Pro-parental Australian politician wins defamation lawsuit against pro-trans politician
One good form of news from Down Under:
An Australian politician will pay big for defaming a lawmaker who rejects transgender radicalism as a “Nazi.” A judge ruled Thursday that Victorian Liberal Party leader John Pesutto must pay $300,000 to MP Moira Deeming — but his economic damage will be far more extensive.Whiie this is impressive news, it's still a shame that Australia still suffers from severe antisemitism, which is equally dangerous, and has allowed violent Islamofascists and their sympathisers to run roughshod and attack Jewish sources. Some of said sympathisers include LGBT activists, sadly. And the Labour party is going to have to answer to stuff like that too, as is the local press.
Deeming won election to the Victorian Legislative Council as a member of the Liberal Party (which, in Australia, is the more conservative party as compared to the Labour Party). Her first speech in parliament showed her dedication to parental rights, women’s privacy, and protecting children from the transgender movement. In March 2023, she took part in a “Let Women Speak” rally in Melbourne, featuring former actress Posie Parker (Kellie-Jay Keen).
That rally was gatecrashed by a group of neo-Nazis — much the way conservative events have been raided by the shadowy, little-known group calling itself The Patriot Front. The Lincoln Project has also sent paid actors cosplaying neo-Nazis to crash an event hosted by Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R).
Pesutto seized on the event to accuse Deeming of “associating with” and offering “help” to Nazis and moved to expel her from the Liberal Party. The Sydney Morning Herald reports Pesutto was “fuelled by a ‘preoccupation’ with the political advantage the then premier, Daniel Andrews, would extract from the episode.” He began a media campaign to drum Deeming out of the party that became so effective that, at one point, Deeming’s young children began saying, “My mum’s a Nazi.” This May, Deeming’s fellow Liberal Party legislators voted 19-11 to expel her from the Liberal Party; she now serves as an independent MP and sits on the crossbench.
Federal Court Justice David O’Callaghan ruled that Pesutto had committed defamation by “using mass media to communicate a message to the general public in Victoria, to cause serious harm to Mrs. Deeming’s reputation. That is especially so in circumstances where the leader of her own Parliamentary party was moving for her expulsion from it.”
A source “close to the case” told The Herald Sun that Pesutto turned down an offer to settle for $99,000, only to lose a ruling three times that much. With legal fees, the source said, Pesutto faces $2 million over his “Nazi” remarks.
“I am just so delighted with today’s result, and I am very grateful to the court for their prompt consideration. I just want to say thank you to everybody who stood by me and we’re just going to get out there and continue to get back sex-based rights for women and child safeguards for children,” said Deming after the ruling.
Pesutto has refused to resign his leadership post over his self-inflicted humiliation. Liberal Party legislators are currently weighing how to proceed.
It is welcome news that no one — not even a prominent provincial party leader — can slur pro-family politicians with impunity.
Labels: Australia, lgbt cultism, misogyny, Moonbattery, sexual violence, terrorism
