Locals take to streets to draw outline of Barnaby Joyce after video

Locals have broken their silence over the embarrassing video showing the ex-deputy PM sprawled on the side of the road.

Forget Parliament House, the spot where Barnaby Joyce was caught on video lying on his back near a gutter has become one of Canberra’s most photographed landmarks.

Footage showed the nation’s former deputy prime minister, 56, sprawled on the footpath at Lonsdale Street, in the suburb of Braddon last Wednesday at 11.26pm.

Sources claimed the Nationals frontbencher was sitting on the large pot plant while having an animated phone conversation with his wife, Vikki Campion, when he fell off, “rolled around” on the ground and continued with his call.

The incident prompted locals to erect a sign saying “Barnaby’s no rizz BnB” with chalk outline of where the leader had fallen.

A box with cans and bottles of alcohol was seen placed next to the sign.

The site has attracted a lot of attention from both locals and tourists, with many stopping to take pictures of the capital’s latest memorial.

An outline is seen next to a planter box where Barnaby Joyce was filmed intoxicated on his back, talking in his phone at 11.30pm last Wednesday. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

The chalk drawing came days after a previous artwork was created but later washed away in the rain.

One local said workers appear every day to scrub away the mural but it reappears.

He said: “Every day by noon it’s back. The harder they try to erase the cleverer [the] response is!”

On Monday, Mr Joyce explained he is on prescription medication and was told “certain things may happen” if he mixed alcohol with it.

The new display is much more detailed than the original outline of the MP. Picture: Sam Turner

“They say certain things may happen to you if you drink and they were absolutely 100 per cent right,” he said to Seven’s Sunrise.

“Obviously, I made a big mistake, there’s no excuse for it.”

Nationals leader David Littleproud said they would be working with Mr Joyce, the former leader of the party, “to make sure that he’s got all the support that he needs”.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said of the chalk mark, “it can only happen in Canberra where all those Greens and Labor staffers are”.