Pauline Hanson has invited Barnaby Joyce to have a home-cooked meal with her as she uses One Nation’s soaring poll numbers to persuade the Nationals MP to join her ranks, despite the Coalition signing up to his opposition to net zero.

This masthead revealed last month that Joyce was considering leaving the party he has led twice to move to One Nation in what the northern NSW MP billed as a revolt over net zero and disagreements with Nationals leader David Littleproud.

Despite the Nationals and Liberals both abandoning net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as a target, which Joyce fervently campaigned against, he has not committed to staying with the Coalition.

Hanson said she would be in Canberra next week for parliament and planned to meet with Joyce. “I intend to cook him dinner and h

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