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Goodbye Pesutto, you won’t be missed

7 January 2025

2:00 AM

7 January 2025

2:00 AM

On December 27 in Spring Street Melbourne, while the state of Victoria was literally on fire, Victorian Liberals were hard at work re-instating Moira Deeming to the Victorian Parliamentary Liberal Party and changing their leader from former lawyer, John Pesutto, to former copper, Brad Battin.

At the centre of the change was the December 12 Federal Court judgement of Justice O’Callaghan in the defamation case of Deeming v Pesutto.

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