Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has told several colleagues he was feeling the effects of medication mixing with alcohol when he fell off a planter box and continued his phone call.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will question Barnaby Joyce this week about why the former deputy prime minister wasswearing on the telephone after a long parliamentary sitting day.
This masthead is not aware of the precise nature of Joyce’s health situation nor the type of medication. Echoing Joyce’s wife and others who sympathised with Joyce, Dutton said on Sky News it was “pretty rough” that a passerby chose to film the MP rather than helping him off the ground.Littleproud said Joyce had expressed embarrassment and added it was his job as party leader to support Joyce’s wellbeing.Nationals leader David Littleproud said it was his job to support Joyce’s wellbeing.
Littleproud spoke with Joyce last week and is expected to again speak with his leadership rival this week. Joyce’s recent anti-renewables rhetoric has sharpened and isas he attempts to conserve the Coalition’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2050.
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