Turnbull, Joyce Meet in Sydney Amid Fallout Over Sex Scandal
- Leaders agreed they need to work together, ABC, Sky report
- Strained relations threatened to destabilize ruling coalition
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
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Australia’s two most senior lawmakers met on Saturday in a bid to avoid fracturing the nation’s coalition government amid the fallout from Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital affair with a former staffer.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull met with Joyce for more than an hour in Sydney and agreed they need to work better together in the future, according to ABC and Sky News. Turnbull’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.