friday

Victorian Liberal MPs will vote on whether to expel controversial Victorian MP Moira Deeming after she denied plans to sue the party over her suspension.

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Victoria’s rogue Liberal MP Moira Deeming flips, flops and drops legal threat

Exiled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming will not pursue legal action over her temporary suspension from the parliamentary party.

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Victorian Liberals' bitter infighting seems more and more likely to end up in court. Can Dutton stop it?

The crisis consuming the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party sounds a warning to centre-right parties that pursuing the culture wars now gripping the United States and other countries brings dangerous volatility. And little public support.

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Afternoon Update: inflation to decline faster than predicted; author Gabrielle Carey dies; and King Charles’s unnecessary coronation

Australia’s near-term inflation should decline faster than previously predicted as wage growth ‘momentum’ eases and economy slows, RBA says

The Guardian - AU

Moira Deeming faces new challenge as Victorian Liberals push for vote to expel her from party

Peter Dutton tells state colleagues ‘I want this mess sorted out’ after MP threatened to sue

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto threatens Moira Deeming with expulsion, Dutton flags federal intervention

Exiled Liberal MP Moira Deeming could be expelled from the party next week after threatening to take legal action to reverse her partyroom suspension.

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Dutton weighs intervention for troubled Victorian Libs

The federal Liberal leader has not ruled out intervention after Victorian exiled MP Moira Deeming announced plans for legal action against the party.

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Dan Andrews slams ‘hateful’ anti-drag protesters

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews condemns protesters against a drag storytime event for ‘bigotry, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia’, and the Albanese government scraps the Coalition’s ‘punitive’ ParentsNext program.

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Moira Deeming dispute threatens to widen Liberals’ split

Moira Deeming is threatening legal action against progressive leader John Pesutto because she alleges he reneged on a promise.

The Guardian - AU

Victorian Liberals plunge into chaos as John Pesutto faces second coming of Moira Deeming

Internal warfare has spiralled into threats of legal action and accusations of ‘terrorists’ holding the state opposition party ‘hostage’

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Afternoon Update: Victorian Liberal row escalates; Indigenous leaders demand royal apology; and NAB profit surges

Suspended Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming threatens her party leader John Pesutto with legal action

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Exiled MP Moira Deeming tells Opposition Leader John Pesutto she is taking legal action over her suspension

Senior Victorian Liberals have already begun discussing if MP Moira Deeming should be expelled from the party room over her threats to sue Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

The Guardian - AU

Moira Deeming tells Victorian Liberal MPs she will challenge her suspension from the party

Upper house MP threatened legal action if John Pesutto didn’t declare she’s not a Nazi sympathiser

The New Daily

‘Terrorists’: Liberal MPs defend leader over bullying claim

Allies have swung to the defence of Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto after colleagues anonymously accused him and the party leadership of bullying.

The Guardian - AU

Matthew Guy says some ‘dangerously politically stupid’ Sky News hosts are damaging the Liberal party

Former Victorian Liberal leader also criticises his party’s state president in his first interview since November

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Victorian Liberal MPs to have free vote in Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum

Victorian Liberal MPs will be free to cast a conscience vote in the Voice referendum, putting the state party at odds with its federal counterpart.

The Conversation

While the Voice has a large poll lead now, history of past referendums indicates it may struggle

Support for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament has dropped since the first polls that asked about it in late 2022. Analyst Kevin Bonham has plotted all the poll results, and the average Voice support is down from 65% in August 2022 to 57% now.

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