“Traditional marriage” advocate Barnaby Joyce expecting baby with ex-staffer

“Traditional marriage” advocate Barnaby Joyce expecting baby with ex-staffer

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, who opposed marriage equality and spoke about the need to support “traditional” families, is expecting a baby with a former staffer.

Joyce confirmed he has split from his wife Natalie, with whom he has four children, and is expecting a child with new partner Vikki Campion, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

Campion was previously Joyce’s media adviser.

Joyce was openly against same-sex marriage during last year’s debate, telling Yes campaigners to “get out of my face”.

Despite his New England electorate returning a Yes vote in the postal survey, he refused to represent their say in December, leaving the parliamentary chamber before the final vote.

“The current definition of marriage has stood the test of time—half of them fail, I acknowledge that,” Joyce said in parliament in December.

“I’ll acknowledge that I’m currently separated, so that’s on the record.”

Joyce and Campion have so far declined to comment publicly on their relationship.

During the marriage debate, he complained that Yes campaigners were persecuting him— “yelling at me, telling me if I don’t agree with them I’m somehow less than human”.

A long-time opponent of same-sex marriage, his earlier, more bizarre claims included that marriage equality would somehow harm Australia’s cattle trade.

Prior to announcing his separation last year, Joyce had frequently spoken about his wife and daughters and the importance of “traditional” marriage.

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12 responses to ““Traditional marriage” advocate Barnaby Joyce expecting baby with ex-staffer”

  1. Being bloody mindedly unable to view his own hypocrisy from the perspective of everyone else – it’s a gift!

  2. What an oxymoron that phrase “Traditional Marriage” has become.
    That Barnaby had an extra-marital affair is nothing new. Millions of women and men who took those absurd, discredited, ignored vows before their Jahwah/Allah/God/Jehovah call’em what you will they are one and the same mythological being whom people believe in and stand before him (Note: God is always a “Him”, simply because he was invented by men to control other men and women with those absurd threats of Hell, Purgatory etc.) and swear to “Love, Honour and , for Women only, Obey, eschewing all others until Death do us part, blah, blah, blah” and then, sometimes within months they break up, sometimes within days one or other or both shag some other person – male or female for some it doesn’t matter which.
    Did Barnaby vote “No” in the Parliament or did he simply abstain?
    That he broke his Marriage Vows is none of our business. Just because he is a politicians doesn’t make it any of our business.
    Given the behaviour of so many within the GLBTIQ community with regard to having indiscriminate sex, shagging as many partners as possible & sometimes on the same day as we can find!
    By what possible Right do any of us think we have the Right to criticise Barnaby Joyce simply because he shags someone outside his marriage?
    Or is our GLBTIQ Community, or a few within it who think they are so bloody Pure, going to set itself up as Australia’s “New Puritans” who are now in charge of the nations morals?
    If we can shag when, who and where we like then so can Barnaby and all the rest of our hetero brothers and sisters!

  3. Apologies for having a second bite at this cherry but I’m really fired up about this dickhead.

    Barnaby has now stated he was not being hypocritical during the marriage equality debate.

    Let’s just remind folks that Barnaby claims to support traditional marriage.

    As per the James Paterson amendment (withdrawn because it was a complete failure, but that’s another story) traditional marriage is marriage between a man and a woman, for life, and to the exclusion of all others.

    So that’s three foundations on which traditional marriage stands, according to the No campaign like Barnaby Joyce.

    But Barnaby does clearly not believe that marriage is for life. He clearly does not believe it is to the exclusion of all others. His own sad saga confirms this beyond any doubt. He is in no position to judge anyone who doubts that marriage has to be between a man and a woman.

    He does not give one shit about how he affects gay Australians with his words. He does not give one shit about the trail of wreckage he has left for his own family. But don’t let the gays marry because that’s what ruins marriage.

    Barnaby Joyce is NOT FIT TO BE DEPUTY PM.

    With a decent campaign, we can make Barnaby Joyce stand down or get sacked from the Deputy Prime Ministership. He is not fit for the job. Let’s make this the campaign for 2018.

  4. It’s like listening to your parents; do as I say, don’t do as I do. He should be ex-communicated for being both a sinner, and a hypocrite, but the Pope would never do that, after all, he is heterosexual.

  5. After 35 years together, my now wife and I were only “permitted” to marry last Friday by the likes of barnaby joyce! I can assure you we won’t be following his grubby, hypocritical example!

  6. Yep, traditional marriage campaigner who failed to support his own electorate’s support for Yes in the statistical survey with a vote to that effect in Parliament, wants to lecture the rest of us about Catholic family values and how great they are, now to be divorced Catholic with an illegitimate kid.

    I don’t judge folks who fall in love. I don’t judge pregnancy out of wedlock. I just love judging FUCKING CHRISTIAN HYPOCRITE ARSEHOLES WHO GET CAUGHT OUT BEING FULL OF SHIT.

    What a deadest dickhead. Full of crap.

    • I just love how the “make believers” get lumped with TRUE believers. Most professing “Christians” are Christians in name only! Just as in THIS case, they don’t live the life.