As deputy prime minister and Nationals MP for New England, Barnaby Joyce supported a campaign for the town of Armidale to be a site for resettling refugees. Now, as a member of One Nation, his party advocates for limiting migration to Australia to those who can speak English. But, Joyce told Guardian Australia’s Adeshola Ore, there ‘has to be a form of temperance with people who are in imminent threat of their lives … I don’t think anyone is suggesting that if your house is completely burning down we’re going to lock the doors and keep you in there’
Barnaby Joyce suggests One Nation could welcome some refugees while barring other migrants
