Barnaby’s Greater Infidelity

Barnaby has come and gone, apart from his bizarre odd and perhaps further public commentary on the paternity of his lover’s unborn child.  Many keystrokes, pro and con, have been spent on his amorous adventures and  I do not propose to wade any deeper into these morally murky waters.  Nor will I seek to comment on Barnaby’s contribution to Australian politics, arguably thin. Nor is it worth the words to recount in full his brief status as a tongue-in-cheek contender for the title of Kiwi of the Year.

Rather, I wish to lament the departed Nationals leaders’ real infidelity: before he walked out on his wife and family, Joyce walked out on his duly elected Prime Minister, Tony Abbott.  And in doing so, he walked out on the Australian people.

This appalling lapse by one of the few Australians who, at the time, could have halted the back-stabbing rise of Malcolm Turnbull’s drive to confirm his own greatness, helped usher in what many will regard as amongst the worst and lowest…