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‘The move is on’ says Joyce
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce says the South Australian election results show a “corroboration of where the polling is”.
I think the move is on. I think it’s been a move that’s happened globally and it’s arrived in Australia. And it’s premised on the fact that people have been tolerant or accepting of basically sort of a word salad of ideas that never really eventuate into cold hard policies. And when they do, they don’t work on behalf of the Australian people.
The coalition’s fading. Liberal Party’s fading. You’re seeing that. But you’re seeing a peel-off of blue-collar votes. I can assure you [of] that.
It’s not the election result we were hoping for, obviously, but I think it is much better than we were expecting … It’s very grim but we’re sort of looking at it. It could have been worse. So we’ve got to rebuild.
Discipline and unity. That’s the message that I’m taking. And that we’ve got to make sure that we are putting up policies that are in the interests of Australians at a federal level and that we’ve got to stop talking about ourselves. That is death politically.
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