{"id":59069,"date":"2018-02-17T05:57:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=59069"},"modified":"2018-02-17T05:57:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T05:57:38","slug":"australias-pm-meets-deputy-to-fix-sex-scandal-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/australias-pm-meets-deputy-to-fix-sex-scandal-split.html","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s PM meets deputy to fix sex-scandal split"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Australia&#8217;s PM meets deputy to fix sex-scandal split<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has held crisis talks with his deputy Barnaby Joyce to heal a dangerous rift that is threatening the ruling coalition\u2019s one-seat majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">A source with knowledge of the talks told Reuters that the pair met for an hour on Saturday and agreed to move on from a public spat over Joyce\u2019s extra-marital affair with his former press secretary, who is now pregnant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">The source requested anonymity as they were not authorized to speak on the record, and would not give specific details of what was discussed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Turnbull, who introduced a ban on sexual relationships between ministers and their staff on Thursday, said Joyce had shown \u201cshocking error of judgment\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">He told Joyce to take leave and consider his position, leaving Finance Minister Mathias Cormann as acting prime minister while Turnbull visits the U.S. next week.The Senate on Thursday passed a motion for Joyce to resign, saying he had breached standards of behavior expected of a minister.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Joyce hit back on Friday, saying the prime minister\u2019s \u201cinept\u201d comments had caused further harm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Joyce leads the rural-based National Party, the junior partner in the centre-right government led by Turnbull\u2019s Liberal Party, a political alliance that has existed since 1923.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Turnbull refused to comment on Joyce\u2019s criticism but the tiff fueled pressure on him to sack his deputy, which would have put the coalition government\u2019s razor-thin majority at risk ahead of the prime minister\u2019s overseas travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Former prime minister Tony Abbott took a thinly-veiled swipe at Turnbull earlier on Saturday, saying in a televised interview from Melbourne that one party shouldn\u2019t give another party public advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">\u201cIf a member of parliament has something to say to another member of parliament he or she should knock on the door or pick up the phone,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-australia-politics-joyce\/australias-pm-meets-deputy-to-fix-sex-scandal-split-idUSKCN1G107F<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/australias-pm-meets-deputy-to-fix-sex-scandal-split.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s PM meets deputy to fix sex-scandal split Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has held crisis talks with his deputy Barnaby Joyce to heal a dangerous rift that is threatening the ruling coalition\u2019s one-seat majority. 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