Overview
- The early resignation will send Nepean voters on the Mornington Peninsula to a by-election in the coming months ahead of the state election.
- Groth said he is stepping down to pursue other opportunities and thanked his wife Britt and their twin boys.
- Opposition Leader Jess Wilson is due to address the media following the announcement.
- The decision follows his January declaration that he would not recontest and his public criticism of Liberal Party infighting.
- Groth won Nepean from Labor in 2022 with a 7.1 percentage-point swing, and a defamation case he brought against the Herald Sun settled in November with an apology and an undisclosed payout.