And then, his most significant and revealing “accident” of all, the moral issue aside, his total mismanagement of his marriage breakdown, and the subsequent questioning of him as to whether he had breached the Ministerial Code of Conduct, and Parliamentary disclosure requirements. This revealed an appalling series of poor judgments.

Barnaby just doesn’t get it. He has thought it was always reasonable that he operated under a different set of rules. Didn’t we know whom we were talking about? He IS Deputy PM. What’s private is private. And similarly other selfish, self absorbed, arrogant, thoughts and sentiments.

Is it any wonder, after all this and not forgetting the legacy of the Nationals' role in costing Turnbull the leadership to Abbott over climate policy the first time around, that Turnbull basically said, in the end, “Enough is Enough” – too much damage has been done to the government - Barnaby should “consider his position”!

Barnaby simply cannot remain as Deputy PM, irrespective of the Coalition agreement. He doesn’t deserve it on either merit or performance. If this requires the renegotiation of that Coalition agreement, so be it.

Given the mounting and widespread voter dissatisfaction, and loss of trust and belief in our politicians and political system, people desperately want the “end game” to be good government. They want clear and decisive leadership, to begin with a “clean up”, and then a focus on, and the delivery of, genuine relief from the pressures of the cost of living and job insecurity, with which they struggle day in, day out.