Renee Heath
Renee Heath | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Eastern Victoria Region | |
| Assumed office 26 November 2022 | |
| Secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party[1] | |
| Assumed office 20 December 2022 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Morwell[2] |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Website | https://www.reneeheath.com.au |
Renee Heath is an Australian politician who is a current member for Eastern Victoria Region in the Victorian Legislative Council.[1] She is a member of the Liberal Party and was preselected for the 2022 state election, defeating Cathrine Burnett-Wake as the first person on the Liberal Party's group voting ticket for the Eastern Victoria Region.[3]
Political career and personal life
Following Heath's election and Guy stepping down as leader of the party, this decision to exclude Heath from the parliamentary party was overturned by new Liberal leader John Pesutto.[4] Heath was also appointed by Pesutto to be the Secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party for the 60th Parliament of Victoria.[5] In her inaugural speech, Heath stated that "Victorians should not be told what to think, what to say, how to worship, how to raise their children. This is symptomatic of a failed socialist experiment which has reinvented itself as a cultural movement in our time."[6]On the 12th of May 2023, Heath was demoted from Secretary of the Parliamentary Liberal Party in the wake of a caucus meeting held to vote on the expulsion of fellow Liberal MP Moira Deeming, in which Heath produced three different versions of minutes, one of which was leaked to the media.[7] Heath is considered a close ally of Deeming.[8] In August 2023, Heath appeared ‘at two events attended by conspiracy theorists’ that promoted conspiracies about vaccinations and the ‘deracinating’ of Australia.[9] In 2024, Heath abstained from voting in support of the Labor government’s wind energy target, despite support from the Liberal opposition.[10]
Reference List
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Renee Heath - About". Victorian Parliament. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ↑ "Meet Renee". Renee Heath - Member for Eastern Victoria Region. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ↑ Symons, Bec; King, Charlotte; Burns, Andy (31 August 2022). "Victorian Liberal Party members slam 'infiltration' by hardline Pentecostal groups". ABC News. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedMatthew Guy's promise to bar Renee Heath - ↑ Crozier, Georgie, Member for the Southern Metropolitan Region (20 December 2022). "Shadow Ministry". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Parliament of Victoria: Victorian Legislative Council.
- ↑ Ore, Adeshola; Kolovos, Benita (20 December 2022). "New Victorian Liberal MP tells Labor to 'get out of churches' and rails against 'failed socialist experiment'". Guardian Australia. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
- ↑ "Victorian Liberal leader heralds 'turning point' after vote to expel Moira Deeming — as it happened". ABC News. Australia. 11 May 2023. Retrieved 15 May 2023.
- ↑ "Disunity but not deterred: Why Pesutto still wants to lead". 10 March 2024.
- ↑ "'Let's not talk about us': Liberals won't sanction Renee Heath over speaking events". 11 August 2023.
- ↑ "Disunity but not deterred: Why Pesutto still wants to lead". 10 March 2024.
