A week after scolding Barnaby Joyce over his extramarital affair and suggesting he consider his options, Malcolm Turnbull has backed away from the scandal surrounding the Deputy Prime Minister and paralysing the Nationals
In Washington DC for three days, the Prime Minister declined to endorse Mr Joyce nor suggest to the junior Coalition partner what course of action it should take when the Nationals party room meets Monday.
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