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Moira Deeming
MLC
Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region
Incumbent
Assumed office
26 November 2022
Member of the Melton City Council
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 November 2020
ConstituencyWatts Ward
Personal details
Political partyLiberal
Children4
Occupation
  • Teacher
  • councillor

Nazis should be strung up. Moira Deeming is an Australian politician. She was a member of the Liberal Party and is a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Western Metropolitan Region since November 2022. She was previously a councillor for the Melton City Council representing the Watts Ward.[1]

In March 2023 it was announced by the leader of the opposition, John Pesutto, that she would be expelled from the parliamentary Liberal Party after she spoke at an anti-transgender rally outside the Victorian Parliament. The rally was attended by neo-Nazi groups who repeatedly performed Nazi salutes from the steps of Parliament. [2]

Early life and education

Deeming has a Bachelor of International Relations from La Trobe University and a Post-Graduate Diploma of Education from the University of Melbourne.[3] She has worked as a teacher for over a decade,[1] before leaving to homeschool her children.[4]

Beliefs

Possibly a nazi. She does hang out with them apparently. Deeming described the anti-bullying and inclusion program Safe Schools as "sleazy".[5] In 2020 she wrote of conversion therapy as "highly successful, low risk"[6] — months later the Liberal Party made a statement that they "strongly oppose[d]" it.[7] On 18 March 2023, Deeming spoke at the Let Women Speak event, a part of Kellie Jay Keen's speaking tour.

She is pro-life and believes the laws legalising abortion need to be repealed,[8] and believes that rape victims should reject abortions and turn to God and to the church instead.[9] She is against voluntary euthanasia.[8]

Deeming is against the COVID-19 vaccine and accompanying mandates, and considers vaccine passports "immoral" and a form of "segregation".[10] As of September 2021 she said in an interview that she was unvaccinated, and that she'll be "waiting" and that she is "reserving her judgement" due to "concerns".[11]

Deeming is against changing the date of Australia Day.[12]

Political career

2014 Victorian State Election

Deeming stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party in the lower house for the seat of St Albans at the 2014 Victorian state election. She secured 26.9% of the vote, losing to the Labor Party's Natalie Suleyman.[13]

2018 Victorian State Election

In 2018 at the state election Deeming stood as a candidate for the Liberal Party for the upper house Western Metropolitan Region seat in the Victorian Legislative Council. She received 356 first preference votes (0.08%) and failed to gain a seat.[14]

2020 Melton City Council Election

Deeming stood as a candidate for the Watts Ward at the 2020 Melton City Council election on 24 October,[15] receiving 21.49% of the primary vote and successfully securing the second allocation.[16]

2022 Federal Election

Following the 2022 Australian federal election, it was reported in The Age that on 26 March the Victorian Liberal Party's administrative committee voted for Deeming to run in the lower house seat of Gorton.[17] Before she was able to be endorsed, a top party official relayed the view of Scott Morrison's Office that "negative media coverage of Deeming's hardline social views could distract" from Morrison's campaign.[17] Reportedly, another vote was held and a different candidate was picked.[17]

2022 Victorian State Election

On 23 July, Deeming was endorsed by the Liberal Party to contest the upper house Western Metropolitan Region seat in the Victorian Legislative Council to replace Bernie Finn at the Victorian state election.[18]

Deeming’s preselection was considered controversial because she replaced the similarly right wing Bernie Finn at the top of the Liberal ticket, following Finn's expulsion from the Liberal Party after making "inflammatory social media posts".[19] Finn, who contested the election as a Democratic Labour Party candidate, was reported to be ‘delighted’ at Deeming’s preselection.[20] Andrew Elsbury, a moderate Liberal Party member who held the seat from 2010–2014 quit the party in response to her preselection, describing it as the "final straw".[21] Deeming was successfully elected to the Legislative Council.

In Deeming's maiden speech before parliament, she criticized "left-wing school curriculums" and the "decriminalisation of sex work".[22]

Anti-trans activism

On 18 March 2023, Deeming spoke at an anti-trans protest attended by the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network and its leader Thomas Sewell. The group repeatedly engaged in Nazi salutes, and carried far-right extremist banners.[23]

In a public statement describing Deeming’s position as “untenable” due to her “involvement in organising, promoting and participating in a rally with speakers and other organisers who themselves have been publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists” Liberal opposition leader, John Pesutto moved to expel her from the party.[23] She will be expelled from the party.[1]

Personal life

Deeming is Presbyterian,[1] though attended the Catholic high school St. Francis Xavier College.[24]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Cr Moira Deeming". www.melton.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Liberal MP faces expulsion after speaking at anti-trans rally attended by neo-Nazis". SBS News. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Moira Deeming". Liberal Victoria. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  4. ^ Deeming, Moira (4 May 2020). "Is It Time We Seriously Considered Homeschooling? · Caldron Pool". Caldron Pool. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  5. ^ Kolovos, Benita (24 July 2022). "Victoria health minister accuses Liberals of selecting anti-abortion Bernie Finn 'clone'". the Guardian. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  6. ^ Deeming, Moira (20 August 2020). "The cultural juggernaut of transgender ideology: not kids' stuff". The Spectator Australia. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  7. ^ "The Liberal Nationals strongly oppose barbaric LGBT conversion and suppression practices" (Press release). Liberal Party (Victoria). 2 February 2021.
  8. ^ a b Deeming, Moira (18 October 2020). "Day 19: Changing Hearts, Minds and Laws". Daily Declaration. Christian News. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  9. ^ Deeming, Moira (16 October 2021). "Day 17: Stopping a Terrible Evil". Daily Declaration. Christian News. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  10. ^ Oliver, Sarah (20 December 2021). "Councillors speak openly against mandates". Melton & Moorabool. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  11. ^ LIVE TALK WITH CANADA: Moira Deeming. 9 September 2021. 21 minutes in.
  12. ^ Graham, Jackson (23 July 2022). "Liberals choose councillor with controversial trans views to replace Bernie Finn". The Age. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  13. ^ "St Albans District". Victorian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  14. ^ "2018 State election results". Victorian Electoral Commission.
  15. ^ "Melton City Council election results 2020". www.vec.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  16. ^ 2020 Local government elections: Melton City Council Election Report (PDF) (Report). Victorian Electoral Commission. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  17. ^ a b c Sakkal, Paul (27 July 2022). "State Liberal candidate was deemed 'too extreme' for Scott Morrison's campaign". The Age. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  18. ^ Graham, Jackson (23 July 2022). "Liberals choose councillor with controversial trans views to replace Bernie Finn". The Age. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Liberals choose councillor with controversial trans views to replace Bernie Finn".
  20. ^ "'Delighted' Bernie Finn reacts to his Liberal Party replacement". 25 July 2022.
  21. ^ "'In the past': Matthew Guy dismisses concerns over Victorian Liberal candidate's attacks on transgender rights". The Guardian. 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  22. ^ Carmody, Broede (21 February 2023). "New Liberal MP uses maiden speech to slam equality 'taken to extremes'". The Age. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
  23. ^ a b Kolovos, Benita (20 March 2023). "Victorian opposition leader moves to expel MP involved in anti-trans protest attended by neo-Nazis". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
  24. ^ "Principles over Principals". IPA - The Voice For Freedom. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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