Moira Deeming’s New Political Home
A great fit for this Christian conservative champion:
Melbourne’s Moira Deeming has been fighting the good fight for quite some time. I have chronicled her journey for a full decade now. Indeed, the first of my 18 articles written about her spoke of her battles within the school system before she got involved in politics. As I wrote ten years ago, quoting from a Herald Sun article:
“A Melbourne high school teacher says she would refuse to teach ‘lewd’ material in the Victorian government’s mandatory respectful relationships program to be introduced in all state schools next year. Moira Deeming, a teacher and mother-of-three, said she was shocked by the content and would rather be fired from her job than teach such ‘sleazy, unnecessary drivel’ to her students….”
Well done Moira Deeming – you are a champion and we need more courageous and principled teachers like you. I hope that many others will be emboldened and follow your example in speaking out about the filth and propaganda that is being rammed down the throats of our vulnerable young people. https://billmuehlenberg.com/2016/10/30/schools-in-meltdown/
Since then, she has had a very full and topsy-turvy political career, including with the Victorian Liberal Party. But in addition to her leftist haters and detractors, the Libs did not treat her much better, basically forcing her out, just like they did to another conservative pro-life and pro-family champ Bernie Finn who had preceded her in the same electorate.
So I have been wondering lately if she would just give up her thankless political life, or become an independent, or something else. I have been praying for her daily, and we know a little while ago there were some suggestions that she might fit in with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.
But today it was announced that her new home will be with Lyle Shelton’s Family First Party. As a News24 article just said:
Moira Deeming will run for Family First at the November Victorian state election after quitting the Liberal Party. The former Liberal MP revealed on Thursday that she will run for the minor party and serve as its leader at the election.
“I am super excited to announce that I’ve joined Family First,” she wrote on social media. “I have long admired their principled stance on a whole range of issues, and I’m very proud to lead the Party into the November election, where I’m running to win my seat in Western Metro. It’s not going to be an easy battle, but there are five seats up for grabs.” https://www.news24.com.au/politics/australian-politics/former-victorian-liberal-mp-moira-deeming-announces-she-will-run-for-family-first-at-state-election-in-november/news-story/310f51a1f04b227dc74a6add810be989
And Lyle was of course with her as this announcement was made. He said this in part in a press release:
I’ve just finished a press conference in Melbourne and wanted to share this announcement with you right away. I also have a time-sensitive request that is of vital importance. Victorian MP Moira Deeming is joining Family First. This is a landmark moment for every Australian who cares about faith, family, and freedom.
I’m sure you know Moira’s story. She stood up for parents’ rights. She fought to protect children. She refused to be silent when the political class demanded silence. The Victorian Liberal Party expelled her from the party room after attending a women’s rights rally. The media, and the Liberal Party, tried to destroy her reputation.
And yet…
She didn’t flinch.
She didn’t retreat.
She kept going.
That kind of courage is almost extinct in Australian politics.
But Moira has it in spades.
And she’s paid for it personally, professionally, and publicly – yet her convictions haven’t moved an inch. Now she’s preparing to contest the November election with Family First!
The opportunity in front of you and I is extraordinary. A proven, battle-tested advocate for families, standing under a banner that unapologetically represents faith, family, and freedom in the Victorian Parliament.
Of course being such a small, struggling party, it will take a fair amount of financial support to see her compete with the big boys – especially with the Uni-party. So there is now a fund-raising campaign that we can all help contribute to: https://www.familyfirstparty.org.au/donate_2609a_vic_wm
Why not follow me in praying for her and Lyle on a daily basis, and contribute something to her fund-raiser?
Moira and Lyle are a great fit – politically, morally and spiritually. I have known both superstars for quite a long time now. It would be such a godsend to see Family First making a major inroad into the barren and dark political landscape that is Victoria.
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I’m overjoyed that Moira Deeming is standing for Lyle Shelton’s Family First Party at the November Victorian state election.
Hearing this good news is like finding water in a parched land!
Well done, Bill, for your singling out Moira for her strong Christian principles when she was a high school teacher, some years before she entered public life.
Both she and Lyle Shelton have demonstrated that they are made of the right stuff.
May God bless them and grant them success in their political endeavours.
Many thanks John. Moira and Lyle certainly need our prayers.
We easily have the most evil federal and Vic state governments in our history. She’s certainly needed.
She sure is Damien.
$3.5m was goven to a 24yr old Chanel Contos a radical far left, feminist by Albo to push internet censorship and brainwash school kids into misandry. Its honestly so sick, authoritarian and down right dystopian!
Yes Damien.
I’ve been reading Lyle Shelton’s ‘I Kid You Not: Notes from 20 Years in the Trenches of the Culture Wars’, published in 2020.
It’s a well-researched and balanced account of many major social issues of that period and it reveals the duplicity of politicians, from PM’s down, their parties and those who support them, possibly without knowing much or any of the background, which is why this book is an eye-opener to those of us who smelt smoke.
It’s incredible, that after what Lyle has been through, his stance has enabled Moira to join Family First and a real encouragement to keep going, even if it means taking small steps, one day at a time.
I’ll have to get his new book ‘Turning the Tide’ when I can.
Thanks Russell. Yes, I reviewed his first book when it appeared back then: https://billmuehlenberg.com/2020/07/15/a-review-of-i-kid-you-not-by-lyle-shelton/
That’s good news that Moira has joined the Family First Party. I couldn’t believe Moira was trying to stay with the Liberal Party for so long. My husband and I got out of the NSW Liberal Party over 15 years ago and joined Fred Nile’s Christian Democratic Party as it was the only party against abortion at the time. The CDP has now ceased. Not sure if Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is against abortion but the Australia One Party was the only party that had ‘Stop Late and Full-Term Abortion’ on its 2023 NSW State election How to Vote.
Thanks Lynette.
I am wishing Moira and Family First all the best for the November election. As you say Bill, Moira has not flinched on her values one bit; this is a rare quality in modern politics.
Quite right Peter.