Barnaby does Diggers

ON THE HUSTINGS: Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce, who is running for the lower-house seat of New England recently vacated by Tony Windsor, dropped in to Diggers & Dealers.

Flanked by fellow Nationals Senator, Fiona Nash and Nationals hopeful for the seat of O’Connor Chub Witham, Joyce was quizzed by the attendant phalanx of journalists on a number of subjects, including the need to bolster the prospecting component of Australia’s mining industry.

 

Watch Barnaby give his thoughts on the prospects for prospecting here.

Witham is hoping to retain the seat of O’Connor for the Nationals, who won the seat at the last election by ousting long-time Liberal maverick, Wilson Tuckey.

The seat is currently sat in by National MP Tony Crook, who has surprisingly announced his intentions to retire at the 2013 election after just one term in the House of Representatives.

Witham outlined his credentials for the job by saying he has been a regular attendee at Diggers & Dealers throughout his career as a mining geologist.