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Fletcher won't offer gratuitous advice' on Moira Deeming move

The vote on whether or not first term Victorian upper house Liberal Moira Deeming will remain in the Liberal party is to be held today (there is a party room meeting in just under two hours).

What I support is that the leader in Victoria and the party room in Victoria.

My Victorian state colleagues will make the decision that they determine is in the best interests of the Liberal party but, more importantly, of the people of Victoria who they seek to serve.

I'm not going to be offering commentary on these matters.

I'm not going to be commenting on hypotheticals.

My view is that we are a party with a diverse range of views. And what's very important is that we can have a vigorous exchange of views within our party room. We take our internal party democracy, democratic process very seriously. And that is how it should be. And look, I'm not going to get into ruling in or ruling out particular viewpoints on this or any other issue in an abstract, hypothetical way.