Barnaby Joyce goes home
Pauline Hanson's One Nation is where Joyce has always belonged.
I am quite convinced that in the years to come, it will be revealed that Barnaby Joyce was a Labor plant all along. It will finally make sense some years hence when Troy Bramston finds the Barnaby sleeper cell buried in a trove of Rudd-era cabinet papers released by the National Archives.
No politician of the last 20 years has inflicted more damage upon the Coalition parties than Joyce – and certainly no Labor politician.
He burst onto the national stage in 2004 as a maverick senator holding the Howard government hostage. Not to make a name for himself, of course – oh, no; only to secure a better deal for Queensland. When the Nationals leadership and deputy prime ministership beckoned, it turned out Barnaby was actually a New South Welshman.