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Terry Barnes

Liberals desperately need to end the Pesutto-Deeming drama

A climb down by both sides in this libel case would better for the Victorian Liberals than a damning Federal Court judgment.

What a circus is unfolding under the Federal Court’s big top.

While the Victorian Labor government flounders and Peter Dutton’s federal Liberals, according to some polls, could regain at least four seats in Victoria, state Liberals are slugging it out in court, with their leader John Pesutto being sued for defamation by renegade Liberal MP Moira Deeming.

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Terry Barnes is a Liberal Party member and policy consultant who formerly advised federal and Victorian Liberal ministers.

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