Sussan Ley wants to keep the Coalition together – but caving on net zero won’t help her win back seats | Tom McIlroy https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2025/may/31/sussan-ley-wants-to-keep-the-coalition-together-but-caving-on-net-zero-wont-help-her-win-back-seats #Climatesciencescepticismanddenial #Greenhousegasemissions #Australianpolitics #DavidLittleproud #Nationalparty #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Liberalparty #BarnabyJoyce #Environment #Coalition #SussanLey #Energy

In good news #auspol #BarnabyJoyce & #MichaelMcCormack have been #dropped from the new #Coalition #shadowcabinet Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

@abcfeeds he’s baaaaack #BarnabyJoyce

Blueberries from NSW’s Mid North Coast—a $440 million industry—may contain dimethoate, a neurotoxin banned in Europe but still used in Australia. This pesticide, sprayed just a day before harvest, can cause headaches, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, muscle twitching, and even death at very high doses.
Should Australia still allow this on our food? #FoodSafety #Pesticides #Blueberries #barnabyjoyce

https://michaelwest.com.au/pesticides-menace-mars-barnaby-joyce-blueberries/

Calla Wahlquist, writing in the *Guardian*, wonders about Barnaby Joyce's current choice of footwear. **Apparently BJ has dropped his previously beloved RMs as a protest against renewable energy.** And he has started wearing American boots instead.
Wahlquist makes a pretty big deal out of this, but leaves the clincher to the end - in the usual performative politics in which BJ indulges (i.e., a clown upon the federal stage) this is simply a dog-whistle for his friends on the right, always lurching more and more towards states-side wing-nut rhetoric... They have to... as they haven't got a single independent Australian idea or policy in their dinky little heads.

(Actually, perhaps a pair of clown shoes would suit him better, instead? Perhaps we could all chip in on Kickstarter and get him a pair?)

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/31/barnaby-joyce-ditched-his-rm-williams-to-protest-green-energy-wait-until-he-finds-out-about-his-new-boots

My boots: RMs for the home office - bought when they were affordable, and my longest lasting pair (recently repaired and as good as new) now 15 years old. Redbacks (brilliant and so comfortable) for camping, and for working in the yard.

Last year I learned a new word, ‘tobarnaby’.

It's definition is "going into denial when you have made a shocking error of judgement."

As depicted in the attached picture #BarnabyJoyce effortlessly embodies this term on the regular.

As does #SkyNews & both double down when scrutinised.

#Trump, #barnabyjoyce . Why can't we select our political leaders from the best of us? We need leaders who inspire us to be better by the beauty of their words and actions. Leaders we can be proud of. Instead, we habitually elect narcissists and power-hungry bogans.
#auspol #uspol

Really good (Barnaby Joyce related) sketch from A Rational Fear. The guy doing the impressions is a guy named Jonas Holt. If you've never heard of his it's because we definitely don't live in a meritocracy.
#BarnabyJoyce #Nemesis

https://youtu.be/Fs-xr6omees

I usually read John Birmingham for his laugh-out-loud virtuosic displays of hilarious vulgarity. But here he is writing seriously about #BarnabyJoyce and this piece is an excellent reflection on the sad state of the man and the culture surrounding the fact that no one in parliament is admitting that we have an alcoholic representing the electorate.

(Quite apart from the double standards at play - referred to by Birmingham in his piece - I boggle at the unkindness of it all. I don't like Barnaby the man or his politics but he is obviously a very unwell person. Why do his colleagues allow him to cause such obvious damage to himself? Turning a blind eye in this case is not kind. Time for some tough love but it seems that the National Party won't do that.)

https://open.substack.com/pub/aliensideboob/p/a-few-quiet-words-about-barnaby?r=g1ykm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true

David Speers on Barnaby Joyce and alcohol.

In a question to the Prime Minister, Warringah MP #ZaliStegall raised the possibility of making #alcohol and #drug testing mandatory for federal MPs and Senators on Thursday. #barnabyjoyce #Barnaby #auspol

MBJ _ #MattBissettJohnson :)
@MBJCartoonist #Cartoon for the Melbourne Observer #Auspol2024 #BarnabyJoyce #alttext

After recently being filmed lying on a footpath and ranting into his phone, we felt it was a perfect time to recap some of the highlights from the illustrious political career of Nationals MP, #BarnabyJoyce.#auspol #Barnaby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7sdi2cEMCo

#Nemesis #tvseries #ABC
#ScottMorrison #BarnabyJoyce

Barnaby Joyce says late-night lie down 'a big mistake', blames mixing medication with alcohol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-12/joyce-defends-late-night-lie-down/103454390

Barnaby Joyce's story is beyond belief. He's a knob, a liar, and frequently drunk on the job. I understand that getting legless (figuratively, and it seems literally for some of us) is a popular Australian part-time. But, to spin a yarn about interaction with medication is a bit of a stretch.
Ask yourself why Barnaby Joyce — not an inexperienced drinker — was drinking heavily if he was on medication he knew had side-effects with alcohol. And ask yourself why he was in the carpark when he was filmed falling-down drunk. I think it's more plausible that Barnaby Joyce intended to drive home while under the influence.

Yep, you’d think someone would

My (everyone else is doing one) cartoon