Not sure whether you watched Annabel Crabb's Civic Duty. It was a bit like marriage and babies - if you got past the toddler years, you'd be ecstatic.

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Episode three was an absolute corker. It had the benefit of Crabb's humour and what journalists call currency. What's happening right now.

On screen? Yes. Barnaby Joyce. How does Crabb describe him?

"He's an Australian standard bearer for party disunity." I would have gone for the definite article there but she's a much better writer than me so I'll bow to her choices.

He tells us how people were mean to him in the party room when he crossed the floor. Apparently every seat in the joint party room was already taken. "I literally had to go next door, grab a seat and bring it in. I sat by myself for dinner and tea for years, there's a real tribalism that doesn't exist elsewhere."

He goes on to say that in "people's hearts they feel a sense of, 'I'm letting myself down, I'm not true to my personal values because I haven't been given the liberty on certain issues to move."

Obviously, this is not a person who understands the power of collective action, of sticking together to bring about change.

Today Barnyard's announcing his resignation from the Nationals, maybe to join One Nation. They can have him if he has the guts to tell us what he's really thinking. One Nation. Which has never, not once, not ever, done a single damn thing to contribute to our nation.

Just this week, that buffoon who leads the party, Pauline Hanson, now 71, decided to wear a burqa into the Senate. She and her insufferable con-patriots (yes, because they are con artists not patriots) want to ban the clothing worn by observant Muslim women. It's their way of saying, look at moi, look at moi (sorry Kath and Kim, I know you would never behave like this), I hate anyone who's different.

Good news is that she's been........

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