Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his disgraced deputy Barnaby Joyce met face-to-face in Sydney on Saturday to try to resolve the damaging public crisis engulfing the coalition government.
The pair are understood to have met at about midday for more than an hour.
Joyce has been under pressure to quit after it was revealed he has been having an affair with one of his staff, who is now pregnant. It’s just the latest controversy Joyce has managed to find himself in, after he was caught up in a dual nationality scandal that could have cost him his senate seat and the high-profile tit-for-tat row with Johnny Depp over the actors dog.
His meeting with Turnbull came as the internal rift in the coalition took a turn for the worse.
Liberal senator Ian Macdonald appeared on ABC and called on Joyce to resign to the backbench.
