there was a risk Moira Deeming could be dropped in favour of Indian community leader Dinesh Gourisetty, who was challenging her at this weekend’s preselection.

Deeming, who was only contesting the top spot on the ticket, will now lose her seat at the Victorian election later this year after the party delegates voted 37-29 against her.

The vote is conducted with delegates from Western suburbs branches and a random selection from metropolitan Melbourne to make up the numbers.

According to the Guardian:

‘Gourisetty attempted preselection in 2022, but he failed to secure the backing of the then-state party president, Robert Clark, and his allies, in part due to breaches of the Food Safety Act he pleaded guilty to in 2019. It led to Deeming’s preselection…’

This time, Gourisetty was successful with a wide margin of support.


Conservatives have taken to social media to vent their frustration at losing one of the most recognisable and respected members of the state Liberal team.

Deeming has been put through hell ever since the 2023 Let Women Speak rally where she was falsely (and ridiculously) accused of being associated with neo-Nazis who gate-crashed the rally. The black-clad group were regular agitators in Victoria before they were disbanded following the post-Bondi hate groups legislation.

Readers will remember the insanity of that saga, so we won’t repeat it here. Suffice to say, rolling Deeming after she survived attacks on her character is unlikely to go well for the Liberals at the next election where voters will pass judgment on the preselection result.

In the final days before the Victorian preselection, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott attempted to wade into battle, but it was far too little too late. There was probably no hope for her anyway, given the moderate faction’s opinion on the demise of Pesutto’s leadership, however self-inflicted it may have been.

Party leader, Jess Wilson, backed Deeming publicly (albeit weakly) along with other sitting members. This result has likely cemented the view that her leadership is too moderate to face-off against the One Nation challenge.

Worse, the loss of Deeming may have wider ramifications for the Liberal movement in general, as Deeming is a regular speaker at conservative events and one of the few who enjoys name recognition across the country.

Moira Deeming showed incredible strength by refusing to throw the Let Women Speak rally under the bus during the height of the anti-biology panic.

While it is rumoured some may view removing Deeming as a way to erase the ‘distraction’ that her conflict with Pesutto created, the voting public will likely interpret it negatively.

It will surprise no one that One Nation has immediately renewed its offer to Deeming. Given what we saw in South Australia, the Liberals may have just handed One Nation another chunk of the base.

State president Warren Pickering said: ‘Regardless of the direction the Liberal Party of Victoria has chosen to take, we’d hate to see Moira left in the same political wilderness with which the party itself has chosen to explore.’

As our Editor-in-Chief, Rowan Dean, tweeted today: Final act: Moira Deeming joins One Nation and runs for the same seat and wins it…
https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/03/victorian-liberals-drop-moira-deeming/

And Sydney.

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That absolutely sums up exactly what we are experiencing!   

Frank wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2026 at 1:20pm:


Why ? You would fit right in at a bar full of cartoon characters ?

Dnarever wrote on May 20^th, 2026 at 12:52pm:




You are confusing me with Apu Karnal. He's the paki running the KwikiKrap Mart in Auburn, not me, duckwit.

Frank wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2026 at 7:54am:


We should listen and take heed of our historians like John Hirst who was a public intellectual and social commentator.  He argued that "while multiculturalism might serve the needs of ethnic politics and the demands of certain ethnic groups for government funding for the promotion of their separate ethnic identity, it is a perilous concept on which to found national policy. Multiculturalism denies the very notion of a host nation. However this may serve the needs of ethnic politics. As a serious historical or sociological analysis it is nonsense. To found policy on it may be perilous."

Historian Geoffrey Blainey achieved mainstream recognition as a critic of multiculturalism when he wrote that multiculturalism threatened to transform Australia into a "cluster of tribes".  Which we have found to be totally correct. In fact those clusters of tribes have evolved into several parallel societies, the most prominent of which is the Islamic society which is growing rapidly at an alarming pace due to our unchecked mass immigration. In his 1984 book All for Australia, Blainey criticised Australian multiculturalism for tending to emphasise the rights of ethnic minorities at the expense of the majority population and for being "anti-British."

As the Financial Review stated ... this is a wake-up call about the threat of ancient hatreds imported from the Middle East hardening into religious-based political tribalism here.

Which the UK has found to their detriment and we are now experiencing down here to a lesser but growing degree.  Just as the French and other parts of Europe are experiencing as their societies are trashed and burnt with the help of the useful idiots.  The Islamics will never back off.