Margin Call: Barnaby Joyce puts Seven interview deal on the Parliamentary record

Screen grabs of Vikki Campion and Barnaby Joyce during their first interview since the birth of their baby. Picture: Channel 7

So it’s official.

Former deputy prime minister turned Nationals backbencher Barnaby Joyce has finally put his unprecedented interview deal with billionaire Kerry Stokes’ Seven Network on the public record.

The train-crash interview was aired way back on June 3, with Joyce only just revealing officially to the Parliament that the deal was done with he and his partner Vikki Campion, with the monies to be held in trust for their newborn son Sebastian.

An initial payment for the interview was made to Campion, Joyce was at pains to reveal.

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He’s not letting it all hang out though, with Joyce silent on the amount the couple were paid — believed to be $150,000 — to sit down with Seven’s Alex Cullen.

Joyce’s book Weatherboard and Iron — Politics, The Bush and Me, is set for release on August 7, with booksellers already taking pre-orders for what is being billed as the “deeply personal” memoir.

What more could we possibly bear to hear?

Read the full Margin Call column tomorrow in print and online.