Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has been caught seemingly unaware of the furore over his Government's release of private information, in what the Opposition is describing as "a total disaster" of a media interview.

• The Project hosts ask Barnaby Joyce about Government's release of private information
• "No-one should be leaking for malicious purposes information," Mr Joyce says
• Mr Joyce said he wasn't told the interview would be about privacy concerns

The Australian Federal Police has been asked to investigate Social Services Minister Alan Tudge who authorised the leak of blogger Andie Fox's personal and protected Centrelink details in response to a story she wrote.

The Government is also pushing for new powers that would allow it to release a veteran's personal information, should it wish to correct public statements.

When asked on The Project about whether it was appropriate for the Government to release private information, Mr Joyce appeared confused.

"If someone has broken the law, then I suppose that in that instance then it's basically, it's going to be investigated," he said as the hosts looked puzzled.

read more:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-04/joyce-in-train-wreck-interview/832...

This quite average (below par really) cartoon above is exactly the 4800th toon published on this site by Gus Leonisky. It represents a million miles of deluded rants and of slanted opinions bathed in bitter beer batter and red ned which haven't changed the world one iota. But it makes me feel better about myself. I do not do this for this purpose anyhow. I'd rather go on a holiday and forget that we we're run by intellectual midgets who have invented stupidity on a stick. Despite these loonies, the earth still spins on its axis and I am addicted to expose hypocrisy...