Did You Find That a Bit Extraordinary?

The former deputy prime minister made the calculation, a compleely political calculation, that he was going to put the interest of the nationals and their additional ministerial am positions at risk. I think it got sort of tied up in all the am hullabloo overn zero negotiations and the goings on between the liberals and the nationals at the time. People knew that this was a captain's call from scott morrison. No one had any idea at that stage that he'd obviously not just pulled rank, but he now pulled the portfolio for keith pitt. But again, before you recall the context, barnaby joyce was o busy negotiating billions of dollars for boone dogg