Barnaby Joyce has confirmed he spoke to Pauline Hanson over the weekend and declared her party was doing a “good job” after this masthead revealed he was in advanced talks about defecting to One Nation .

Joyce dodged repeated questions about the potential shift in interviews on Monday morning, saying nothing had been locked in and refusing to say whether other colleagues were also considering leaving the junior Coalition partner.

Barnaby Joyce in discussion with Liberal Andrew Hastie during a sitting of Parliament in September. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“I did ring her last night because seeing as they are talking about us, we may as well speak to each other rather than through the media,” Joyce said. “I spoke to her out of politeness because I think this was the decent thing to d

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