Questions are being asked if public money was misused to move Ms Campion to a “high-salary” digital and social media position in the office of Nationals Senator Matt Canavan, who previously served as Mr Joyce’s chief of staff. The position wasn’t filled in the months after Ms Campion left Canavan's office.

I agree with Foxy's point that his partner should have been left out of this. The ex-wife has also been in the papers and she should not have been mentioned.

I also agree with the widely held view that spoke of the sanctity of traditional marriage while having an affair. However, we have all cast some type of moral judgement and we have all failed to live up to our own standards at some stage in our life. Those people who judge others harshly for hypocracy rarely seem to fully grasp the concept.

@guru Whatever his faults, I am not aware of Mr Abbott having cheated on his wife. I wonder if you aren't confused.

Turnbull surprised me again today by mentioning how Joyce's wife and daughters must be feeling. Very sensitive and thoughtful of him.

The questions about the job for Ms Campion, which need to be answered. How, and where was the "job" advertised, how many other applicants were interviewed, how much was the salary, how was it determined, why was the position unfilled after Ms Campion left and was the position available before Ms Campion arrived on the scene. If the public are paying for this, which they were, they have a right to know. We don't need to know how many times a week her and Barnyard were bonking.
I suspect the highly paid job just materialised out of thin air, and disappeared just as quickly. I also suspect it was not advertised, and Ms Campion was the only applicant.

Bit like Turnballs 10% average pay hike given to his staffers recently, by Turnballs himself. While the rest of the PS have their pay increases capped at 2%.

With the technology available to prevent conception the objects of our concern may have been swept up in an all-consuming passion. If so they were a man and a woman acting as men and women have been for ages, and it was not a cold, calculating union, but a moment of passion such as those who have experienced it are fortunate to know. The fact they are now living together might mean the feeling continues. While it seems as though there was corruption in the job made for Campion and the family has been severely injured human nature has triumphed.

//What do you make of Shorten's infidelity?//

Was Shorten going on about the sanctity of marriage whilst he was 'hiking the Appalachian trail? Because if he wasn't then his adultery was just adultery, not hypocrisy as well.

Silly old Barnaby. He could have had his affair and nobody would have given a damn (except his wife, presumably), as long as he had the sense to keep his stupid mouth shut during the SSM debate.

//However, we have all cast some type of moral judgement and we have all failed to live up to our own standards at some stage in our life.//

We're not all politicians and thus not under constant scrutiny and held to a higher standard than the plebs. It concerns me that Barnaby 'Sanctity of Marriage' Joyce just doesn't seem to have realised that his rank hypocrisy would tarnish his political image.