One Nation has changed, says Barnaby Joyce, as he preferences them second on how-to-vote card

Barnaby Joyce addresses the New England candidates’ forum for the 2022 election in Tamworth. He defended putting One Nation high up his how-to-vote card, saying the party had changed. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Barnaby Joyce says Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has changed, defending his decision to give his preferences to the party’s candidate in New England, Richard Thomas.

“The party of 10, 15 years ago is not the party of today,” he said at a New England candidate forum on Monday night.