Perin Davey says she didn’t think she was drunk after stumbling in her speech during a parliamentary hearing,days after Barnaby Joyce was filmed lying on a Canberra footpath.
Barnaby Joyce’s recent behaviour has reignited debate about federal parliament’s workplace standards and culture.
A political fight is brewing over new rules to punish badly behaved MPs,more than two years after the then-Morrison government agreed to create a federal watchdog to police politicians’ behaviour.
Is Barnaby Joyce’s behaviour ‘absolutely unacceptable’ or does he just have a ‘touch of the larrikin’? Readers told us what they thought of the National MP’s latest misadventure.
While our pollies head for the casting couch.
When images of Barnaby Joyce lying on a footpath late at night,seemingly incapacitated,went viral,it triggered a series of political explosions.
The Nationals MP has not yet decided whether to take leave,as critics within his own party rebuke him and allies urge him to hang on.
Housing is a human right. Come on,PM and premier. Think outside the square. It’s time for nation-building by real Labor governments.
Footage of our former deputy prime minister lying on his back mumbling profanities will be replayed worldwide for years as shorthand for Australian politicians.
Former party leader Michael McCormack has urged Joyce to open up about his medical condition and seek the help he needs.
Unless within the privacy of their own homes our politicians are always on public show. It goes with the job.