As former Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce announces his plan to leave the Nationals Party at the next election, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has decided to rev up her push to pick him up from the Canberra footpath he drunkly lays on.

Pauline went into her torn shopping bag of tricks to try and finalise a deal, by offering Barnaby what he wants more than anything: the power to pick the next batch of party interns. [...]