.hellojamesweir recaps Barnaby Joyce’s appearance at the Sky News Pub Test. AusVotes19 auspol
The New England MP is worn out by life and love. Two years of his personal life being under the glare of the media has left him hollowed. One year of sleepless nights and changing nappies has made him weary, and that weariness will be two-fold when his partner and former staffer Vikki Campion gives birth to their second bub in the coming weeks and they steal Meghan and Harry’s thunder.
Anyway, Barnaby arrived at the leagues club alone and just kept to himself. Before he hit the panel, he was put in the makeup chair and the girl kept flicking her makeup brush over his face for a really long time, attempting to subdue his prominent shade of pink, until she realised there’s literally nothing that can be done about that situation. So he popped a spring roll in his mouth, hiked his jeans up by the waistband and shuffled up to the panel.
One question confused everyone — even host Paul Murray. It was something about charging farmers for rainwater. It’s not a thing but apparently it could be a thing. No one understood.“Can someone else answer it? I don’t get … the… question?” the guy from the Greens replied as all the other candidates looked around.
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