Upper house MP was instead suspended for nine months after a two-hour meeting over her future
Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has avoided being expelled from the party room after a marathon two-hour meeting of MPs and will instead be suspended for nine months in a huge loss for the opposition leader, John Pesutto.
Guardian Australia understands Pesutto’s expulsion motion did not go to a vote in a special party room meeting held at parliament on Monday morning. Instead, Deeming will be suspended for nine months and her membership in the parliamentary party reviewed then, according to a Liberal source. Pesutto had sought to expel Deeming after she attended a rally headlined by British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis who were subsequentlyHe had described her position in the party room as “untenable” after she attend the rally “with speakers and other organisers who themselves have been publicly associated with far rightwing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists”.
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