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At one point on Thursday Barilaro offered to resign, telling his party room that a new leader could be the "reset" the Nationals needed. His troops talked him down.
The former deputy Prime Minister says governments do not need friendships to function and Barilaro should be able to maintain a working relationship with Berejiklian. "If he had any sense of decency he would quit but from what we've seen, he doesn't have any. So now we have a lame duck leader and party room that knows that.""I think what we have seen out of John Barilaro is the greatest act of political bastardry in quite some time," Elliott says.
A few months later he made the same threat, warning he would revisit the Nationals' relationship with the Liberals if the government did not intervene on planned regional job cuts at Essential Energy. His brief foray into federal politics further cemented Barilaro's back-pedalling reputation after saying he would contest the seat of Eden-Monaro only to pull out.
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