Supporters of expelled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming interrupt a state party conference, booing Opposition Leader John Pesutto while holding up masks of Ms Deeming's face.
"I will never resign. I will never quit. I will not do their dirty work for them, I have much too much dignity for that," she said.
In a defamation concerns notice sent to Mr Pesutto on the eve of her expulsion, Ms Deeming asked the Liberal leader to publish an apology to her for making public statements suggesting she was associated with neo-Nazis. Mr Pesutto has rejected those calls, saying he had never suggested that and therefore no apology was necessary.City of Melton councillor Moira Deeming is preselected to contest the Western Metropolitan Region for the Liberal Party at the upcoming state election. Then-party leader Matthew Guy defends the preselection choice amid controversy over her views on transgender rights.
Ms Deeming attends an anti-transgender-rights rally at Parliament House, which is gatecrashed by neo-Nazis who perform Hitler salutes on the steps of Parliament. Ms Deeming denounces the actions of the masked men, later adding she was "horrified".Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto announces plans to expel Ms Deeming from the party. The issue
. Ms Deeming defends herself, arguing she did "nothing wrong" and rejecting the suggestion any organisers were involved with the men who gatecrashed the protest.At a Liberal partyroom meeting, Moira Deeming is handed a nine-month suspension over her involvement in the rally, a compromise John Pesutto said was the result of "concessions" from Ms Deeming.
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