Australian PM Turnbull says coalition ties ‘very strong’ amid deputy’s sex-scandal rift

February 18, 2018 3:00 PM

CANBERRA (BLOOMBERG) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he can “absolutely” continue working with his deputy after the pair met in a bid to avoid fracturing the coalition government amid the fallout from Barnaby Joyce’s extramarital affair with a former staffer.

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