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Victorian Liberals dump Moira Deeming in upper house preselection contest
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-29/moira-deeming-loses-preselection-victorian-liberal-party/106508394

Only-moderately-RWNJ Dinesh Gourisetty has won party preselection for a place on the ballot, putting an and to Moira Deeming's dream of reelection to the Upper House. Curiously, she didn't seek nomination for the second slot on the ticket, but I'm taking her loss as a sign that members of the Liberal Party of Victoria remember the absolute maelstrom of shit that ensued last time she was active in the Liberal Party of Victoria, and decided they don't want her back. The party's apathy toward Moira Deeming may have something to do with her running a defamation lawsuit against John Pesutto, the former leader of her own party (which has not been settled fully, and she may yet use to bankrupt him), her transphobia, her horrific anti-abortion stance, and her public appearances and endorsements of TERF and neo-Nazi ideologues.

#AusPol #VicPol #DineshGourisetty #JohnPesutto #MoiraDeeming #Transphobia #TERF #NeoNazi

“Gilbert is being flown into #Australia by #Advance to be a key speaker at a conference in #Sydney, alongside former prime minister #TonyAbbott and #Liberal MP #MoiraDeeming. He is billed to make a half-hour speech on Saturday morning titled: ‘The quiet #coup: how judicial politicisation threatens democratic society.’”

Tony 🤪 and his nutter mates are getting the band back together.

#RWE / #extremism / #extremists <https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/obama-conspiracy-theorist-to-address-australian-conservative-summit-20260212-p5o1kb.html> / <https://archive.md/e8aIU>

Yesterday's headline, "Former Liberal MP Tim Smith considering return to Spring Street," has created such a storm that the headline has changed to: "Pesutto faces fresh leadership test after being blindsided by MP’s resignation."
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/he-s-back-former-liberal-mp-tim-smith-considering-return-to-spring-street-20230531-p5dcrv.html

tl;dr: Tim Smith is a self-serving fool, and he can't see that he's being used as a pawn in a leadership spill.

Tim Smith has ambitions to return to politics. A few months after drink-driving his car into the side of a house, he feels he's spent his time in the wilderness and wants to get back into Parliament.

Meanwhile, the RWNJ faction of the Victorian Liberal Party are as keen as ever to nudge the Overton Window further to the right. Nowadays, this faction is frothing for Moira Deeming because they're mostly TERFs and Neo-Nazis -- I say "and" here, not "or" because there's such an ideological overlap that they're basically the same type of person.

Seems they see this bye-election as a win-win scenario: if they win the election then the party gains a seat in Parliament, and if they lose the election then the extreme-right faction will use the loss as a pretext to spill John Pesutto and install an even more extreme leader.

All the need is a candidate who's highly visible, can appeal to rusted-on conservative voters, but can also rile-up the extremists.
Tim Smith is the perfect tool for this job.

#AusPol #VicPol #SpringSt #TimSmith #TERF #MoiraDeeming #JohnPesutto #LibSpill