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.
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.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has told several colleagues he was feeling the effects of medication mixing with alcohol when he fell off a planter box and continued his phone call.
A crowd gathered on the lawn of Parliament House on Tuesday this week to protest the government’s plan to implement “reckless renewables”.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says he was talking to his wife when he fell off the planter box. “If I’d known I was being filmed,probably would have got up quicker,” he said.
The Nationals may well disrupt the drive to renewable energy,but they could damage the Coalition’s re-election prospects in the process.
This week’s “Rally Against Reckless Renewables” in Canberra has done little more than kick off Climate Wars 2.0.
Is it time for the NSW Liberals and the Nationals to go their separate ways? The Libs seem to think so.