A senior Victorian Liberal MP secretly recorded a pivotal meeting about the political future of Moira Deeming after feeling betrayed by her actions following a rally that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
A senior Victorian Liberal secretly recorded a pivotal meeting over the political future of Moira Deeming as “insurance”, as he felt betrayed by the MP’s actions after a rally she helped organised was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis, a court has heard.recorded a meeting held the day after the rallySouthwick told the court the arrival of the neo-Nazis on the front steps of parliament was “triggering” for him, being Jewish.
Instead, Southwick said Deeming was filmed in a video in the hours after the event, in which she drank champagne with the rally’s organisers. Other women in the video questioned whether the men were actually neo-Nazis or police or trans-rights activists in costume, the court has heard. “I felt that from those events and following from the call, and later from the champagne video, and the trivialisation of what was the darkest day I have known in terms of hate on the steps of parliament, to behave that way and to trivialise what was so offensive to me, I felt that I couldn’t trust Ms Deeming.”“I felt like I had to protect myself from what was about to happen,” he said.
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