Who is this bloke?

95% of Australians have no idea who he is.

And, I suspect, the other 5% wish they didn't.

He is invisible to women: only 2% could name him compared with 7% of men.

The Age's Michelle Grattan writes, "An astonishing 95 per cent cannot correctly name the leader of the Nationals.

For almost all voters, Warren Truss is the man who isn't there. An Age/Nielsen poll has found that only 5 per cent of voters can correctly name the Nationals leader - a far cry from the high profile of, say, Tim Fischer, even in opposition.

Mr Truss doesn't even register in the non-metropolitan areas: only 6 per cent of those outside the capitals named him, compared with 4 per cent of capital cities voters.

Unsurprisingly, 3 per cent believed the party's flamboyant Senate leader, Barnaby Joyce, had the top job. If those who couldn't get his name exactly right were added in, the figure increases to 4 per cent.

Swinburne University politics professor Brian Costar said that ''with lots of caveats'', he thought the Nationals should make Senator Joyce leader, although there was the problem of finding him a lower house seat. ''He's the sort of leader the followers want. Some of the parliamentary party would raise their eyebrows, but many of the branch members and supporters would think it was heaven on a stick.''

Heaven on a stick! Cripes, Barnaby reminds me of something on a stick, but it's certainly not heaven!

pic credit: The Age