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“Go Barn! Go!” they bellowed.
“You can do it! Make it rain, Barn! Wooooo!”
Barnaby Joyce made it rain this afternoon on a drought-stricken local farm today after telling onlookers he was going to harness the power of his own mind to bring the wet stuff.
Scott Morrison’s special envoy on the drought grunted and spat as he mustered all the mental energy he could – his eyes transfixed on the cloud.
The owners of Nappatunga Station out on the tip road began to jump up and down with glee as the mare’s tails up there on the edge of space sunk in the sky, transforming into dark cumulonimbus clouds as they neared land.
Taking in a quick sharp breath, Joyce finished off the cloud with a guttural, primal bellow.
“All of a sudden, it started to piss down,” said Nappatunga manager, Coulton Kidman.
“A great crack of lightning shot over our heads and Old Barn went down there and then on the claypan. Breathing heavy, he was. But as the first drops of rejuvenating rain slapped onto the back of his RB Sellars sports coat, he came back to life,”
“We all raised Barn up on our shoulders, like that little girl from the taco ads. Cheering his name and throwing his limp body around! A hero he is to our quite south-west corner!”
Joyce’s visit to Betoota wraps up tomorrow with the special envoy heading to Muttaburra this weekend to make it rain there.
More to come.
