Barnaby Joyce attends anti-immigration rally despite warnings from Albanese and NSW police

Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has joined an anti-immigration rally at Prince Albert Park in Sydney and told the crowd Anthony Albanese is unfit to lead the country.

Mr Joyce, who renounced the Nationals and defected to One Nation, addressed about two hundred people gathered for the Put Australia First rally.

“You should be allowed to go to the beach on a Sunday without being murdered,” Mr Joyce said.

“(My wife) was crying because people had been murdered, because children had been murdered, because old people had been murdered and because our nation had been sullied by filth.”

He went on to criticise Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s handling of the anti-Semitic Bondi terror attack which claimed 15 lives, insisting he should be removed from office. The crowd yelled out “sack him”.

Earlier on Sunday, My Joyce had told media that Australians wanted to “take things easy”.

“We’re Australians. We’re easy going. We want to take things easy, and that’s been taken away,” he said.

Throughout the week, NSW police have been warning against various public demonstrations in the wake of the terror attack.

On Sunday, both police and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urged Australians not to attend the anti-immigration rallies planned to take place in Melbourne and Sydney.

NSW Premier Chris Minns said that these rallies would only hinder the public’s healing process.

“I don’t think that can happen if we have mass, major protests through the heart of the city, which, in my view, would rip apart and tear whatever scar tissue has been healed in just seven days,” he told the ABC.

-with AAP