One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has ruled out offering Moira Deeming a place in her party, saying the embattled Victorian Liberal MP lacks the “integrity and honesty” required to join One Nation.
The comments come as the Victorian Liberal Party prepares to decide whether Ms Deeming should remain its No. 1 upper house candidate for the Western Metropolitan Region at the November state election.
Ms Deeming is under pressure inside the Liberal Party after refusing to apologise to former opposition leader Matthew Guy over a police complaint in which she alleged he had put her in a “headlock” at a community event.
Victoria Police later closed the investigation after reviewing CCTV footage and found no offence had been detected.
Mr Guy has strongly denied wrongdoing and demanded an apology. Ms Deeming has said through her lawyer that she misunderstood the technical meaning of the word “headlock”, but maintains her complaint was made honestly and in good faith.
With the Liberal Party considering whether to strip her candidacy, speculation had grown over whether Ms Deeming could seek a political future with One Nation.
But Senator Hanson has now flatly rejected that possibility.
“No, don’t want her,” Senator Hanson said.
She accused Ms Deeming of lacking loyalty, saying the Victorian MP had previously agreed to defect to One Nation before blindsiding the party by staying with the Liberals.
Senator Hanson said that episode raised serious questions about Ms Deeming’s character.
According to Senator Hanson, One Nation was not interested in taking on someone she believed had failed the test of loyalty, honesty and integrity.
The intervention leaves Ms Deeming politically exposed as the Liberal Party weighs her future.
Ms Deeming currently holds the top position on the Liberal ticket for Western Metropolitan Region, a spot that would ordinarily make re-election highly likely.
The Liberal Party’s state executive is expected to consider whether to revoke her candidacy, while the parliamentary party is not expected to expel her from the party room.
The dispute has placed Opposition Leader Jess Wilson in a difficult position just months before the state election.
Ms Wilson has said Ms Deeming should apologise to Mr Guy, but has declined to detail her role in the internal push to remove Ms Deeming from the ticket.
The timing is damaging for the Liberals, who are attempting to present themselves as a disciplined alternative government while Labor faces pressure over cost of living, crime, debt and infrastructure blowouts.
Instead, the party is again dealing with internal turmoil involving Ms Deeming, whose political career has repeatedly been at the centre of Liberal Party conflict.
She was previously expelled from the parliamentary party room under former leader John Pesutto after attending a women’s rights rally that was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
She later won a defamation case against Mr Pesutto and was readmitted to the Liberal Party room.
Her preselection for the 2026 election had already become a flashpoint after earlier moves to keep her off the ticket collapsed.
Now, with Senator Hanson closing the door on One Nation, Ms Deeming may have fewer political options if the Liberal Party removes her as a candidate.
The episode also comes as One Nation surges in Victorian polling, with the party now presenting itself as a serious threat to both Labor and the Coalition.
For Senator Hanson, rejecting Ms Deeming appears to be an attempt to draw a clear line around who One Nation is prepared to accept as the party grows.
For Ms Deeming, it is another blow at a critical moment.
She faces possible disendorsement by the Liberals, no open invitation from One Nation, and a narrowing path to the November election.
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