Josh, every man and his dog is talking about Barnaby Joyce and his \u2026 dog this morning. What\u2019s going on?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, Australia\u2019s former deputy prime minister and One Nation recruit bellowed at his dog in the middle of a live TV interview last night.<\/p>\n
One Nation is often accused of dog whistling \u2013 this was dog yelling.<\/p>\n
So \u2026 where does the dog come in?<\/p>\n
Ferguson then asked: \u201cIt seems to me, Barnaby Joyce, that your decision to defect to One Nation is dragging you further into a place of intolerance and racial discrimination. You\u2019re defending your leader but are you really comfortable with where she is taking you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Joyce\u2019s eyes could be seen darting off-screen during that question, and he began answering:<\/p>\n
\u201cI think \u2013 SIT DOWN!\u201d he yelled, all of a sudden. It was a startling moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cSorry. It\u2019s the dog,\u201d he then chuckled, before continuing his answer without addressing the substance of Ferguson\u2019s question, instead noting One Nation\u2019s growing polling support.<\/p>\n
Joyce later apologised for the dog, which he said was interrupting him. Ferguson responded: \u201cDon\u2019t worry about the dog. Just answer the question.\u201d<\/p>\n
Joyce snipped back: \u201cDon\u2019t be rude. Otherwise, this interview will come to a grinding halt.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounds like a pretty heated interaction. All jokes aside, what\u2019s going on underneath this viral moment?<\/p>\n
The viral dog moment could almost overshadow the serious issues at play here.<\/p>\n
This comes at a fraught time for One Nation. Hanson\u2019s gaffe-filled trip to Europe<\/a> \u2013 aside from agreeing to meet Robinson \u2013 included her attendance at a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show and downtime by a hotel pool in Italy with the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart. Hanson put out two separate videos at the weekend defending her actions and Joyce and Lee Hanson have given media interviews to clarify that the party leader didn\u2019t support the White Australia policy after controversial comments to Robinson.<\/p>\n During the Spotlight special, in one particularly vitriolic comment, Hanson also claimed: \u201cThey [Muslims] breed and they are having children. In the Qur\u2019an it says Allah will provide, well the Allah providing is the taxpayer.\u201d<\/p>\n It also comes amid increasing scrutiny and spotlight on One Nation policies and its members, as the party sits on equal polling footing with Labor \u2013 about 30% primary in the latest Newspoll. Hanson and Joyce have had to defend their controversial colleague Malcolm Roberts and his advocacy of conspiracy theories surrounding chemtrails and Covid<\/a>, and comments supporting Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n There has been reporting that Joyce\u2019s relationship with Hanson is under strain, amid the mounting controversies in One Nation.<\/p>\n Now for the most important question: do we know what breed of dog he has?<\/p>\n Joyce tells me he has a \u201cstaffy-border collie\u201d cross. He adds that the dog had been under the deck where he was standing, \u201cbarking incessantly\u201d.<\/p>\n And what have been the reactions?<\/p>\n The moment was, naturally, clipped up and went viral online within moments. The Australian meme page Brown Cardigan posted the video with the caption \u201c#baddog\u201d; the satirical news site Betoota Advocate commented on the post: \u201cThat SIDDOWN lands so crisp after a bottle of Grange on a jet black winter night.\u201d<\/p>\n Hanson herself posted the clip on Facebook, writing: \u201cYou have to love live TV from home.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cPoor Barnaby had to put up with his dog distracting him during an already hostile ABC interview.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked about the moment at an event in Perth on Tuesday, Hanson responded: \u201cThat\u2019s Barnaby \u2026 this is why I love the people around me, we\u2019re just human.\u201d<\/p>\n Hang on, I\u2019m getting a vague memory\u2026 this isn\u2019t Joyce\u2019s first viral moment with a dog, is it?<\/p>\n Who remembers Pistol and Boo? In another life, as agriculture minister in 2015, Joyce made the Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Amber Heard film something of a hostage video apologising for trying to bring their dogs into the country against Australia\u2019s strict biosecurity laws. That was after he threatened to put the two pooches down<\/a> in a saga that also went viral worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n You\u2019d think Joyce\u2019s pet would have learned to behave, knowing their owner\u2019s record with punishing bad dogs \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh, every man and his dog is talking about Barnaby Joyce and his \u2026 dog this morning. What\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-813736","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\/813736","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=813736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}