In a heated interview on ABC’s 7.30 this week, One Nation’s would-be treasurer Barnaby Joyce was unable to explain how much superannuation Australians would lose from their retirement under the party’s policy to allow early access.

Barnaby Joyce might be dumb, but he’s no idiot.

Joyce’s obfuscation on 7.30 and ABC’s AM will work well with his audience.

Most people hate journalists, and especially hate interviewers, so they are not going to mind him suggesting the questions were really just gotchas.

Unfortunately, it has been a very, very long while since any interview that caught out a politician actually had any worthwhile impact.

Joyce might not understand the velocity of money, but neither does anyone else. And to be honest, the entire concept of it on inflation is pretty disputed, so trying to argue against him on that score is a mug’s game.

The same goes for the One Nation and Coalition policy of letting people raid their super.

Anyone saying it will be inflationary is right. Anyone saying it will sentence mostly low-middle income........

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