“There’s a road for Moira to take if she wants to earn her place back in the party room. Now, she’s not off to a good start,' John Pesutto said.
However, just hours after avoiding expulsion, she tweeted to Keen-Minshull and Jones, saying she did not condemn them in the meeting.Deeming told Jones in a tweet: “Don’t worry, I never condemned you, or KD [Katherine Deves] or KJ [Keen-Minshull].”a week after his leadership team summoned her to a meeting.
“When you listen to something so personal and so harrowing, part of leadership is empathy and compassion and whilst I had gone through the last week moving a motion of expulsion, when I heard that account, plus the unreserved condemnation in the written material sent to party members just before the meeting, I felt that empathy was required and justified … that’s why I put an altered proposal to the party room,” Pesutto said.
“Moira understands that from the meeting, and if she doesn’t act consistently with the party room outcome, then obviously the party room – and I’m a member of that – we’ll take that very seriously.”The Morning Edition newsletter is our guide to the day’s most important and interesting stories, analysis and insights.
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