John Pesutto recorded saying Victorian Liberals were being ‘associated with Nazis’ due to Moira Deeming rally, court hears

Defamation trial hears secretly recorded audio of senior party figures the day after MP attended protest gatecrashed by neo-Nazis

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The ousted Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming told members of the party’s leadership team she was “obviously” not a Nazi in a secretly recorded meeting a day after she spoke at a Melbourne rally.

Deeming is suing the state Liberal leader, John Pesutto, for allegedly falsely portraying her as a Nazi sympathiser after she spoke at the March 2023 “Let Women Speak” rally that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.

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