Barnaby Joyce accuses Greta Thunberg and other COP31 crowd of being ‘grifters’ on the Aussie taxpayer’s dime
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Barnaby Joyce has declared he would rather take his ‘eyes out with a fork’ than ‘spend time in a room’ with Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and world leaders at the COP31 summit in Turkey.
The Nightly didn’t include a summary, so this is The West Australian’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Barnaby Joyce
Barnaby Thomas Gerard Joyce is an Australian politician who served as the deputy prime minister of Australia and the leader of the National Party from 2016 to 2018 and from 2021 to 2022. Now a member of One Nation, he has been the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of New England since 2013. Joyce previously held various ministerial positions in the Abbott, Turnbull, and Morrison governments.4
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