{"id":467828,"date":"2026-02-09T04:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T04:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T04:49:09","slug":"israeli-president-lays-wreath-at-bondi-as-court-challenge-looms-coalition-unites-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/467828\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli president lays wreath at Bondi as court challenge looms; Coalition unites again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Victoria, Barnaby Joyce has claimed multiple state Coalition MPs have canvassed defecting to One Nation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Herald Sun, Joyce said \u201cof course\u201d they were talking to opposition MPs about following his example in fleeing to Pauline Hanson\u2019s party, but didn\u2019t guarantee they would be permitted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because you want to jump doesn\u2019t necessarily mean we want to catch you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson have teased that more Nationals could defect to One Nation.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/43e4db2425e13c61f3f1fb0371a8f6982620db18.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 jiJqza\"\/>Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson have teased that more Nationals could defect to One Nation.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Joyce made the comments before speaking at the Across Victoria event in Horsham, which will include discussions about renewable energy and transmission lines, alongside other issues in regional communities.<\/p>\n<p>Newspoll results published on Sunday night showed that nationally, the Coalition\u2019s vote has dropped to 18 per cent, while One Nation is polling a primary of 27 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>But Victorian Nationals MP Danny O\u2019Brien, who spoke at the same event, said there were zero chances of defections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe for a second that any Victorian Coalition MPs will be joining One Nation,\u201d he told the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n<p>Victorian Energy Minister Lily D\u2019Ambrosio seized on Joyce\u2019s comments, accusing the Liberals of having a \u201ctoxic workplace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe needs to come clean immediately and reveal which Liberals are in discussion with Barnaby Joyce,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Victoria, Barnaby Joyce has claimed multiple state Coalition MPs have canvassed defecting to One Nation. Speaking to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-467828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}