Insults fly as Barnaby Joyce defends Pauline Hanson for criticising PM’s mother over public housing record

Pauline Hanson’s criticism of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s mother living in public housing has continued to cause a torrent of criticism, which Barnaby Joyce has described as “socialist”. The One Nation leader sparked a political firestorm after she described the prime minister as “pathetic” for referencing his childhood living in a Housing Commission property on a podcast in February. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: PM losing trust with voters amid Hanson’s attack on his mother “Oh, I’ve actually grew up in a Housing Commission house. You have no idea how hard it is to grow up in a Housing Commission house. Oh, my God. Don’t talk about a prime minister,” Hanson said. “He said his mother lived in the same one she was born in for 65 years. “Sorry, that’s not on to me.