Moira Deeming
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- Victorian election
Liberals doomed at Victorian election if they try to become One Nation-lite, warns party boss
State party president Phil Davis warns in an exclusive interview that if the Liberals can’t make peace among themselves and with their direction, they can’t win.
- Chip Le Grand
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Deeming last candidate standing after further preselection chaos
At noon on Thursday, there were four candidates seeking Liberal Party preselection for an upper house seat representing Melbourne’s west. By the end of the day, there was only one.
- Rachel Eddie and Chip Le Grand
How the Moira Deeming preselection debacle reopened deep party wounds
The preselection battle between Moira Deeming and Dinesh Gourisetty was for months dogged by accusations of branch stacking and suspicions of an anti-Deeming conspiracy at work.
- Rachel Eddie and Chip Le Grand
Moira Deeming gets second chance in re-run preselection
The Liberal Party will be forced to run its preselection again after it was revealed Deeming’s victor wrote a character reference for a friend who groomed and sexually assaulted a child.
- Rachel Eddie
Moira Deeming dumped: MP loses Liberal preselection battle
Deeming quickly left the party’s headquarters without comment on Sunday after losing the hard-fought ballot, fuelling speculation she could defect to One Nation or the Libertarians.
- Rachel Eddie
Conservative Liberal MP rolled for top spot amid fiery preselection battles
A tense round of Liberal preselection contests kicked off this weekend, amid the ongoing threat from One Nation.
- Daniella White and Rachel Eddie
Obama conspiracy theorist to address Australian conservative summit
American filmmaker and Infowars regular Joel Gilbert is speaking this week at Advance’s new conference in Sydney along with former prime minister Tony Abbott and Victorian MP Moira Deeming.
- Michael Koziol
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- Liberal Party
Pesutto could refinance loan to spare Victorian Liberals court battle
The possibility, designed to put an end to Supreme Court action and a long-running distraction for the Victorian opposition, has not progressed to any specific proposal.
- Rachel Eddie
Scrap net zero, Victorian Liberal members tell Sussan Ley
The state’s Liberal Party members also voted at Sunday’s state council to call for trans women to be blocked from women’s and girls’ sport.
- Rachel Eddie and James Massola
Melbourne’s west feels neglected by Labor, but this is why the Liberals can’t break the red wall
In the western suburbs, Labor MPs are having to work harder than ever and independents are on the rise.
- Daniella White