{"id":803175,"date":"2026-07-16T04:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:02:35","slug":"moira-deeming-drops-legal-case-against-victorian-liberal-party-and-makes-last-ditch-bid-to-avoid-disendorsement-liberal-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/803175\/","title":{"rendered":"Moira Deeming drops legal case against Victorian Liberal party and makes last-ditch bid to avoid disendorsement | Liberal party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has dropped legal action against her own party as she seeks to make a last-ditch appeal to avoid being disendorsed before the state election.<\/p>\n

Deeming launched an 11th-hour supreme court challenge<\/a> against the Victorian Liberal party president, Brian Loughnane, on 3 July after she made an assault allegation against former leader Matthew Guy and subsequently rejected calls to apologise after Victoria police determined \u201cthere was no offence detected\u201d.<\/p>\n

Deeming announced late on Wednesday that she had withdrawn the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe injunction has achieved exactly what it intended to achieve,\u201d she wrote in a statement posted to social media.<\/p>\n

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The MP, who sits in the upper house for the Western Metropolitan Region, is facing being disendorsed as a candidate before November\u2019s state election.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Deeming sent a 12-page statement to the party\u2019s state executive, providing a mediation proposal that allowed her to end the supreme court action.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe state executive, having all the evidence before them, can now decide whether to pursue mediation or reconvene to disendorse me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom beginning to end, I progressed the issue in good faith, respected the confidentiality of all involved, submitted myself to the instructions and policies of the party and obeyed the law rather than run it through the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my part, I will continue doing my work serving Victorians and fighting Labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

CCTV footage from a function in May showed Guy placing his hand on Deeming\u2019s upper back as they lean in to talk to one another.<\/p>\n

\"CCTVCCTV footage shows interaction between Matthew Guy and Moira Deeming \u2013 video<\/p>\n

Police reviewed the CCTV and concluded no offence was committed.<\/p>\n

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Deeming had accused her colleague of grabbing her \u201cviolently\u201d in a headlock but since claimed she misunderstood the meaning of headlock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving been overseas and unwell when the story broke and jetlagged and unwell when the disendorsement meeting was called, the injunction gave me time to recover, review all the facts, learn the difference between a headlock and a collar-tie grip, and gather my thoughts,\u201d she later clarified.<\/p>\n

Guy told reporters in June <\/a>that Deeming had owed him a public apology, adding he vehemently denied that anything untoward took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoira Deeming owes me a public apology. I\u2019m owed an apology by the premier and the attorney general,\u201d he said in a statement outside parliament.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can come to me the honourable and easy way, or a harder way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Liberal leader, Jess Wilson, would not comment on the future of Deeming on Wednesday as the matter was \u201cbefore the courts\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has dropped legal action against her own party as she seeks to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-803175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803175","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=803175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}