Barnaby Joyce has taken the Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas's excellent advice to "not go gentle into that good night" very much to heart.
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Despite being dumped as Deputy Prime Minister and forced to resign as the leader of The National Party earlier this year, Mr Joyce has been a much more vocal presence in the political landscape than Michael McCormack who replaced him in both those capacities.
The weekend just gone marked one of his most frenetic bursts of media-attention grabbing activity in recent times.
Mr Joyce and Ms Campion dominated the news cycle on Sunday with the revelation they had agreed to a $150,000 interview with Seven's Sunday Night program.
It coincided with an energetic attack by the former Turnbull ally on the government, of which he was recently its second most senior member, on decentralisation.
Both events could have not come at a worse time for the Coalition.
Just when the government appeared to be gaining some traction with early hints from Pauline Hanson the company tax deal might still be on, Joyce has managed to suck all of the oxygen out of the room.
Worse, he provided a distraction at the time serious splits were seemingly starting to appear within the ALP over asylum seeker and offshore processing policy at the weekend's Victorian ALP conference.
Despite the disastrous consequences that have flowed from Mr Joyce's self-serving decision to forcibly relocate the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicine Authority to his own electorate, he does have a point on the decentralisation issue.
It does seem as if his intentions in originally pushing for a serious examination of possible decentralisation initiatives that could make some departments more efficient while, at the same time, benefiting the regions, were generally good.
It was only when this translated into a general thrust to dismantle large parts of the federal public service lock, stock and barrel, working on the by now soundly disproved proposition team members would follow their jobs that issues arose.
Barnaby's beef on the weekend was that despite talking the talk on decentralisation the Federal government, and his successor, Mr McCormack, weren't walking the walk.
The May budget has only made provision for the relocation of fewer than 100 jobs from six agencies out of Canberra and other major metropolitan centres. Mr Joyce described three of the six relocations as "bullshit" on the basis jobs were just being moved from one part of a state capital to another.
"Decentralisation has to be authentic decentralisation; that is not from Sydney to Paramatta," he said.
That is both a fair call and a reminder many of the policies put in place under Mr Joyce allowed the Nationals to gain seats during the 2016 election even though the Liberals went backwards.
Barnaby Joyce's relegation to the backbench provides an opportunity for sanity to prevail on decentralisation. It appears his colleagues are intending to take it.