Moira Deeming has told her Liberal colleagues she is trying to avoid the party’s “self-destruction” by challenging a push to revoke her candidacy for November’s election.

Had the Liberal Party emptied a vat of hydrochloric acid onto the floor of parliament instead of selecting Moira Deeming to represent it, it would have done less damage to its…

The embattled MP will appear in court on Friday morning, hours before the party was due to decide whether she should remain a candidate for November’s state election.