Court finds Victorian Liberal leader defamed then party-room colleague when referring to rally gatecrashed by far right
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Victoria’s opposition leader, John Pesutto, defamed his fellow Liberal MP Moira Deeming in comments made after neo-Nazis gatecrashed a rally she helped organise, a federal court has found.
Deeming sued Pesutto for comments made in a media release, a press conference and interviews in the days after the Let Women Speak rally on 18 March 2023, in which she argued that the Liberal leader falsely portrayed her as a Nazi sympathiser.
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