He should have apologised
The ABC reports:
There are concerns that former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto will be bankrupted after being ordered to pay costs of $2.3 million after losing his defamation battle with Moira Deeming. …
The Federal Court order handed down on Friday morning, raises the prospect Mr Pesutto will be bankrupted and forced out of state parliament.
Ms Deeming successfully sued Mr Pesutto after he moved to expel her from the party room in 2023 after she attended an anti-trans-rights rally that was gatecrashed by Neo-Nazis.
He threw his own MP to the wolves and smeared her because she attended a women's rights rally. A court found he had defamed her. He thought she would not dare fight back against the party leader, but he underestimated her. Maybe it was her Maori ancestry that made her so tenacious, but she fought and won.
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