A FRESH push to oust Barnaby Joyce as Nationals leader erupted after the Deputy PM’s extraordinary attack against Malcolm Turnbull yesterday, sources told The Australian.

 Nationals MPs told The Australian Mr Joyce’s position was “untenable” and demanded he step down before the next party room meeting on Monday or face a leadership spill, after a public war of words between Mr Joyce and Mr Turnbull.

 Mr Joyce’s colleagues said his scathing rebuke of Mr Turnbull threatened to undermine the governing coalition between the Nationals and the Liberals.

One Nationals MP said: “The right action to take is for the Deputy Prime Minister to stand down. The government will be paralysed.”

http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/barnaby-joyce-slams-prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-describes-him-as-inept/news-story/a2edd2e188afdca9005a7ad86e68324d

Memo for Cabinet Room Notice board:

Smart Boss plus Smart Media Advisor = Romance

Smart Boss plus Dumb Media Advisor = Affair

Dumb Boss plus Smart Media Advisor = Matrimony

Dumb Boss plus Dumb Media Advisor = Pregnancy

Interesting that "devout" Christians, as most politicians claim to be, need to be forced to obey the 7th commandment.

Bill and Chloe on wedding day, not  a good look.

What about seat-sniffing ... like Troy Buswell, ex Liberal Member for WA ...

Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison need to be very careful. If they go too hard on Barnaby, rather than winning the women's vote they could lose some votes. 

Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi's affair contributed to the downfall of the Whitlam government.

This whole saga has been very interesting and has confirmed (at least to me) something that I have always believed.  When we make judgments about other people's behaviour we are more forgiving of those we like, than those we don't.  It's really as simple as that, politics aside.

Some will say they don't make judgments, but I think we do, even if it's subconciously, that's human nature.  Even if people choose not to comment, doesn't mean they don't have an opinion and an opinion is a judgment favourable or not.

finally a conservative sex scandal the Lefty hypocrites can circle jerk themselves into a lather about.

We all remember Hawke our PM with Blanch, Tony Bourke, Greg Combet ,Evans  all who loved to use the public purse to futher their sexual desires.

And Shorten who is given an easy ride by his media comrades but still not wanted as PM 

Hypocrisy is the first thing progressives are taught in school and the only subject they managed to master. 

Hi Frank, I have worked in similar enviroments to you, and still feel the same way.  Having no stand either way on the morality of a situation is really a kind of passive acceptance anyway, just my opinion of course.  I have actually found myself finding 'reasons' for the behaviour if the people involved were friends, which in at least one instance they were, while more or less sitting on the fence for other people who weren't close friends.

My ex-husband had a workplace affair that led to our divorce.  I bet you can guess which side of that fence I sat on.  lol. 

As for your other point, not sure about that.  I guess rules are there for a reason, we might not always like them, but in the workplace we are made aware of them and I guess one could say, if you don't like the rules, go elsewhere. I've had more than one boss who has said that, and I find it hard to disagree with. 

If a crime has been committed that's different, then usually it's out of the hands of the workplace (unless they choose not to report it), and the law will take care of it, and if the punishment is too hard, there is always the right of appeal.

Having said all that I think the new 'sex ban' is pretty silly.  Good luck with that one Malcolm.

Oh and to RnR - spot on!!

on the one hand, we live in the world’s most energy rich country but have the world’s most expensive energy and can’t keep the lights on. 

On the other, we have a deputy PM in a relationship with a woman who was on his staff. Which do you think is more embarrassing? Which would the world be laughing at most?

thiis a rule you could never enforce,   men & women,  being what they are,   if they were attracted to someone,   and it was recipricated,   they would go for it,           hopefully, not to the extent that BARNABY did,    but  they were fools,    know the old saying,   its to high to eat grass,    

Barnaby Joyce would still comfortably win New England if an election were held today, with a margin of about 13 per cent.  

Polling by the Nationals in the seat conducted on Wednesday and Thursday last week found Mr Joyce had a primary vote of 52 per cent if he were running against former member Tony Windsor and that he would win by 63-37 on a two-party-preferred basis.