By Amy Remeikis
Former deputy PM said to be ‘skint’. Meanwhile, Cory Bernardi says he won’t back Senate inquiry into the Angus Taylor grasslands saga. All the day’s events, live
1.51am BST
Barnaby Joyce on Sunrise this morning:
I wouldn’t have picked the headline ‘I’m skint’ I would have said, you know, I have a greater empathy for what people are going through on Newstart. Someone has got to speak up for them and so often Nat, if you say you know we have to do a better deal for these people and people say how would you know, you’re a politician. A lot of people, I suppose, hate to really talk about it but I have to because of the front page, in a marriage breakdown you go from supporting one family to supporting two in many instances.
1.49am BST
Because 2019 is the new 2004, Pauline Hanson wants to make the next election about immigration numbers.
Let’s look at the numbers, shall we?
“I ask the question: Do you think the current rate of immigration to Australia is too high?” – @PaulineHansonOz #auspol @SBSNews pic.twitter.com/8GMG5fflyb
IMMIGRATION VOTE@OneNationAus leader Pauline Hanson will today ask the Senate to support a vote on immigration numbers.
PLEBISCITE (FUTURE MIGRATION LEVEL) BILLhttps://t.co/72EwrrAtyS #Auspol pic.twitter.com/1PJNqwktU7
Source: Barnaby Joyce ‘struggling’ to support family on $200,000 backbencher’s salary – politics live
