Deeming will instead receive a nine-month suspension after she attended an anti-trans rally that was taken over by neo-Nazis, 9News understands.
Leader John Pesutto was earlier confident he would have the numbers to oust Deeming during the 10am Liberal Party meeting at Parliament House.
He needed at least 16 of the 31 members in the Liberal Party room to vote in favour of his motion to expel Deeming, who made an 11th-hour plea for her colleagues to support her in an email.
Pesutto’s motion, which was publicly released on Tuesday, sought to expel Deeming from the parliamentary party room for organising, promoting and attending an anti-trans rights rally headlined by an activist “known to be publicly associated with far-right extremist groups”.
Deeming spoke at the Let Women Speak event held by British anti-transgender activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, who is also known as Posie Parker, outside the Victorian parliament in Melbourne’s CBD on March 20.
A group of neo-Nazis joined the anti-transgender demonstrators and repeatedly performed the Nazi salute.
“I’m concerned about any member of my team having any kind of association with (Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull) and these shared platforms,” Pesutto said after the party meeting.
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The motion also said Deeming’s expulsion was being sought because she met with and published a video with Keen-Minshull, former NSW Liberal candidate Katherine Deeves, and activist Angie Jones after the rally.
“Angie Jones on that day posted on Twitter words that, in the mind of any reasonable and lay observer, made association with Nazis including on 4.41pm by posting the words ‘Nazis and women want to get rid of paedo filth. Why don’t you,'” the motion reads in part.
The Western Metropolitan Region MP immediately vowed to fight the “unjust” push to expel her.
“Let me clear – I have done nothing wrong. Those who organised the Let Women Speak event on the weekend have done nothing wrong,” she said in a written statement on March 22.
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