Women’s rights advocates ‘not welcome’ in Vic Liberals: Rita Panahi

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Sky News host Rita Panahi said that rather than “notching up a rare win' by supporting Moira Deeming, Victorian Liberal Leader John Pesutto 'opted to out-Dan Dan'.

, with a motion for her expulsion claiming she"engaged in conduct in violation of Clause 57, bringing discredit on the Parliamentary Party". Sky News host Rita Panahi slammed the decision to expel Moira Deeming from the Victorian Liberal Party. Picture: Sky News Australia.

“Whether they're conservative women like Moira Deeming and Renee Heath or left leaning feminists like Angie Jones and the bulk of the women who attended the Let Women Speak protest.” The vote in March was abandoned with Ms Deeming accepting a nine-month suspension, but the issue came to a head again last week after the upper house MP said in an email that she had advised her lawyers to"prepare a legal challenge" over her suspension.

 

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John Pesutto’s ‘clear message’: Women who stand up for their rights are ‘not welcome’Victorian Opposition leader John Pesutto and his leadership team have sent a clear message that women who stand up for women's rights are “not welcome” in their party, says Sky News host Rita Panahi. “By expelling Moira Deeming and punishing Renee Heath, the Vic Libs have gone from their usual habit of shooting themselves in the foot to now shooting themselves in the head – and I'm borrowing a quote there from a senior Liberal MP,' Ms Panahi said. “Let's be clear. Everything that has happened since the Let Women Speak Event, all the damage, all the harm the party's image has copped and the standing in the community … is self-inflicted and caused by John Pesutto and the idiot inner-circle he has surrounded himself with. “The circle of failure.”
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