The future of embattled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming is in doubt after she accused a male colleague of assault.<\/p>\n
Ms Deeming alleged Matthew Guy put her in a headlock at function in Sunshine West on May 23, but police investigating the allegation found no offence was detected after they reviewed footage of the incident.<\/p>\n
A meeting between Opposition Leader Jess Wilson and Ms Deeming has since been cancelled after the embattled MP refused to apologise to Mr Guy.<\/p>\n
The party\u2019s legal affairs spokesman James Newbury said a request was made for her to make an apology.<\/p>\n
\u201cJess Wilson and Matthew Guy asked for an unqualified apology. Moira Deeming released a statement saying that she was not willing to apologise. Therefore, there will not be a meeting between Jess Wilson and Moira Deeming,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe party is now working on the next action it will take.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, Ms Deeming release a statement through her lawyer saying that she misunderstood the term \u201cheadlock\u201d and maintained she acted in good faith to describe what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cA decision by police not to pursue charges is not a finding that a complaint was falsely made,\u201d her lawyer Tim Houweling said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe publicly available footage shows Mr Guy pulling her towards him while maintaining a grip around her neck and upper shoulder area as she attempted to pull away, preventing her from freely moving her head for several seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout attributing motive to the other party, our client maintains that from her perspective this physical contact by a senior male colleague in the workplace was unexpected, unwelcome, physically painful and caused her to feel fear and confusion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Newbury told media, Ms Deeming\u2019s statement was confirmation was given that the allegations used words that were not true. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not in any way applying motive behind that, other than to say that an admission was made that those words were used which were untrue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe right thing would have been for an apology.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoira has said that she\u2019s unwilling to apologise so I think it\u2019s incumbent upon the party to act.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Victorian Liberal Party and Ms Deeming have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of embattled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming is in doubt after she accused a male colleague…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,187436],"class_list":["post-770624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-newswire-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}