Barnaby Joyce announces resignation from Nationals Party after 30 years

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The former deputy prime minister and current Member for New England told the Parliament on November 27, 2025, that it is with a ‘heavy heart’ that he leaves the National Party after three decades.

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00:00Thank you very much, Madam Deputy Speaker.

00:03Look, there is no doubt about it, Madam Deputy Speaker, if you are here, this is the ejection

00:08seat.

00:09It is about a far away you can get from the dispatch box, and if you are sitting here,

00:12they want you out there.

00:15In the past, I have been asked to leave twice by Peter Dutton, and I suppose at the last

00:20change, when they talk about generational change, it is pretty clear what people want.

00:26One of the biggest things, Madam Deputy Speaker, is that after five weeks—I announced this

00:31about five weeks ago—apart from a 90-second phone conversation with the Leader, I have

00:36had no communication with either the Leader of the National Party or the Deputy Leader of

00:39the National Party to try and resolve this, and that is disappointing.

00:43So after 30 years with the National Party, I am resigning from the Party.

00:48That really leaves me with a heavy heart, and I apologise for all the hurt that that will

00:52cause other people.

00:53I really do.

00:54But it is not the most important thing.

00:56What is really important is that we understand those dealing with the cost-of-living crisis,

01:00that we go into bat for them.

01:02What is really important is that they are still building intermittent power precincts and swindle

01:06factories in regional areas and destroying communities such as my own.

01:10What is really important is that the Chinese Communist government are breathing down our necks

01:13and each day become more provocative.

01:16What is really important is that we have regional hospitals with our doctors in them.

01:22What I have to do, if I am going to continue on that fight, is get myself into a better position

01:27than the Ejection Chair at the back bench of the Coalition in Opposition.

01:32A lot of people who are talking about their health and the people who are still living in the country are in the country,

01:38which is also the current lockdown, so that we are still in the world.

01:41And so we have regional hospitals with ourvenous institutions,

01:42and the people are in the country, do not still work and they are in the country.

01:45In the country of potential businesses, our families are still in the country,

01:47what we have to do, if you are in the country.

01:48What is really important is that the people who are in the country.

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