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Flat White

Barnaby Joyce and the return of the scarlet letter

9 February 2018

5:00 PM

9 February 2018

5:00 PM

With all the grubby reporting of a private matter between two consenting adults, the media pack, led by the Daily Telegraph, with ABC’s Leigh Sales not far behind, acted with all the salacious panting that the Anglosphere displays in such matters.

Imagine that news story breaking in France. Well, it wouldn’t, would it? Not really.

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