Barnaby Joyce Is Replaced as Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister<br />25, 2018<br />SYDNEY, Australia — Barnaby Joyce officially resigned Monday as Australia’s deputy prime minister, clearing the way for a replacement — Michael McCormack, the veterans affairs minister — who was named to the post in an awkward news conference<br />that included Mr. Joyce sulking in the back of a National Party gathering he had grown used to leading.<br />" Mr. Joyce said on Feb. 16. that This was a personal issue, a personal issue that’s been dragged into the public arena,<br />Mr. Joyce’s affair with his staff member quickly snowballed from a sex scandal to something more significant: A symbol of the insular, booze-fueled<br />and secretive culture of Canberra, Australia’s capital.<br />Mr. Joyce resisted resigning for weeks — even after Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scolded him in public<br />and after complaints about sexual harassment began to emerge.<br />Mr. Joyce’s affair was widely known among the press corps in Canberra, Australia’s capital,<br />but not publicly disclosed even as voters went to the polls.
