When I talk to the community about the lack of a code for MP behaviour, they are astounded | Cathy McGowan

Without rules, everyone is left floundering and asking: What is private? What is in the public interest? Where are the boundaries?

I remember my reaction upon hearing that a parliamentary staffer, involved in a relationship with then-deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce, was expecting their child.

When I heard the words from a journalist who had engaged in a chat as we left Parliament House on a Wednesday evening in late 2017, I found myself thinking: “How, in this day and age?” And: “No, that just couldn’t be true.”

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