Australia’s prime minister and his deputy exchanged hostile words Thursday over politically damaging revelations that the deputy is expecting a baby with a former press secretary. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce of making a “shocking error of judgment” by having an office affair that hurt his wife, his four daughters and his new partner who is due to give birth in April. “He has set off a world of woe for those women and appalled all of us,” Turnbull said. Joyce said ministers in his Nationals party, the junior partner in the coalition government, would abide by the new rule. In a move interpreted by some as punishing his deputy, Turnbull announced Thursday that Joyce would not become acting prime minister next week when Turnbull travels to the United States.

Source: Fox News February 16, 2018 10:52 UTC