One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce fires up anti-abortion rally

 

 

“You must keep that fire burning for those people who can’t

stand up for themselves and I call them people – they’re not foetuses”.

 

Barnaby Joyce

  

 

Farid Farid and Robyn Wuth
Jun 03, 2026, updated Jun 03, 2026

 

Source: AAP

 

Riding high on One Nation’s popularity in the polls, backbench MP Barnaby Joyce has fronted an anti-abortion rally with a fiery warning to other politicians.

 

Joyce said his pro-life stance was one of conviction rather than of political opportunism, drawing massive cheers from a crowd of about 2000 people outside the NSW parliament on a chilly Sydney evening.

“Politically, does this make you popular? No, you’d probably lose half your votes every time you do it. But you know why you do it because that’s the right thing to do,” he said.

 

Joyce, who left the Nationals in late 2025 as the far-right One Nation’s polling rise gathered pace, argued that galvanising support around the pro-life cause could change the political landscape.

 

One Nation has leapfrogged Labor to become the political party with the highest primary vote, according to a Redbridge poll this week.

 

“I don’t know much about a lot, but I know a lot about politics and the one thing politicians fear is losing their job. They’re very mindful of that,” Joyce said.

“You must keep that fire burning for those people who can’t stand up for themselves and I call them people – they’re not foetuses.”

 

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce vowed to ‘keep the fire burning’ for the

anti-abortion cause. Photo: AAP

 

Tuesday’s demonstration was organised by anti-abortion campaigner Joanna Howe in support of a bill in NSW parliament proposed by Libertarian MP John Ruddick to criminalise gender selective abortions.