SYDNEY: Australia’s scandal-hit former deputy prime minister was widely criticised on Tuesday for agreeing to a paid tell-all television interview about an extramarital affair, threatening further disharmony in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government. “It has been very widely criticised,” Turnbull told Tasmanian radio station LAFM, speaking of the interview payment. Joyce and Campion now live together and recently had a child, a son whom Joyce said would be the beneficiary of the interview payment. Joyce added that Campion, as a private citizen, had a right to make money from an already intrusive situation. “In the last fortnight we’ve had drones over our house, we’ve had paparazzi waiting for us,” Joyce told reporters in Canberra.

Source: New Strait Times May 29, 2018 09:11 UTC