“Barnaby Joyce has been elected leader of the National party at a federal level and will therefore be going through the various situations that he has to go through,” Damian Drum, a whip in the National party, told reporters in Canberra.
McCormack declined to answer questions adding only: “That’s democracy”.
Joyce will need to be sworn in as Australia’s deputy prime minister later, which would then initiate a Cabinet reshuffle. — Reuters
