Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House.

Barnaby Joyce dipped his head as he told reporters, after conducting half a dozen interviews across two days, that he didn't want to talk about himself "that much".

Standing outside his electorate office in Tamworth, the Nationals MP's frustration at the party he once led was palpable as he rattled off his gripes. His evergreen annoyance over the Coalition's position on net zero was chief among them.

As was the relationship breakdown between himself and David Littleproud and whoever was responsible for sharing the news of his flirtation with Pauline Hanson and One Nation.

The fevered scuttlebutt goes like this: Joyce won't recontest the next election i

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