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Barnaby’s concrete-assisted trolley ride crashes to an end

23 February 2018

3:25 PM

23 February 2018

3:25 PM

“Perhaps the biggest scandal in Australia political history? Made only by the fact it was managed like a shopping trolley full of concrete being pushed down the steep hill on the Tuggeranong Parkway.”

That was the erudite private assessment by a senior National Party member as Barnaby Joyce faced the media to agonisingly announce his resignation as the party’s federal leader and deputy prime minister.

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