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| Barnaby Joyce: I'm not close to Malcolm Turnbull but now we get along fine | Barnaby Joyce: I'm not close to Malcolm Turnbull but now we get along fine |
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| In GQ interview deputy prime minister says ‘raw’ arguments with PM over carbon tax when Coalition parties were in opposition left their mark | |
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| Mon 17 Jul 2017 00.58 BST | |
| Last modified on Mon 17 Jul 2017 01.05 BST | |
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| A lonely Barnaby Joyce wasn’t expecting to get along with Malcolm Turnbull after their raw and furious arguments. | A lonely Barnaby Joyce wasn’t expecting to get along with Malcolm Turnbull after their raw and furious arguments. |
| There was “shouting, screaming, the whole lot” and colleagues had to bundle him out of the room like he used to do to folks at an Armidale pub when he was a bouncer. | There was “shouting, screaming, the whole lot” and colleagues had to bundle him out of the room like he used to do to folks at an Armidale pub when he was a bouncer. |
| But now the nation’s most senior government figures work well together, despite not being close. | But now the nation’s most senior government figures work well together, despite not being close. |
| The deputy prime minister has shared a rare insight into his relationship with his boss and some surprising political bedfellows in an interview with GQ. | The deputy prime minister has shared a rare insight into his relationship with his boss and some surprising political bedfellows in an interview with GQ. |
| Joyce hadn’t expected he and Turnbull to put their huge argument over the Gillard government’s carbon tax behind them. | Joyce hadn’t expected he and Turnbull to put their huge argument over the Gillard government’s carbon tax behind them. |
| “After that it was raw but now we respect each other,” the Nationals leader said. | “After that it was raw but now we respect each other,” the Nationals leader said. |
| They trust each other’s confidence and they’re friendly. “But we’re not close.” | They trust each other’s confidence and they’re friendly. “But we’re not close.” |
| Joyce, who reveals he had a childhood ambition to be prime minister, is happy where he is and with the job he’s doing. He ranks himself an 8.5. | Joyce, who reveals he had a childhood ambition to be prime minister, is happy where he is and with the job he’s doing. He ranks himself an 8.5. |
| “Maybe that makes me sound full of myself, but I know how bloody hard I’ve worked. A pollie who scores themselves six or less is pretty useless.” | “Maybe that makes me sound full of myself, but I know how bloody hard I’ve worked. A pollie who scores themselves six or less is pretty useless.” |
| Joyce says he’s warm, driven and a little lonely. | Joyce says he’s warm, driven and a little lonely. |
| “As you go up the tree in politics, your circle of friends becomes less and less.” | “As you go up the tree in politics, your circle of friends becomes less and less.” |
| Joyce lists crossbench senator Nick Xenophon as a friend: “If I talk politics to Nick, I’m absolutely certain it stays in the vault.” | Joyce lists crossbench senator Nick Xenophon as a friend: “If I talk politics to Nick, I’m absolutely certain it stays in the vault.” |
| Ditto Labor’s Doug Cameron. “[He’s] a crazy, left, lunatic unionist but if you told him where you hid your keys, he wouldn’t tell anybody,” he said. | Ditto Labor’s Doug Cameron. “[He’s] a crazy, left, lunatic unionist but if you told him where you hid your keys, he wouldn’t tell anybody,” he said. |
| As for Tanya Plibersek, Joyce believes the deputy Labor leader is “off with the fairies”, but the opposition frontbencher Anthony Albanese would be a threat as leader because he would talk to his people. | As for Tanya Plibersek, Joyce believes the deputy Labor leader is “off with the fairies”, but the opposition frontbencher Anthony Albanese would be a threat as leader because he would talk to his people. |
| Asked who he thinks Tony Abbott is targeting with his recent musings, Joyce thinks the former Liberal prime minister is talking to himself. “And he’s got to stop,” he said. | Asked who he thinks Tony Abbott is targeting with his recent musings, Joyce thinks the former Liberal prime minister is talking to himself. “And he’s got to stop,” he said. |
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