Inbred Tomato will not be Acting PM

Thursday, 15 February 2018

As with all things Do-nothing Malcolm, it is now turning into a circus:

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce is taking leave while Malcolm Turnbull is in the US next week and will not take the role of acting prime minister.

Mr Turnbull announced in Question Time that Mr Joyce would be on leave from the 19th until the 25th of February. The Prime Minister said deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop would be overseas next week, leaving the role of acting prime minister to be taken by Senate Leader Mathias Cormann.

Because that will solve everything.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.