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Simon Birmingham may be trying to walk back the both sides" of the so-called freedom protests, which included threats of violence and death against sitting state MPs, but Barnaby Joyce is holding the line. There is a lot of work being done by a small group of people to make sure those protesting aren't all labelled as mad". This is despite that same group of people usually condemning peaceful protests from the left.

Here is Joyce on the Seven network this morning:

There's not there's not a person in this building, not any one, I hope exists that says that threatening a person's life, building gallows, doing all that kind of total garbage is something that is just ... we don't want it.

OK. So, no one is suggesting for one second, we do that. And it's outrageous.