McCormack to Remain Australia’s Deputy PM After Ballot

(Bloomberg) -- Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack has survived a challenge to his leadership of the government’s junior coalition partner the National Party.McCormack, who has been in the role for two years, defeated challenger Barnaby Joyce by winning support of lawmakers from the rural and regional-based Nationals in a ballot.McCormack, 55, is a former journalist and businessman who led the Nationals during their election campaign last year when they held all their