BARNABY Joyce is not going to be riding off into the sunset with fellow Queenslander Bob Katter any time soon, no matter how much the maverick independent tries to woo the outspoken Senator to his new party.

Katter's Australia Party is trying to get the Nationals Senator to join the fledgling party, saying it is the only way Senator Joyce can protect the interests of Australia's farms and agricultural industry.

Party president, Max Menzel was full of praise for Senator Joyce's recent outspokenness over Coalition support of the sale of Cubbie station.

"Barnaby made a courageous public stand within the LNP against the sale of Cubbie Station but it will be to no avail if he remains a member of a party that supports this foreign takeover," Mr Menzel said recently.

"Barnaby has a choice to make. He can stay within the LNP and toe the Liberal's party line or he can join with Katter's Australian Party and freely campaign to save rural Australia.

"It's time for Barnaby to wake up and go with the party that will reject the sell out of Australia."

Senator Joyce's reaction to the party membership invitation was in typical Barnaby style.

"They want me to grab a big hat, so I've gone down to my local country clobber store and told them I want to look more substantial than Bob Katter and they've set me up with a sombrero and two bandanas and two Colt .45s and my horse is called Chocolate Thunder, and here I come," he told the ABC.

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