One Nation’s economic thought bubbles have little substance – except for one

‘The big four have a great “core business” of operating in an oligopoly where combined they have more than two-and-a-half times the amount of home loans than the rest of the banking sector,’ writes Greg Jericho. Photograph: AAP

Barnaby Joyce is now the One Nation Treasury spokesperson, which serves as a lovely reminder of his triumphant 15 weeks as shadow spokesperson for finance and debt reduction from December 2009 to March 2010. A period during which he went to the National Press Club and confused millions with billions, and talked about “net gross public and private debt” which … is not a thing.

But with Pauline Hanson too busy swanning around in the UK meeting with far-right convicted criminals to care about her own constituents, someone has to talk about things that might affect Australians.