“Get Rid of the Department of Climate Change”: Aussie One Nation’s Condition for a Future Coalition Government Deal

Essay by Eric Worrall

One Nation, which is riding high in national polls, has laid out a hard condition for supporting any future right wing Aussie coalition government.

Barnaby Joyce says One Nation willing to enter coalition agreement in exchange for scrapping department of climate change

Barnaby Joyce has confirmed One Nation would be willing to enter an agreement with the Coalition in exchange for a major policy concession.

Oscar Godsell Political Reporter
May 3, 2026 – 8:21AM

Barnaby Joyce has revealed that One Nation would be willing to strike a deal with the Coalition to form government in the future.

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“I think we’ve been clear on this, we would offer supply and confidence,” Mr Joyce said on Sunday.

“We are on the conservative side, so there’s no, there’s no ambiguity about that.”

Mr Joyce said any agreement would hinge on policy demands, including the abolition of the Department of Climate Change.

“What we will want is policy, and we’ll be very, very straight about that policy, such as getting rid of the climate change department,” he said.

“It’s done so much damage, so much burden, it has not changed the climate is put us in a precarious position on fuel, precarious position on electricity… it needs to be gone.

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Read more: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/barnaby-joyce-says-one-nation-willing-to-enter-coalition-agreement-in-exchange-for-scrapping-department-of-climate-change/news-story/49d83ac54cf5c5ac0386927d6aff8623

WUWT has in the past been critical Barnaby Joyce, who as leader of the National Party in 2021 caved to demands from the liberals to support Net Zero.

But then Joyce became aware of the immense damage being done to rural communities – the alleged brutal bully boy tactics of energy companies, the breakdown of rural social cohesion as some farmers sold out to energy companies, while others resisted.

This literally brought home to Joyce what a catastrophe Net Zero is for Australia. Having the damage right on his doorstep awakened Joyce to the suffering of farmers in rural Australia, having their fields trampled at will by surveyors and construction engineers backed by harsh penalties for property owners who try to interfere with their work, all for the sake of Australia’s net zero energy folly.

Barnaby left the National Party and has become a leading figure in One Nation, helping One Nation surge in the polls to the point it is neck and neck with other major parties. If this popularity translates into vote share in the next federal election, One Nation will be in a powerful position to dictate terms to whatever party wants their support to form a new government.

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ToldYouSo

May 3, 2026 10:19 am

From the above article:
“Mr. Joyce said any agreement would hinge on policy demands, including . . .”

Don’t you think the first demand should be that One Nation and “any future right wing Aussie coalition government” declare what each other means when using the term “climate change”?

To date, I’ve seen no definition that comes close to describing the objective parameters associated with “climate change”, other than “it’s naturally occurring”, such as evidenced by glacial/interglacial cycles over the last million years or so.

Mr.

Reply to ToldYouSo

May 3, 2026 11:22 am

Doesn’t really matter what terms are conjured up to argue about climates.

All that counts is what policies, public funding, laws, regulations, restrictions, etc are being enacted by governments, bureaucrats & courts to indulge & enrich the proponents of the AGW bullshit.

This cancer needs to be excised asap.

Jeff Alberts

Reply to Mr.

May 5, 2026 6:52 am

All that counts is recognizing that attempting to control the weather is a fool’s expensive errand. Adaptation is always the best course in this case.

George Kaplan

Reply to ToldYouSo

May 3, 2026 6:21 pm

Does it really matter what climate change means if the government removes itself from the debate, and stops subsidising climate change policies like renewables or bust, over constant, reliable, stable forms of power?

The current government has apparently just announced its next budget will focus on the 4th economy – one powered by CCP solar, CCP wind, CCP batteries, and using CCP cars and trucks to move people and cargo. No word yet if Labor will opt to use Huawei for telecommunications and/or military technology but …

Will Australia be the first 4th World nation?

Iain Reid

Reply to George Kaplan

May 3, 2026 11:41 pm

George,

you’ll have to go some to beat the U.K..

mleskovarsocalrrcom

May 3, 2026 10:20 am

I smell voter fraud if the Coalition agrees. The Marxists have their tentacles in every vote in the world.

bnice2000

Reply to mleskovarsocalrrcom

May 3, 2026 4:24 pm

I’m guessing there are way to many CINOs (conservative in name only) in the so-called Liberal (meant to be conservative) party for a coalition with One Nation to ever happen.

MANY of the so-called Liberal and National party members have decidedly left-wing idiotologies.

Leon de Boer

Reply to mleskovarsocalrrcom

May 3, 2026 5:38 pm

If current poll numbers held there aren’t enough votes to do that. The lower house with is preferential system you might cobble together to do it but the upper house is done by quota.

Labor primary vote 27%
Greens 12%
Independents 2%

Combined that is only 41%

Labor is already in the position they need the coalition or greens and a few independents to get any bill thru. On current pole numbers if labor was in power they would need coalition or one nation.

edit: Not sure how this ended here it was in response to varg below. If a mod could move it plz.

George Kaplan

Reply to Leon de Boer

May 3, 2026 6:16 pm

Sadly it’s the other way.

Per the Sky News link – One Nation (27%) + Coalition (20%) = 47% so don’t have the numbers to win government. Worse, remember, there seem to be a lot of champagne socialist types who vote Coalition which is how Turnbull won power, and why the Teals took a chunk of the Liberal electorates – areas with too much money but which can’t quite bring themselves to vote Green. They will vote Labor and even Greens before ON.

Labor (27%) + Greens (14%) + Independents (5%) = 46% so on paper also don’t have the numbers, but if they win half the Other (7%), or pick up a quarter of the Coalition votes, that’s the election.

People are screaming about soaring costs of living, soaring rents, soaring homeless, soaring interest (well that’s actually a positive for savers), soaring …, yet 2PP polling continually shows Labor romping home. Only 25% of voters think Labor are doing a decent job, but the 2PP majority refuse to vote for someone other than those causing them harm.

You can’t fix stupid, or masochism.

Harold Pierce

Reply to George Kaplan

May 4, 2026 1:23 am

… champagne socialist types…
LOL! Many decades ago in an episode of “Law and Order”, DA Fred Thompson quipped that in NYC there are many “limousine liberals” and “silk-stocking environmentalists” to which can now be added “champagne socialists”.

I first saw “champagne socialists” mentioned in a recent comment posted at Francis Menton’s blog “The Manhattan Contrarian”.

Gnrnr

Reply to Harold Pierce

May 5, 2026 8:06 pm

its a very old description used in aus. been around since probably before the 70’s.

varg

May 3, 2026 11:17 am

One Nation is neck to neck with Labour if I saw the attached link correctly. Well let’s hope Australia doesn’t see a “big” coalition with the only purpose to block any meaningful opposition and continue with the path to utter destruction… the “best example” herefore is sadly Germany.

Shoki

May 3, 2026 11:42 am

Reagan quoted a Russian proverb, “Trust but verify”. Sadly, we need to amend that to “Do not trust and verify every step”. These zealots never give up. They are far more likely to follow Lenin’s dictum, “You probe with bayonets: if you find mush, you push. If you find steel, you withdraw”.

Bruce Cobb

May 3, 2026 11:53 am

While they are at it, they should scrap the departments of Space Aliens, Unicorns, Ghosts, Goblins, Keebler Elves, and Witchcraft. There are probably more that I missed.

Eng_Ian

May 3, 2026 2:23 pm

The masses would be happy if they are granted the freedom of speech, at present it is just about illegal to question anything the government dictate, whatever the department.

If you dare to raise your voice during some welcome to country session you are expected to be named and shamed, kicked from your employment and removed from the community in shackles.

What happened to your choice to say no to anything the government wanted to drag you into? Climate scam be damned, along with a long list of other schemes that the government insist on ‘investing’ in.

RickWill

May 3, 2026 3:38 pm

Unless LNP preference One Nation, Labor will win the next Federal Election.

When One Nation is polling 50+%, I will have more faith in Australian voters.

Blackout Bowen has won his Mcmahon electorate FIVE times. That alone gives an indication of the thinking ability of voters.

bnice2000

Reply to RickWill

May 3, 2026 4:27 pm

LNP and ON have to at least have a preference swap deal to have any chance of overcoming the Labor gerrymander. !

George Kaplan

Reply to RickWill

May 3, 2026 6:06 pm

Current polling suggests only 25% think Labor are governing competently, yet a 2PP majority want to reward them with yet another term.

You can’t fix stupid.

Eng_Ian

Reply to George Kaplan

May 3, 2026 9:32 pm

Voting in Oz is compulsory, that ensures that all the cash handouts, in the last months of a government term, will result in the most focused return on investment from the otherwise too thick or lazy to vote department.

Oz would be better served if only those who could be bothered to vote actually got to vote. People who are too thick to know the policies of the government should be allowed to stay home and enjoy their bread and circus moments.

George Kaplan

Reply to Eng_Ian

May 4, 2026 5:40 am

If you have to ask polling booth staff what your voting area is, and who you’re supposed to vote for, you really shouldn’t be voting, and yet such types do.

observa

May 3, 2026 8:40 pm

Well you never know-
Federal government looks to cut up to 28,000 public service jobs
but don’t hold your breath with the usual suspects-
Bureaucrats grow at double rate of population
They’re just running out of other people’s money and have to raise more taxes on May12 and the Reserve Bank are on wait and see with more interest rate rises so they’re between a rock and a hard place.

George Daddis

May 4, 2026 1:10 pm

A Department of Climate Change?
Why not a Department of Penguin Invasion?

Jeff Alberts

May 5, 2026 6:50 am

“But then Joyce became aware of the immense damage being done to rural communities – the alleged brutal bully boy tactics of energy companies, the breakdown of rural social cohesion as some farmers sold out to energy companies, while others resisted.”

Do you really want a leader who couldn’t already see that?

stevo

May 5, 2026 4:31 pm

More power to One Nation….. it would be a joyful day to see the back end of the current nation destroying Labor Government and the damaging climate policies.