Barnaby Joyce faces boos as he speaks out on ABC’s Q+A show about why he opposes the Indigenous Voice To Parliament to a hostile ABC crowd

Barnaby Joyce faced boos from a hostile ABC crowd when he spoke about why he opposes the Voice in Parliament.

A member of the public questioned Mr Joyce, filmmaker Rachel Perkins and Independent MP Kate Chaney about whether Australia was ‘mature’ enough to hold a referendum on the Voice in Parliament.

Mr Joyce described the upcoming referendum as ‘probably one of the most divisive things to come in my area in political history’ on the QandA on Monday night.

“You ask two people who were born in the same hospital, went to the same elementary school, went to the same high school, and lived in two houses next to each other in a regional town. One apparently has access to two fields in the federal parliament and the other has access to one,” he said.

As the former deputy prime minister was finishing his answer, he was interrupted by boos from the audience.

Host Patricia Karvellas stepped in to contain the crowd and ask them to be “respectful” of Mr Joyce’s response.

‘If other people hear it [that]it just resonates with why they are angry,” he ended.

Ms. Karvellas then asked Mr. Joyce if Voice is valid if the

‘But even those laws, PK, are put forward by a parliament elected by all Australians…’ he said, before being interrupted by Mrs Chaney.

The pair went on to argue, talking over each other about the legality of the proposed vote and whether it would be taken half a minute before the Supreme Court.

“Of course you can’t say it won’t go to the Supreme Court, because we want the rule of law to apply to everything. We don’t fix things and say the rule of law rule doesn’t apply to that,” Ms Chaney said.

As Mr. Joyce prepared to respond, Mrs. Karvellas interrupted the arguing couple and moved on to the next subject.

Earlier in the evening, Karvelas’ first night as a full-time Q&A presenter got off to a bizarre start, with an audience member making a strange comment about the Commonwealth Games.

The woman, named Joy, asked if Victoria’s cancellation of the Commonwealth Games last week “marked the end of the conquerors who defined Australia’s future.”

Panelist James Heappey – the UK’s Defense Secretary – initially ignored the ‘conquerors’ comments and spoke of sport in general.

So the questioner tried again and said, “The original concept of the Commonwealth games is the Empire Games… So how does one achieve an empire?”

“They’re conquering itand then these games are in honor of the king and to celebrate the king using all the conquered lands to fight against each other.’

Patricia Karvelas got off to a bizarre start as the new host of Q+A with an ABC spectator making the bizarre claim that the Commonwealth Games exist for the ‘conquered’ to compete for the pleasure of the ‘conquerors’

The question’s renewed focus led Mr. Heappey to defend the Commonwealth, the Games and his nation.

“The Commonwealth now has lands that were never part of the British Empire,” he said.

‘I was in Togo a few months ago. They joined the Commonwealth because they want to be part of a club of nations bound by friendship and shared values ​​and no one is forced to send a team to the Commonwealth Games.

“People do that because they enjoy competing internationally in the game called ‘the friendlies’.”

Daniel Andrews made the decision last week to cancel the Commonwealth Games, which are held in regional Victoria.

The state premier claimed that the cost of the Games – originally forecast at $2.6 billion – had risen to $7 billion.

Q+A panellist James Heappey (pictured) – the UK’s Minister for the Armed Forces – defended the Commonwealth and the Commonwealth Games after a bizarre question on Q+AKar

Karvelas hosted the show after it was announced that Stan Grant had permanently stepped back from the role, two months after going on leave following racial abuse.

ABC news director Justin Stevens said Grant, 59, will continue to work on new projects for the national broadcaster.

“We want to do everything we can to support Stan and ensure he continues to play an important role in the Australian media,” Stevens said Monday.

“He has the ability to steer our media toward a kinder and more constructive conversation. In Wiradjuri, ‘dyiraamalang’ means a teacher and leader.

“Stan Grant, a proud Wiradjuri man, is both and I look forward to seeing what he does in the future.

“Patricia Karvelas has done an excellent job as a substitute and we are delighted that she has agreed to continue in that role.”

Stan Grant (pictured) has stepped down from his role as host of ABC’s Q+A two months after stepping down over racial abuse

Grant remains on leave with no return date, an ABC spokesperson said.

The former Q+A presenter had announced in May that he would be stepping down after being racially insulted at a panel discussing colonialism ahead of King Charles’s coronation.

The ABC received more than 1,000 complaints for its alleged “disrespectful” coverage of the May 6 coronation, which linked the British monarchy to the expropriation of Aboriginal people since 1788.

In the wake of the coverage, Grant said he had been subjected to “relentless racial smut” with viewers targeting him for being Indigenous.