Barnaby Joyce’s wife Vicki Campion has banned the ABC’s 7:30 report from their rural property after accusing the ABC of speculating whether the couple’s barking dog, Stella, really existed.The rescue dog made national headlines this week after the One Nation MP shouted at the working dog on live television.But after 7:30 host Sarah Ferguson speculated over whether it was all a ruse to avoid a question, Ms Campion let rip in a lengthy Substack post. “For years, I have personally set up cameras, lights and internet connectivity to assist Sydney media to interview Barnaby, often without ever so much as a thank you,” Ms Campion said in a Substack post.“Never again. ABC 7.30 is banned from my property.”“If Barnaby wants to do it, he can do it in Sydney or Canberra, in a studio where lights and microphones and cameras are done for him, just as they are for Ferguson, where he is at least on equal footing to a host who thinks she knows more about our farm than we do.”Ms Campion, a former journalist, said it was her call and she would stand by it.“Barnaby is a big boy and can take the heat. But it is one thing for Ferguson to cast a live stream into my house, and then question whether my dog exists,’’ she said.“She might not have heard the barking, thanks to noise-cancelling audio, but I could.”Ms Campion said that a frequent comment on one of the many viral posts since her husband yelled at the dog has been “Why did Barnaby take his dog to an interview?”.“He didn’t take our dog to the interview. The interview came to her farm where she was working,’’ she said.“Against my advice, the One Nation MP for New England agreed to do an interview over Zoom with the taxpayer-funded ABC 7.30 show.“The ABC cast their line into our property and then, from their sanctimonious $1.1 billion a year palace, attacked us for it.“Sorry we aren’t a television studio; we are a working farm, and this is what it sounds like.“An ABC studio has a technician organising your audio and microphone, another technician lighting you perfectly and framing you, and yet another doing your make-up and hair.”Ms Campion said that a result of the advent of Zoom interviews background noise can now be dialled down with a click.“For nearly seven years, on a rural block with limited power and even more limited phone coverage, we have easily done thousands of interviews from our front verandah, with a series of extension cords, or on top of a hill, when we don’t need light, where we have phone signal,’’ she said.“We don’t have a budget for professional studio lighting. I’ve used everything from the headlights of a truck to light him, to big torches perched on children’s swingsets.”Ms Campion claimed some city-based ABC producers had previously asked her to turn down the sound of local fauna.“Once, a Sydney-based television producer actually asked me if I could stop the cicadas in the bush around us from chirping. Another asked if I could do anything about the crickets,’’ she said.“The media are always talking about “bridging the divide,” but as soon as they have a clear line of sight to someone on the other side of the creek, they spit on them.”