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Affair with ex-staffer could cost Australian Deputy PM his job
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Feb 15, 2018 11:19pm |
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| Category | Scandal |
| Author | Peter van Onselen |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 13, 2018 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (CNN)Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is perhaps best known for the Pistol and Boo affair -- when he threatened actor Johnny Depp with perjury over bringing his dogs into the country illegally.
But it's a very different type of affair which is now engulfing the Deputy PM and leader of the Nationals Party.
Joyce announced the break up of his marriage late last year, and just last week it was revealed that he's living with a former staffer who is expecting his child in April.
Rumors of an affair and a pregnancy were circulating last December when Joyce was forced to contest his own seat after breaching rules which bar foreign nationals from serving in parliament.
Last week, Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph ran a page one photo of Joyce's pregnant new partner, Vikki Campion, sparking a nationwide debate about whether or not politicians' private lives should be public business.
Unlike many other countries, the Australian media has largely shied away from reporting on the private lives of its politicians.
The Joyce affair has led to other accusations of inappropriate dealings by the deputy PM, which so far have been strongly denied.
Of more concern for Joyce's political survival is the timing of when his now partner worked for him as well as other senior members of the government. Arguably even though their relationship was consensual, it was a fiduciary relationship between a boss and a subordinate. |
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