{"id":324260,"date":"2025-11-29T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=324260"},"modified":"2025-11-29T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:50:37","slug":"barnaby-joyce-resigns-from-nationals-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=324260","title":{"rendered":"Barnaby Joyce Resigns from Nationals After 30 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joyce announced his resignation on Thursday, the last day before parliament&#8217;s break, and will now serve as an independent for New England before retiring at the next election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He criticised his House seat as an ejection seat and expressed a desire for more influence in the Senate to better scrutinise bills. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions over issues like net zero targets contributed to the move, and he&#8217;s strongly considering a Senate run with Pauline Hanson&#8217;s One Nation. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"693\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6vSIUva0AMfXq-.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6vSIUva0AMfXq-.jpeg 693w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/G6vSIUva0AMfXq--300x249.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barnaby Joyce in one of his more colourful moments, laying on the pavement in Canberra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The departure trims Coalition numbers in the House and stirs rural conservative circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tensions over issues like net zero targets contributed to the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":325064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,35],"tags":[14019,16794,9562],"class_list":["post-324260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-barnaby-joyce","tag-national-party","tag-one-nation-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325067,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324260\/revisions\/325067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/325064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}