He may have been suggested as the best person to negotiate with Pauline Hanson, but Barnaby Joyce isn't rushing to the One Nation leader.
Ms Hanson's former adviser John Pasquarelli reckons the deputy prime minister is the government's ideal intermediary with the firebrand senator-elect.
But Mr Joyce has flatly rejected One Nation's policies banning Muslim immigration and CCTV cameras in mosques.
"I'm not into banning people on the premise of their belief," the Nationals leader told Sky News on Wednesday.
"Every group has their ratbags."
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He named Muslim-born Labor politicians Ed Husic and Sam Dastyari as decent men.
"I'm not going to start throwing rocks at them."
However, Mr Joyce said Ms Hanson's election to the Senate must be respected.
And while there will be times he disagrees with her: "I don't want to start the process ... having a fight with Ms Hanson."
