Barnaby Joyce’s task in the New England byelection has got considerably easier, with Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers both ruling out a run on Monday. The former independent MP Tony Windsor ruled out contesting the seat after the high court found on Friday that Joyce was ineligible due to holding New Zealand citizenship by descent. Pauline Hanson (@PaulineHansonOz) One Nation, New England by-election announcement. -PH #auspol pic.twitter.com/Wd6ODLTSUUThe Shooters, Fishers and Farmers NSW upper house member Robert Brown blamed Joyce and Malcolm Turnbull, who he said had “stood in parliament, hand on heart, saying Mr Joyce was not ineligible on the basis of his citizenship”. “As such we have not made preparations to field a candidate in the New England byelection,” he said.

Source: The Guardian October 30, 2017 05:03 UTC