The Deputy PM claimed he had only known of the matter for “a couple of weeks” but the scandal went to authorities almost six weeks ago.
It feels like too much effort to fire up over any incident short of about an eight on the sex scandal/sexism Richter scale.
The last time the Nationals were in crisis over a sex scandal,Andrew Broad reached for the words of evangelist Billy Graham.
Labor MPs,union leaders and delegates could barely keep from breaking into a schaudenfreude-fulled jig.
The claims are now the subject of a referral to the Australian Federal Police.