Moira Deeming took the stand in the first week of the defamation case brought against her former boss, Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto.

In Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, Mary Bennet, Jane’s puritanical sister, is recorded as saying: Austin was highlighting the unjust social system where the reputation of a woman can be

Exiled MP Moira Deeming has told the Federal Court that it is completely uncontroversial to observe that women do not have penises and “no man has a vagina” – as protest leaders did at a Let Women Speak rally in Victoria she attended – on the second day of her cross-examination at a defamation trial in Melbourne.

A Victorian court hears a recording of a meeting between then-Liberal MP Moira Deeming and senior party figures, including Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

Follow our live coverage of day two of ousted Victorian Liberal member Moira Deeming’s Federal Court defamation trial against Opposition Leader John Pesutto.

Deeming alleges Pesutto, who is a defamation lawyer, did not tell his lawyers that senior Liberal David Southwick had a recording of the key meeting.

Sky News host Peta Credlin has revealed new details about the stoush between ousted Liberal MP Moira Deeming and Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto as their high-profile legal battle begins in court.