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John Pesutto arrives at the Administrative Committee meeting to plead his case.

Liberal Party bails out John Pesutto, agreeing to $1.5m loan

The party’s governing board has agreed to lend John Pesutto $1.55 million to settle his legal bill with colleague Moria Deeming.

  • Chip Le Grand and Kieran Rooney

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Developer Hilton Grugeon offered John Pesutto a lifeline – with conditions.

This developer wants to keep Pesutto on a leash. What’s worse, Liberals are entertaining the idea

Property developer Hilton Grugeon has offered the former Victorian Liberal leader a $1 million lifeline that would save his political career, for now. But there are astonishing strings attached.

  • Chip Le Grand
John Pesutto (left), Brad Battin and Moira Deeming

Pesutto offered $1 million by Deeming backer to swear off leadership

The offer, if accepted by John Pesutto, would have given property developer Hilton Grugeon a financial mortgage over the Victorian Liberal Party leadership.

  • Chip Le Grand
Moira Deeming leaving a Liberal Party meeting in May.

Deeming’s bid for guaranteed preselection draws Kennett’s scorn

The Liberal MP has made controversial demands of the man who defamed her, to the chagrin of former premier Jeff Kennett.

  • Alexander Darling
Former opposition leader John Pesutto and Liberal MP Moira Deeming.

Pesutto stakes retirement savings in last-ditch effort to save his political career

The Victorian Liberals’ rescue plan for John Pesutto will complete his descent from party leader to indentured servant.

  • Chip Le Grand
Moira Deeming and John Pesutto.

Former Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto served bankruptcy notice

The development follows Pesutto missing a deadline to pay $2.3 million in legal costs he owes colleague Moira Deeming.

  • Alexander Darling and Broede Carmody
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Brad Battin.

Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition

If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.

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Former Victorian premier Jeff Kennett.

‘Money can be replaced’: Kennett urges Liberal Party to pay up and save John Pesutto

In a last-minute intervention, former premier Jeff Kennett has written to the Victorian Liberal Party leadership, urging them to intervene and cover Pesutto’s $2.3 million legal bill. 

  • Kieran Rooney and Rachel Eddie
Opposition Leader Brad Battin on Friday.

‘The entire party is imploding’: Groth, Pesutto, Deeming turning Liberal headache into a migraine

Opposition Leader Brad Battin was putting out spot fires on Friday as his deputy defended a chauffeured ride home, and a deadline was missed in the saga threatening to bankrupt a former leader.

  • Rachel Eddie
Moira Deeming and John Pesutto.

Liberals brace for impact as Cyclone Moira makes landfall

Deeming’s ultimate mission is not to return the Victorian Liberal Party, in its current form, to government. It is to remake it in her ideological image.

  • Chip Le Grand

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