Moira Deeming drops legal case against Victorian Liberal party and makes last-ditch bid to avoid disendorsement

State MP abandons supreme court challenge, saying her party ‘can now decide whether to pursue mediation or reconvene to disendorse me’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has dropped legal action against her own party as she seeks to make a last-ditch appeal to avoid being disendorsed before the state election. Deeming launched an 11th-hour supreme court challenge against the Victorian Liberal party president, Brian Loughnane, on 3 July after she made an assault allegation against former leader Matthew Guy and subsequently rejected calls to apologise after Victoria police determined “there was no offence detected”. Deeming announced late on Wednesday that she had withdrawn the case. “The injunction has achieved exactly what it intended to achieve,” she wrote in a statement posted to social media. The MP, who sits in the upper house for the Western Metropolitan Region, is facing being disendorsed as a candidate before November’s state election. On Wednesday, Deeming sent a 12-page statement to the party’s state executive, providing a mediation proposal that allowed her t