Barnaby Joyce Sleeping with your staff is bad practice, says Scott Morrison Treasurer plays down rift between Turnbull and Joyce and says the pair’s meeting on Saturday shows they can have frank conversations Scott Morrison says Malcolm Turnbull was not telling the National party how to act when he criticised Barnaby Joyce. Morrison was sent out on Sunday to assure voters that all was well, while quibbling over whether the prime minister had ever advised Joyce to step down. “That was a direct position to the deputy prime minister, not to the National party. Morrison said Joyce’s position in the National party was a matter for that party. “There is no demurring from the substance of what the prime minister said on Thursday.

Source: The Guardian February 18, 2018 02:03 UTC