Three weeks of Deeming-Pesutto defamation drama wraps up with frankness and eggs
Witnesses finished giving evidence on Friday, but the hearings didn’t end without drama.
- by Rachel Eddie
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‘My biggest fans are gay people and trans people’: New secret recording aired in Deeming case
In audio played to the Federal Court, Opposition Leader John Pesutto is heard opening a meeting by saying: “We’ve got a huge problem.”
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Pesutto backs deputy who secretly taped Liberal meeting as ‘insurance’
Opposition Leader John Pesutto says he “absolutely” trusts David Southwick, who told the Federal Court he secretly recorded an internal meeting as an “insurance policy” because he could no longer trust Moira Deeming.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
‘Many things are taped’ secretly in the Victorian Liberal Party, court hears
A former Liberal MP says he was warned on his first day in parliament that conversations in the party were often “surreptitiously” recorded, as leader John Pesutto moved to reassure Victorians that his position was safe.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Spreadsheet ranking Liberals on how they’d vote on Deeming expulsion shown to court
A colour-coded spreadsheet made by John Pesutto’s staff catalogues how every Victorian Liberal MP was expected to vote on a motion to expel Moira Deeming from the party room.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
John Pesutto’s unwinnable position: Save himself, or save his job
The Liberal leader is battling two realities – a father of three fighting a costly defamation suit versus the senior politician trying to hang on to his job. It’s possible even if he wins, he loses.
- by Annika Smethurst and Rachel Eddie
‘A very unusual situation’: Pesutto shared defamation settlement efforts with Kennett
Opposition Leader John Pesutto also conceded he’d drafted a statement on a possible resignation for Moira Deeming hours before she was brought in to explain her actions to the leadership team.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Deeming drops part of her defamation case against Pesutto
Liberal leader John Pesutto was forced to defend a dossier compiled to justify Moira Deeming’s expulsion from the party room – a document likened in court to something “prepared by an eight-year-old”.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
As it happened: Moira Deeming, John Pesutto defamation case: Opposition leader cross-examined for first day in Federal Court
Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto has started giving evidence in the defamation trial ousted MP Moira Deeming launched against him.
- by Rachel Eddie, Annika Smethurst and Broede Carmody
Liberal MP claims Pesutto accused Deeming of organising Nazis at rally
In a heated exchange in the Federal Court, Kim Wells accused Liberal Party leadership of double-crossing Deeming and her backers.
- by Rachel Eddie and Annika Smethurst
Civil case in an uncivil war: Liberal Party’s bitter feud laid bare
John Pesutto appears composed and smiling, and Moira Deeming enters as the middle-aged mum from the suburbs. That is where the niceties stop.
- by Annika Smethurst and Rachel Eddie
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