Joyce can only lead Australia back to the 20th Century - somewhere we don't want to go

New leader of The Nationals and
deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby
Joyce - back to the 20th Century.

Barnaby Joyce’s accent to the leadership of the National Party, along with becoming the deputy Prime Minister of Australia, takes the country back into the 20^th Century.

Former PM, Tony Abbott, declared climate change “crap” and Joyce, who played a key role in unpacking and killing Australia’s world-leading carbon tax, was standing right behind Abbott, singing along in the chorus.

Nothing Joyce has said or done since Abbott’s rise to power in 2013 suggests he may have changed his position, or values. Nor has anything changed since Malcolm Turnbull took over the top job.

Joyce brings little, rather nothing to the conversation that would excite climate campaigners and any noise from those who protest his new role, is drowned out the whooping and hollering of his supporters who are emotionally embedded in fossil fuel powered ideas of the last century; ideas from which modern Australia has been assembled, but which are now irrelevant.

Sadly, with the promotion of Joyce, Australia has slipped back into the Abbott slogan-ridden times, which saw the country marching with enthusiasm away from ideas and possible solutions that may have helped with the mitigation of or adaptation to the world’s disrupted climate system.