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This paper addresses journalistic coverage of Australian politician Barnaby Joyce's extramarital relationship with his one time employee, Vikki Campion. The paper suggests that it is productive to examine this coverage as constituting a media sex scandal. Media sex scandals are useful in terms of what they suggest about the gender politics of the society in which they unfold. The Joyce-Campion scandal is revealing because it suggests how the single woman who is involved in a relationship a married man continues to be demonized in a way that the man is not. This, in turn, demonstrates how marriage or rather, a particular, (hetero)sexist model of marriage continues to have a degree of social currency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes up Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi notion of "fleshy citizenship" to examine media texts of two instances in which Australian politicians breastfed in parliament. We identify the predominance of trivialising and sexualising discourses in the media texts about the breastfeeding women which worked to constrain maternal subjectivities and knowledges in legislative space. Following this, we illustrate how the presence of breastfeeding bodies debunks the myth of the citizen as a disembodied individual. In conclusion, we argue that by placing bodies at the centre of citizenship theorising, the social, material, historical and embodied specificities of knowledge production, and the consequences of exclusion for policy making, are highlighted. In summary, our application of Beasley and Bacchi conceptualisation of "fleshy citizenship" reveals that the presence or absence of different bodies matters for legislative agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]