The idea of a people’s bank has been long floated by the Greens. Anything that reduces the oligopoly power of the big four banks is a good thing

Barnaby Joyce is now the One Nation Treasury spokesperson, which serves as a lovely reminder of his triumphant 15 weeks as shadow spokesperson for finance and debt reduction from December 2009 to March 2010. A period during which he went to the National Press Club and confused millions with billions, and talked about “net gross public and private debt” which … is not a thing.

But with Pauline Hanson too busy swanning around in the UK meeting with far-right convicted criminals to care about her own constituents, someone has to talk about things that might affect Australians.

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