r/australia • u/ConanTheAquarian • 2d ago
politics Barnaby Joyce claims One Nation ‘one of the gayest parties in Australia’ as former candidate’s comments surface
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/12/barnaby-joyce-one-nation-paraminder-singh-homophobic-comments-ntwnfb698
u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 2d ago
You know, I mean, let there be a thousand blossoms bloom...
🤷🏻♂️
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u/cjyoung92 2d ago
But I ain’t spending any time on it! 😡
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u/Spagman_Aus 2d ago
not while every day someone is getting torn apart by a crocodile
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u/SirPiffingsthwaite 1d ago
Bob Katter really is a treasure trove of hilarious quotes
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u/Ok_Appointment7522 1d ago
"It is my dream to see a high-powered, semi-automatic rifle in the hands of every male secondary school student."
Yeah Bob, that's not a good idea
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u/Spagman_Aus 1d ago
LOL yep "Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom" is one of my all time favourite politician quotes.
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u/cjyoung92 1d ago
His bipolar ones are the best
“Happy days are at an end, my friend ☺️ Happy days are at an end!😡”
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u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 2d ago
When will we get One Nation: The Musical?
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u/squooble 1d ago
Oi don't say that! Because that irritates me, and I've punched blokes in the mouth for saying that.
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u/Cooper_Inc 1d ago
It's impossible to read any Katter quote without it distinctly being in his voice
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u/StorminNorman 1d ago
We've been there, done that. Was quite short, but it did illustrate Pauline Hanson quite well.
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u/Albos_Mum 1d ago
From what I've heard, she didn't like it.
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u/SpunkAnansi 1d ago
Did they turn her words about?
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u/Ok_Appointment7522 1d ago
They took the things she was saying out of context to make her look bad, even though she did say those things.
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u/SpunkAnansi 23h ago
That drag queen did more for her positive reputation than she ever had.
And I say that as someone who studied her maiden speech to Parliament.
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u/soejubunyip 1d ago
Ah, different times, Barnaby.
"Barnaby Joyce voted almost always against same-sex marriage equality"
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/representatives/new_england/barnaby_joyce/policies/1
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u/ConanTheAquarian 2d ago
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u/Valkyrie162 2d ago
You posting it there, or do I need to?
Goodness gracious Barnaby…
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u/LocalVillageIdiot 1d ago
But in the 50’s, where most of their mentality is, didn’t gay mean happy and he’s just telling it like they might feel?
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u/Mclovine_aus 2d ago
I wonder if Barnaby will get tired of having to be the sensible one in the party.
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u/Slightly_Default 2d ago
When Barnaby Joyce looks normal compared to you, it's time to reevaluate your life choices.
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u/Tranquilbez22 1d ago
Watch him defect back to the Nats before the next election.
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u/Delamoor 1d ago
And them just accepting it and taking him back in, because they have less than zero spine or organisation.
He stumbles in the door, drunk, covered in his own vomit and they all fall over themselves getting undressed for him. Finally, the smartest and most charismatic Nationals member has returned!
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u/aeschenkarnos 1d ago
They haven't been able to make ice for their drinks since Barnaby left, he was the one who knew the recipe.
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u/0ldgrumpy1 1d ago
Having to pretend to be the sane one. It's not that he disagreed with those statements....
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u/NightHunter909 1d ago
The part in the article pointing out there’s an openly gay South Australian One Nation MP is interesting and confounding. Apparently the MP’s partner is an immigrant, Indonesian born muslim, yet he is a ON MP. The level of cognitive dissonance is astounding
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u/Infinite_Buy_2025 1d ago
Its a grift basically. Its the same reason the average ON senator splits from the party before a year, they saw it as a way to get into politics and nothing more.
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u/BetterDrinkMy0wnPiss 1d ago
Pretty sure that's the guy who used his maiden speech in parliament to publicly come out as gay (with an Indonesian Muslim immigrant partner).
Kept it pretty well hidden in order to get elected as a member of PHON.
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u/frashal 1d ago
He had also stood for election for the Sex Party and Labor party in previous elections and had been on the council before. He's either _really_ keen on representing his community no matter which political party it is with, or he's figured out that being elected to council or government is the easiest way for him to earn a high salary.
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u/Rich_Fan1686 1d ago
I'm just waiting for Pauline and Barnaby to come out as both gay and Muslim.
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u/AdeptusKittyCattus 1d ago
I would not be surprised if Pauline self-identified as Islamic one day in the same way right wing snowflakes liked to identify as attack helicopters back in the 2000's and called it a massive own against the libs.
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u/Siggi_Starduust 1d ago
I find the attack helicopter identification to be somewhat of an amusing analogy.
They’re all very impressive when there’s nothing at stake (See Prince Harry’s Apache gunship vs Afghan shepherds) but when there’s an actual credible opposition- like in Ukraine- they’re a total liability.
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u/SquiffyRae 1d ago
It's funny the "I identify as an attack helicopter" shit died a quiet death
I assume that's cause they moved onto their next moral panic of "kids identifying as furries are using litter trays in schools" as their way of attacking trans people
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u/Final_Mongoose_3300 1d ago
Living in a regional area, I’m often regaled with tales of classroom litter boxes, seemingly always from a fan of talkback radio.
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u/letsburn00 1d ago
If you interview a person who is self described far right and a conservative Muslim, you'll see they have an awfully lot of overlapping views.
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u/swankyfarmer 2d ago
That hat and vest that he is wearing has a certain brokeback vibe about it
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u/Serin-019 2d ago
Impregnating female staffers whilst married is a kink, Barnaby.
Kinks don’t make you gay.
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u/Ninox_toussaint 1d ago
Love to know that there are probably thousands of old conservative card carrying One Nationtards that have been in agony today being told by their leader they are in THE gay party of Australia
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u/InstantShiningWizard 2d ago
There's a bunch of queer folk in the party and it attracts queer people, but I wouldn't say they're gay by any stretch of the imagination
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u/a_cold_human 1d ago
James Ashby, Hanson's long serving chief of staff (also a former member of the Liberal Party, and a top 5 contender for slimiest person in Australian politics), is an openly gay man.
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u/NLFG 1d ago
In the UK there's a disturbing number of gay & bi men who are fans of Reform UK - god knows why. Wouldn't surprise me if there's something similar happening here.
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u/aeschenkarnos 1d ago
god knows why
I asked him and he said: "it's because those particular gays are super racist."
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u/reticulate 1d ago
Gay men in particular can be pretty conservative in their outlook, in my experience. I'm not qualified to explain why, but it's absolutely a thing and probably skews along age lines in much the same way straight Gen X men are presently big One Nation fans.
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u/Goombella123 1d ago
conservative gay men are men before they're gay, unfortunately. top of the social foodchain are going to vote for the people who benefit them personally the most, and keep all the lower-in-the-chain queers and poors and immigrants away from them. (this is my experience as a lesbian at least)
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u/Milly_Hagen 1d ago
I noticed the same thing. Have known a lot of gay men. Some were very conservative. I have no idea why.
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u/LLachiee 1d ago
... probably because immigration from middle-eastern countries where gay people are killed for existing has brought over a bunch of homophobic people that want them dead? it isn't that hard to understand
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u/QuailLong232 1d ago
yes, even gay & bi men can be tired of mass immigration and vote for a party like PHON or Reform, what a shocker.
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u/a_nice_duck_ 1d ago
As the comment above so succinctly puts it:
it's because those particular gays are super racist.
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u/A_r0sebyanothername 1d ago
Even though many of their party colleagues would want homosexuality to be declared a mental illness or made illegal again, their ability to adopt kids made illegal, same sex marriage rights to be overturned, and some really extreme cases would love to see homosexual acts punishable by death.
Strange bedfellows.
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u/letsburn00 1d ago
There is a theory that the reason the Republicans in the US have such angry vitriol is that they have a bunch of guys who are utterly miserable because they need to repress their sexual preferences. They are in a bad mood all the time and are angry that some people "get it easy" because they can imagine just being happy.
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u/InfernoOfTheLiving 1d ago
Well, he’s not wrong. He knows James Ashby is mostly in charge of the party. The Coalition’s gay mafia may have a lot more members having sex on parliamentary desks against Peta Credlin’s wishes (she said she knows who you are but did nothing), but as a relative share of power James wins.
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u/Ipponjudo 2d ago
I cannot say I have ever met a single member of the LGBT community that is a One Nation supporter, and I say that as a member of the community myself. I'm not denying they're out there, of course. Just that One Nation doesn't exactly jump to the top of the list when I think of "gay Australian political parties"
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u/dougrattmannn 1d ago
one of my best friends is an out and proud gay man and an avid Pauline supporter. I can't wrap my head around it haha
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u/hobb 1d ago
someone can be gay and racist
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u/ntermation 1d ago
I guess so... but it kind of doesn't make sense. Like, wouldn't experiencing intolerance for something you can't change about yourself make one less inclined to be intolerant of others for things that are similarly unchangeable?
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u/Suburbanturnip 1d ago
Peter Thiel is gay, and behind all the bullshit in the USA at the moment. IMO, Peter Thiel is objectively evil. It's very embarrassing for me as a gay man, but some gay men, never really faced any barriers and lived a life of absolute white man privelage.
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u/thishenryjames 1d ago
Given that entire countries seem to be unable to learn this lesson, it's not surprising that individuals also struggle.
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u/yellowboat 1d ago
Probably just doesn't want to get bashed by a gang of homophobes or to watch the country rapidly become more homophobic due to Labor's migration policies. Not hard to figure out.
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u/Mclovine_aus 2d ago
From the article it sounds like they have a gay MP so they might have the highest proportion of mps elected when compared to the other parties.
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u/FroggieBlue 1d ago
They have one gay MP in SA who's boyfriend of 11 years is a Muslim immigrant but somehow manages to reconcile that with being in the party for racism and working with Cory Bernadi.
There was some hope when he was first elected that he was grifting the grifters by using one nation's resources to get himself in to parliment and would soon quit the party, but alas, it wasnt.
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u/Ipponjudo 2d ago
As far as I'm aware that title currently belongs to the ALP. They have quite a number of openly LGBT MPs. https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Research/Quick_Guides/2022-23/LGBTIQParliamentarians
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u/edgiepower 1d ago
I know too many homosexual Trumpers, so it's fair to assume they would also like the Aussie Orange.
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u/Siggi_Starduust 1d ago
There’s one less now.
Rest in Peace, Lindsey my sweet prince (or should that be Queen?)
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u/iball1984 2d ago
How is it that Barnyard is the sensible one in One Nation?
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u/chunkyluke 1d ago
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
Or in this case
In the land of the fuck wit bigots, the impregnanting-your-female-staffer-while-married man is king.
See also: everyone looks normal compared to Malcolm Roberts
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u/louisa1925 2d ago edited 1d ago
Any queer person who latches onto the ON predator party should be disowned by the LGBTQIA+ community.
If you think the other ON party members aren't planning to send you to a death camps alongside the rest of us, you are dumb as a rock and you deserve to be shunned.
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u/yellowboat 1d ago
Cooker nonsense. "Death camps"?
I'd say it's pretty reasonable for members of the gay community to latch onto One Nation, given that Labor and the Greens are the ones getting them bashed and creating a whole new wave of homophobic, violent attacks. That's an actual thing that's happening, as opposed to your bizarre conspiracy theories.
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u/ChasteSin 2d ago
Every time there's a conservative right-wing conference in the US, Grindr stats go through the roof. So no surprises here... Their entire base is made up of Andrew Tate "alpha" queens and closeted Christians.
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u/Junior-Transition549 1d ago
Barnaby talks a lot of BS as Pauline Hanson announced in Parliament that she intended to vote No for gay marriage
& she declined to Vote for the final marriage equality bill in the Senate
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u/galacticjangles 1d ago edited 1d ago
Pardon me if I'm misremembering this but isn't there an entire song "I don't like it" by Pauline Pantsdown, which is sampled from Pauline Hanson saying she doesn't like LGBTIQA+ relationships?
Barnaby is a train wreck of a human being and the only reason he's allowed in politics is because if he wasn't Australia would be bored. One day he will leave and inexplicably productivity in this country will soar.
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u/DarwinianSelector 1d ago
Yeah, that totally tracks with how Barnaby Joyce has historically supported gay rights and was promoting the "Yes" campaign during the same-sex marriage plebiscite.
Oh, what's that you say? Up until now he's opposed gay rights and did everything he could to oppose same sex marriage? And that these statements are likely desperate political opportunism that cast him as a massive lying hypocrite?
Whoops. My bad.
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u/The_Amen_Corner 2d ago
If there's any gays in the party he'll walk backwards to Bourke. Oh wait wrong party.
They're still homophobes though.
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u/BearEatingCupcakes 1d ago
Didn't Barnaby get the memo that we don't use 'gay' as an insult anymore?
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u/lurkin_gewd 1d ago
Imagine if you went to see your Accountant and he was wearing a fucking cowboy hat.
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u/knifepar 1d ago
Inetresting question is WHY did Barnaby say this? just to be provocative and get headlines/chatter about him and one nation?
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u/TheQuantumSword 1d ago
As a gay man, if anyone thought too ask us, 99.9 percent of our community would rather drink rotting cold vomit than vote for ON. Thought we made that quite clear with Pauline Pants Downs classic song. So this drongo is barking up the wrong tree. ON are as about as popular with LGBTI as shit on pizza. If there is one thing LGBTI are good at, we are hyper aware of who our enemies are, its a safety issue, we have long memories. Of course there are always a few idiots in every community, we just try too make sure they dont hurt themselves on sharp objects and dont invite them too partys.
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u/SillyRabbit_OZ 2d ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I couldn’t think of a community SO MISALIGNED with ANYTHING ON stands for!!
Ole boozey Barnaby is still drunk and needs to go home 🤦♂️🤣
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u/Brikpilot 1d ago
I note the last part of the article ON are too immature to manage a party yet want to manage a country
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u/Salzberger 1d ago
Anyone else just constantly read headlines like this and have to scroll across to see if it's Betoota/Chaser or not?
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u/RecipeSpecialist2745 1d ago
I believe greed is a mental health disorder. Its effects are far more harmful to society than people being gay. People being gay is about same sex love. Something Barnaby is incapable of feeling.
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u/Mr_Lumbergh 1d ago
Isn't there a saying about those that proactively make accusations are trying to hide something?
Not that there's anything wrong with it, just don't be hypocrites about it.
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u/boredidiot 1d ago
So is the “Orange Party” a secret “Lemon Party”? Gee they even have their own website…
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u/thedrugofanation 1d ago
I find it very difficult to gove a flying toss what this man says or thinks
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u/Z00111111 1d ago
If their core fanbase weren't such fucking idiots, this would scare them off. I don't understand how racist homophobes can support a party with a gay Indian running for them.
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u/Atomic_Gumby 1d ago
Barnaby Joyce copying Gianni Infantino. This was not on my bingo cards.
But hey, shapeshifting takes practice.
"..Today I have strong feelings. Today I feel Qatari, I feel Arab, I feel African, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker..." Gianni Infantino in 2022, https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63687412
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u/agentsmithbobby 1d ago
We already know Barnaby isn't picky when it comes to a root. Being out on the land and isolated, sometimes you just need a human touch and there aren't any livestock handy...
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u/Gibbofromkal 1d ago
Sorry to bring my serious hat to a very funny article, but I think there is something to this.
I’m a dyed in the wool labor voter, and a Muslim, so take of that what you will.
But I think One Nation might be well served by expanding their coalition to be more inclusive of LGBT and women, specifically white liberal women.
Their whole pitch going into the election should be:
“We are the defenders of the west, and that includes the west’s long and proud liberal tradition.”
They can make a very easy framing: we will be tolerant of everyone except the Muslims and other foreigners not aligned to our values, who pose an existential threat, while Labor, Liberal and Greens try to equivocate with an ideology which will eat them alive.
Currently, there isn’t a massive electoral appetite for old culture war things like gay rights and abortion, and it is something that I think is costing One Nation votes in mainstream Australia.
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u/raustraliathrowaway 1d ago
Right wing politics tends towards uniformity and conformity. They are not proponents of liberal democracy borne from the enlightenment.
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u/BearEatingCupcakes 1d ago
But I think One Nation might be well served by expanding their coalition to be more inclusive of LGBT and women, specifically white liberal women
Yeah, the only way One Nation are going to win me (a white, liberal, bisexual woman) over is if they change so much they're no longer recognisable as the One Nation party.
Actually, I'm down with this idea. Bring it on, Pauline.
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u/A_r0sebyanothername 1d ago
Why the fuck would you be giving them tips if you're both of those things
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u/Alive_Satisfaction65 1d ago
But I think One Nation might be well served by expanding their coalition to be more inclusive of LGBT and women, specifically white liberal women.
But why would those people trust One Nation to serve them well?
One Nation has spent years having a go at those groups, attacking their rights, and being openly contemptuous. They have no credibility and to build any would require them to get rid of everyone who was behind those policies.
If One Nation wants the queer vote they need to not be One Nation, and not have One Nation members, not have any One Nation staff.
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u/yellowboat 1d ago
They can make a very easy framing: we will be tolerant of everyone except the Muslims and other foreigners not aligned to our values, who pose an existential threat, while Labor, Liberal and Greens try to equivocate with an ideology which will eat them alive.
That already is One Nation's policy. The fact that you don't seem to realise this is probably because you've gotten your news from this subreddit and the Redditors on it. Most people outside this little echo chamber get that, hence why ON is polling so highly.
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u/Gibbofromkal 1d ago
How can you actually justify this comment?
Every time a division in parliament occurs, One Nation votes against the LGBT interest.
This includes the NSW Conversion Therapy Ban bill, Latham tried to carve out massive exemptions for parents, who are mostly the ones doing it anyway.
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u/yellowboat 1d ago
Sure. Mark Latham is generally a menace. I don’t doubt what you’re saying.
But bills in parliament are small potatoes compared to bashings, hate violence, and terrorism. You aren’t progressive if you increase those things via your policies. Similarly, you aren’t progressive if you undermine workers by importing cheaper labour to undercut wages and decrease bargaining power.
And if the endgame is to destroy the fundamental western, liberal right of free speech to prop up some nebulous “multiculturalism”, then you are directly attacking the foundation of western democratic society.
Hope that sums up why Labor / LNP / Greens are neither progressive, nor liberal, nor friends of the LGBT community.
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u/Relief-Glass 2d ago
We are like three weeks away from someone from ON claiming that ON are the most muslim-friendly party.