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Barnaby Thomas Gerald Joyce (born 17 April 1967) is an Australian politician who is currently the Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources. He was sworn in on 18 September 2013 as Minister for Agriculture in the Abbott Government, before adding Water Resources to his portfolio in 2015 in the Turnbull Government. A former accountant, Joyce was a member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland from July 2005 until August 2013. He represented The Nationals, succeeding Nigel Scullion as the Leader of the National Party in the Senate on 17 September 2008.〔 Although the Queensland divisions of the Liberal and National parties merged into the Liberal National Party of Queensland in 2008, he remained Leader of the National Party in the Senate. He crossed the floor nineteen times under the Howard coalition government. In April 2013 Joyce was preselected by the National Party to contest the House of Representatives seat of New England in New South Wales at the September 2013 election. He resigned from the Senate on 8 August 2013. He easily won New England for the Nationals in the biggest swing in Australian political history and is now on a margin of 21.1% and was then elected deputy leader of the Nationals. His ranking is number seven in the Australian Cabinet. == Early life == His father, James Joyce, was born in New Zealand, and moved to Australia to study veterinary science at the University of Sydney, where he met Joyce's mother, Marie, and they made their living as farmers.〔 Barnaby Joyce was born in Tamworth, New South Wales and raised in Woolbrook.〔(Public Speeches ); retrieved 17 April 2010. 〕 One of six children from a sheep-and-cattle farming family, he attended St Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney, and the University of New England in Armidale, where he resided at St Albert's College, graduating with a Bachelor of Financial Administration degree in 1989.〔 He served in the Australian Army Reserve from 1994 to 1999. At university Joyce met his wife, Natalie, and they married in 1993. After graduating, Joyce moved around northern New South Wales and Queensland, and at one point worked as a bouncer and later as a farm worker.〔 Joyce worked in the accounting profession from 1991 to 2005 before entering Parliament and is a Fellow of CPA Australia. Joyce and his wife have four daughters and live in St George in western Queensland, where Joyce had an accounting business.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barnaby Joyce」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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