For a first-term backbench MP never likely to trouble the scorers, let alone ever make it to the frontbench, state Liberal Moira Deeming’s impact on Victorian and national politics is seismic.

Far from her being an inconsequential non-entity, Deeming’s single-issue activism, on the rights of biological women to feel safe in women’s spaces, opened a Pandora’s box of troubles for the Liberal Party since her involvement with Melbourne’s ill-fated Let Women Speak rally in March 2023, when neo-Nazi thugs descending like Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition.