Moira Deeming’s young children began saying ‘my mum’s a Nazi’ amid rally controversy, affidavit claims

Federal court releases tranche of documents from Victorian MP's defamation case against state Liberal leader John Pesutto

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Ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming was distraught" after her young children began saying my mum's a Nazi" amid controversy over a rally she attended, according to an affidavit made public by the federal court.

Deeming is suing the state Liberal leader, John Pesutto, for allegedly falsely portraying her as a Nazi sympathiser after she helped organise and spoke at the Let Women Speak" rally on 18 March 2023 which was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis. She was expelled from the party less than two months later after initially being suspended.

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