‘Pick to be a good Australian’: Joyce warns social harmony is ‘going off the rails’

One Nation Treasury Spokesperson Barnaby Joyce says Australians should embrace a common national identity, warning recent events have exposed cracks in the country’s social cohesion.

“You pick to be a good Australian and to work within the guardrails, be compliant within the guardrails,” Mr Joyce told Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell.

“I think the whole essence of conservatism is that you try to conserve.

“You conserve what you have and what we have had overwhelmingly is social harmony; unfortunately, with the Bondi issue, it was a complete clarifying call that this may be going off the rails.”