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.
Alcohol is a force in our national politics,but the way Australians read the act of drinking depends both on the times and the person,and the ways the two are entangled.
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.
The former deputy prime minister scored a 50 per cent-plus uptick in value in the more than 10 years he owned it.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud said renewable development in regional Australia is at saturation point.
The hypocrisy of the confected indignation from the Coalition and accusations of “lying” over Labor’s amendment to the stage 3 tax cuts is staggering.
Cabinet documents reveal the Howard government moved quickly to lock in a claim over huge areas of the seabed across the Pacific,Indian and Southern oceans,including key areas off Australia’s Antarctic territory.