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Barnaby Joyce: the story of an unlikely rise and a self-inflicted fall

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Barnaby Joyce's departure to the backbench obviously brings immediate relief for the government and the Nationals.AAP/Marlon Dalton

In the end, the tough man crumpled. For a fortnight Barnaby Joyce had resembled someone out in the snow who’d broken through the pain threshold, as he defied massive pressure and political common sense to try to...

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