‘Another strange thing from Barnaby Joyce’: Labor minister slams former deputy PM

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has faced backlash from Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman after Mr Joyce called for a ban on Chinese-made EVs. “We try and make sense of Barnaby Joyce while talking about serious legislation and trying to do those two things at once is always difficult,” Mr Gorman told Sky News Australia. “About a month ago he was sort of saying ballot papers are bullets, which was a pretty weird thing to be saying, now he’s saying batteries are bullets. “It’s another strange thing from Barnaby Joyce to be saying.”