Perspective: Poor Michael McCormack, otherwise called Whatsisname and more widely unknown as “Never Heard of Him” | tonyowright
Each of these blokes was a mere stopped heartbeat from leading the nation, and actually ran it when the prime minister was away.Jammed among the ranks of the beige and the pleasantly forgettable was the dazzlingly colourful - beetroot, to be precise - Barnaby Joyce.
Suffering complications relating to his spectacular love life, Barnaby resigned a year ago, and has apparently loathed his decision ever since., arguing that he is the “elected deputy prime minister of Australia”. Joh Bjelke-Petersen at the height of his "Joh for Canberra" baroque period could barely have been capable of such bulldust.
Apart from the small matter of the resignation, Barnaby was never elected deputy prime minister - he wrangled the title out of his little band of parliamentary colleagues.You could argue he wasn’t properly elected to Parliament at all: no less than the High Court ruled he hadn’t been eligible to stand for his seat of New England in the first place, courtesy of his dual citizenship.
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