This Hitchens quote is so relevant right now:

“Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.”

Yep, So ironic I want to cry. For anyone not from Australia who doesn't understand this, feel free to Google his name for a timeline of world-class hypocrisy.

Still, why are we discussing his personal life and not his abysmal policy decisions?

Because he made a point of bringing that stuff into his politics, repeatedly. You can’t make up quotes as good as the real ones. “I think that every child has a right, absolute right to know her or his mother and father and also … should be given the greatest opportunity to know their biological mother and father,” Mr Joyce said. Somehow that’s in refer to gay marriage, not his own philandering.

Yes, maybe I should rephrase. Why are we discussing his personal life exclusively, and not his personal life and his abysmal policy decisions.

I'm referring to the media in Australia, not our discussion on HN.