Your afternoon Briefing

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news this Monday.

Good afternoon, readers. Here’s what made news this Monday.

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Nationals MP Michael McCormack, Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce and Ian Macfarlane during a Division in the House of Representatives Chamber at Parliament House in Canberra.

Turnbull initiated Joyce investigation

The PM asked the secretary of his department to investigate whether Barnaby Joyce had breached the ministerial guidelines by having a relationship with his one-time staff member Vikki Campion, but the investigation has now been sensationally called off.

The information, revealed for the first time in an estimates hearing this afternoon, shows the Prime Minister was apparently looking for ways to remove Mr Joyce from office.

Keep up to date with all the happenings in Parliament House here.

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The 60 Minutes segment has angered New Zealanders.

Ardern’s ‘creepy horror show’

New Zealanders have slammed a 60 Minutes Australia profile on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, saying it should have come with a vomit bag and an “R” rating.

In the 13-minute segment, Charles Wooley marvelled at Ms Ardern’s age and appearance.

“I’ve met a lot of prime ministers in my time, but none so young, not too many so smart, and never one so attractive”, he said.

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Spokesperson for the National Rifle Association (NRA) Dana Loesch speaks during the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Oxen Hill, Maryland on February 22, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON

‘She can bring the hot sauce’

Dana Loesch is the new public face of the National Rifle Association, an organisation long associated with older white men.

“Imagine Wayne LaPierre sitting in that seat and you realise the significance of Dana,” said conservative radio host Charlie Sykes.

“She can bring the hot sauce without having that (angry white man) persona.”

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Dec. 1940. British Prime Minister politician Sir Winston Churchill in Cabinet Room at No. 10 Downing Street. Portrait by Cecil Beaton : FILE PHOTO

Churchill had a ‘professional mistress’

For decades it was just gossip. No historian could be sure Winston Churchill was unfaithful to his wife, Clementine.

Now, a witness has emerged to say the rumours about the statesman and Doris Castlerosse, the promiscuous great-aunt of model and actor Cara Delevingne, were in fact true.

Catch up on all the details here.