Former deputy prime minister Michael McCormack has revealed he drank five bowls of kava in Vanuatu a day before downing a more potent Micronesian version of the traditional Pacific drink, forcing him to hospital.
The Nationals frontbencher has returned to Australia where he's described going "cross-eyed" and throwing up after finishing a ceremonial shell of local kava known as "sakau", which he sculled in front of Micronesia's president and assembled dignitaries.
