{"id":12539,"date":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-s-mp-sex-ban-has-been-slammed\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T00:00:00","slug":"prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-s-mp-sex-ban-has-been-slammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/prime-minister-malcolm-turnbull-s-mp-sex-ban-has-been-slammed\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull\u2019s MP Sex Ban Has Been Slammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Channel Nine\u2019s Today show host Karl Stefanovic has ridiculed Prime Minister Turnbull\u2019s sex ban for ministers and their staff as nothing more than a \u201cPR stunt\u201d as the fallout continues from the Barnaby Joyce scandal.<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"951\" width=\"634\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/barnaby-joyce.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe Prime Minister knew about this affair last year,\u201d Stefanovic said on Friday. \u201cHe knew about it before the by-election and he chose to turn a blind eye.\u201d<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWhy was he moralising yesterday and not then?\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Senior Liberal minister Christopher Pyne defended the PM, saying circumstances had changed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhat Barnaby Joyce has been doing in his private life, nobody wants to pry into but sadly&#8230; this last week, the private became the public,\u201d Mr Pyne said.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThat has not been good for the government, for the Joyce family, good for Barnaby or good for his new partner and the Prime Minister made that quite clear.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cClearly, it did need to be spelt out in the code which of course is incredibly disappointing.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cBut obviously over the last week it\u2019s become more apparent that what was common sense had been breached.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlboMP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlboMP<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cpyne?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cpyne<\/a> weigh in on the Barnaby Joyce saga and the Prime Minister&#39;s actions yesterday. 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