The remark of a personal nature that angered Barnaby Joyce

Man on other side of Barnaby Joyce stalking accusation speaks up about hat-flicking pub incident - Northern Daily Leader

The man, a one-time Tony Windsor supporter who said he is no longer aligned with any political party, said the first time he had met Mr Joyce was unplanned at a Bingara pub.
The second time was the Graman Hotel.
The man said he had canvassed friends on “What would you like me to ask Barnaby?” before he arrived, so “I had a big list of questions to ask”.
"He was friendly initially and then I asked him whether he was going to pay back the money he had earned while he was illegally in parliament. That obviously hit a nerve,” the man said.
"Then he's like, ‘Who are you with? Who sent you?’ I'm like, ‘I'm with no one’.”
The man said that he had mentioned mining magnate Gina Rinehart's $40,000 agriculture award (which Mr Joyce declined) and “he took umbrage with that”.
"His supporters, of which most of the people in the pub were, sort of started to round on me a bit,” the man said.
“One of them threatened to throw me down the stairs,” he said.
"Barnaby said, ‘Mate, you're being a goose ... I’m going over there’ and he walked off.”
The man said about half an hour later, as Mr Joyce was leaving, he came back over .
"He shook my hand and I said, ‘Barnaby, I'd like to make your life difficult because it seems nobody is asking you the difficult questions’ or words to that effect,” the man said.
“He said, I'll be at the Tamworth Leagues Club, as if it was an invitation, and walked out.”
As Mr Joyce moved to the door the man made the statement about the candidate’s personal life.
"He stormed back in … and loomed over me, hissing ‘What did you just say’? He was definitely being very threatening,” the man said.
"My friend grabbed him by the elbow and then he flicked my hat off and stormed out.
"They're the only encounters I have ever had with Barnaby."
The pub incident was backed up by a witness, who is also a friend of the man.
The witness said he believed Mr Joyce had assumed his friend was a Greens supporter and, as a result, “had immediately dismissed him, his questions and the relevance of his questions”.
The witness confirmed that a comment of a personal nature was made towards Mr Joyce as he was leaving the pub.
The man said Mr Joyce did a U-turn and came back at his friend in a “very aggressive manner”.
“I intervened in a placid way to try to prevent Barnaby from escalating [the incident],” the man said.
He said he encouraged Mr Joyce to leave, saying that “it's probably not worth it”.

NOT stalked or ambushed! Aggro Joyce gets in another Barney with constituents - Independent Australia

Barnaby Joyce, the man who wants to be deputy PM again, has a volatile temper and deals with constituents by denigrating them if they disagree with him.Barnaby Joyce, the man who wants to be deputy PM again, has a volatile temper and deals with constituents by denigrating them if they disagree with him. ...

Barnaby was halfway out the front door when the environmentalist bloke bade him farewell by saying:
“Say hello to your mistress for me.”
It wasn’t said loudly, but Barnaby, who is clearly not hard of hearing, spun on his heels as if stung and, fists clenched, stormed back into the bar.
Face bright red and spitting chips, Barnaby loomed his 1.85-metre frame over the smaller man and demanded:
“What did you say?”
There was silence in the bar. Slack jaws all around, including Barnaby’s minder, who you would think would be equipped to handle these kinds of situations — it’s hard to think it was his first.
The martial arts guy stepped in. He took a gentle hold of Barnaby’s elbow to stop his arm moving about and said something like,
“Mate, he said don’t miss us, now calm down.”
Barnaby sort of did but, in a final act of petulant defiance, reached down and knocked the environmentalist’s hat from his head.
It was a near thing.

New England by-election: Barnaby Joyce up for fight - The Weekly Times

BARNABY Joyce says he’s “not taking anything for granted” as he faces voters this Saturday in a bid to win back the seat of New England. While the Nationals leader — who was disqualified from Parliament in October due to his dual citizenship — is hotly anticipated to win easily, rival candidates maintain Mr Joyce is “out of touch” with the electorate.