Moira Deeming says she’ll lodge defamation claim against Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto in court

First-term MP says mediation with the party leader failed, as she seeks to return to the Liberal party room

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Victorian MP Moira Deeming says she will lodge defamation proceedings against the state’s Liberal leader, John Pesutto, declaring mediation has failed.

The first-term MP was expelled from the parliamentary Liberal party after she took part in an anti-transgender rally in March that was gatecrashed by a group of masked men who performed Nazi salutes.

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