Satire

SATIRE | Barnaby Joyce causes pandemonium at Nationals gathering

By Mark Bode
February 19 2020 - 7:00pm
YOU DECIDE: A baby throwing a tantrum or a daring and unique political operative? Picture: Gareth Gardner
YOU DECIDE: A baby throwing a tantrum or a daring and unique political operative? Picture: Gareth Gardner

It was at a Nationals soirée in Canberra last night that Barnaby Joyce managed to shock even me, someone who has known him more than 30 years and has seen behind the curtain. Not the curtain the public saw behind when his propriety was lanced like a boil or Alan Jones' head, but the other curtain - the one shrouding his darkest secrets, desires and impulses.