{"id":828428,"date":"2026-07-28T05:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828428\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T05:31:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T05:31:14","slug":"embattled-mp-moira-deeming-resigns-from-victorian-liberal-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/828428\/","title":{"rendered":"Embattled MP Moira Deeming resigns from Victorian Liberal Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">MP Moira Deeming has resigned from the parliamentary Liberal Party, following weeks of rancour between the party and her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In a statement posted to social media, Mrs Deeming said she would sit with the crossbench as an independent MP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;My focus has always been, and will continue to be, on representing the needs and concerns of everyday Australians,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;To save our state from the endemic corruption, crushing debt and the rising crime crisis, Labor has got to go. I remain fully committed to seeing that through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Opposition Leader Jess Wilson confirmed Mrs Deeming&#8217;s decision on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;This morning I received the resignation from the Parliamentary Liberal Party from Moira Deeming,&#8221; Ms Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Political future remains unknown for embattled MP<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mrs Deeming, a first-term Upper House MP for Western Metropolitan Region, <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-07-17\/moira-deeming-liberal-party-decision-preselection\/106928954\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">was already facing the end of her political career as a Liberal after the party voted to revoke her candidacy for the upcoming November election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">It came after Mrs Deeming had alleged her partyroom colleague Matthew Guy had assaulted her at a community event in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police reviewed CCTV of the interaction and said no offence was detected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mrs Deeming had refused to apologise, saying she had made the allegation in good faith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She has also separately flagged that she is facing possible bankruptcy proceedings, which could force her removal from parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The MP has been unable to repay a loan that funded her successful defamation action against former opposition leader John Pesutto earlier this term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MP Moira Deeming has resigned from the parliamentary Liberal Party, following weeks of rancour between the party and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,127355,167425,34404,10940,362681,280741,61572,44,25027,9801,41,39,42,40,280743],"class_list":["post-828428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-jess-wilson","tag-john-pesutto","tag-leader","tag-liberal-party","tag-matthew-guy","tag-moira-deeming","tag-mp","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-parliament","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-western-metropolitan-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828428","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=828428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}