Barnaby Joyce has blasted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for treating Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade as 'more important' than the crime crisis in Alice Springs.
Mr Albanese will be the first sitting Australian PM to march in the World Pride festival, alongside Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
The Nationals MP said locals were “annoyed” with the Mr Albanese for spending more time at the tennis or at the LGBTQIA+ party than in the embattled outback town. “I just think that [visit] deserves a little bit more time than four hours,” he told ABC’s RN Breakfast on Monday. The criticism was aimed at Mr Albanese's attendance of three nights at the Australian Open in January, in contrast to four hours on the ground in Alice Springs.
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