Barnaby Joyce affair

[HAL]

Are you still located in Liverpool?

[Culprit]

Now the person wasn't Banaraby's partner whilst he was having sex with her when she was his staffer, but now she is pregnant she is.

Is this obscurantism, or is it just a reflection of the fact that our rules about domestic partnership, in the age of widespread de facto cohabitation, are pretty arcane and ambiguous (as perhaps they must be)?

If you have sex once with your housemate, are you partners? If you and your housemate sleep with each other casually but don't consider each other boyfriend/girlfriend, are you partners? I'm guessing for these purposes, the issues relate to things like nepotism and special treatment, and there may indeed be some things to look at there if Joyce and Campion were already in a sexual relationship when she left his office (which one tends to presume is the case, given the timeline). I expect it's a breach of a code of conduct to employ your partner in your office; but what if they already have the job before you get together? And, again, who decides at what point someone you have sex with becomes your partner?

If we're talking about the law, then the law needs to be clear about what it's referring to. 'Partner', therefore, probably means what 'de facto partner' means under law: someone you've cohabited with and had a sexual relationship with for a year. I hope that any other intended meaning is clarified; if not, perhaps it's about time that it should be.

Social security are busting a lot of single mothers who have a man in their lives. I am sure they can't use the "I'm only bonking him" as defence. Twp sets of rules.

[stui magpie]

If they live together, they're partners.

if you live with your spouse but are rooting someone else on the side, the latter person isn't your partner. Two people in an exclusive relationship who don't live together, can claim to be in a relationship but as they don't cohabit I don't believe they'd meet the criteria.

On David's example, 2 house mates who maintain separate rooms, live separate lives but are occasional F buddies, that get's Gray.

The single mum analogy doesn't work as barnarnaby wasn't living with her

[K]

...
The single mum analogy doesn't work as barnarnaby wasn't living with her

It's just a Bananarby Wannabe Analogy?

[Culprit]

If they live together, they're partners.

if you live with your spouse but are rooting someone else on the side, the latter person isn't your partner. Two people in an exclusive relationship who don't live together, can claim to be in a relationship but as they don't cohabit I don't believe they'd meet the criteria.

On David's example, 2 house mates who maintain separate rooms, live separate lives but are occasional F buddies, that get's Gray.

The single mum analogy doesn't work as barnarnaby wasn't living with her

Apparently he has been and was.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-1 ... fmredir=sm

More double standards.

[Dave The Man]

Government should be Running the Country the anything with this Shit

[Mugwump]

^ yes Dave. But the media run the government and they can sell this stuff far more easily than plans for the Marray-Darling.

[stui magpie]

^ yes Dave. But the media run the government and they can sell this stuff far more easily than plans for the Marray-Darling.

Speaking of which, the Greens are frigging round with that again. If they block things in the senate I hope Vic and NSW go ahead and pull out of the arrangement and tell the Greens to go sit on a cactus

[K]

...
Speaking of which, the Greens are frigging round with that again. If they block things in the senate I hope Vic and NSW go ahead and pull out of the arrangement and tell the Greens to go sit on a cactus

Whatever did the poor cactus do to deserve that fate, Stui?

[stui magpie]

^

The soldier who makes the sacrifice doesn't deserve their fate, but sometimes it's necessary.

[Culprit]

[David]

[K]

[stui magpie]

[Culprit]

You can't bang staffers under new code of conduct.