The Liberal Party and suspended MP Moira Deeming were working on a joint statement to avoid another internal party ruction. It was never issued.
and declared it a test of his leadership. Other MPs who spoke at the meeting pointed out the problem inherent in what they were being asked to do.
“If this motion is successful today, you are actually labelling someone a Nazi. Moira is going to have to live with that. It’s like calling someone a murderer, a rapist [or] a paedophile.” By April 26, the date of her third request, Deeming’s tone had shifted from polite to something more ominous. Deeming became angrier still after she learned that at Tuesday’s meeting, one of her strongest supporters, party secretary Renee Heath, was blamed for the unusually expansive form in which the minutes had belatedly been produced.
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