(FILES) This file photo taken on July Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce (L) looking at Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (R) during a press conference in Sydney. AFP / William West
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Thursday said ministers will be banned from relationships with staff under a new code of conduct to be enacted in the wake of his deputy admitting to an extramarital affair with a staffer.
"Ministers, regardless of whether they are married or single, must not engage in physical relations with staff," Turnbull told reporters in Canberra.
"In 2018, it is not acceptable for a minister to have a sexual relationship with somebody who works for them. It is a very bad workplace practice. And everybody knows that no good comes of it."
