Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says this 2023 budget “could be our last” if the “craziness” of Australia’s Voice to Parliament “got up”.
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“We wouldn’t actually have to do this – we’d have to actually advance all this policy to a selected body,” Mr Joyce told Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi. “They’d give their tick and flick and approval of what they believed as proper consultation on this before we can go back to trying to manage the country.”
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