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Michael McCormack – the former Nationals leader who would possibly like to reshuffle into that job again – has also been on ABC television talking about those text messages. Leader Barnaby Joyce “has some explaining to do”, he said. He also said Joyce could resign if he wanted to and that he would “seriously consider” putting his hand up again for the top job: I’ll weigh that up at the time.
If enough members of the party came to me and asked me to lead the party, I would seriously consider that. I’ve taken them to an election. I’ve retained every seat. McCormack called the text messages Joyce sent describing Scott Morrison a “liar” and a “hypocrite” as “damaging and unfortunate”: It’s very, very unfortunate, the fact that we’re talking about ourselves when we should be talking about Australians. We should be focused on the recovery from Covid.
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