Government rocked by High Court judgment as Barnaby Joyce gears up for byelection

By Adam Gartrell, James Massola
Updated April 24 2018 - 9:55pm, first published October 28 2017 - 12:36am

The Turnbull government is in crisis and its majority is on a knife-edge after the High Court disqualified deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce from Parliament, sparking what is set to be a bruising byelection.

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