16 February 2018

Once you start ...

...  where will it end?  The Aussies are about to find out.  The Guardian reports:
Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, will move to ban sexual relationships between ministers and their staff, in response to a scandal which has engulfed the deputy prime minister and leader of the National party, Barnaby Joyce.
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Turnbull said when it came to serving in public life, “values should be lived”.
He said he intended to add “a very clear and unequivocal provision” to the ministerial code of conduct: “Ministers, regardless of whether they are married or single, must not engage in sexual relations with staff.”
Does that mean that it is ok to have an affair with a person on someone else's staff?  Or for Ministers to have affairs with each other?  If not, what a gloomy (and frustrated) place the Canberra parliament will be ...

 
 
   

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