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Daisy Dumas

Afternoon Update: PM calls for Barnaby Joyce to be dumped; mother behind forced marriage jailed; and surfer jokes about missing limb

Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce speaks at a rally at Lake Illawarra.
Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce speaks at a rally at Lake Illawarra. Photograph: Barnaby Joyce | Facebook

Good afternoon. Barnaby Joyce is in the headlines again, with Anthony Albanese calling for the Nationals MP to be dumped for likening ballots to bullets at an anti-renewables rally.

Joyce urged the crowd to “load that magazine” at the voting booth against the prime minister and the energy minister, Chris Bowen, adding: “Goodbye, Chris. Goodbye, Albo.”

Joyce’s subsequent apology has not stopped an incredulous Albanese from asking: “What does this bloke have to do to lose his job?”

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• Friday’s Afternoon Update was written by Luca Ittimani, which was not reflected in the byline.

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