Podscud - Back to Back Barries

Back to Back Barries examines the strategies behind the week's politics with co-hosts Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry. Barrie Cassidy has covered 14 federal elections as a political journalist, and two from the inside as a senior press secretary to then prime minister Bob Hawke. He is also the former host of ABC TV’s political discussion program Insiders. Tony Barry is a former Liberal party strategist who has worked for Christopher Pyne and Malcolm Turnbull. He now runs political research company RedBridge Group and is also a regular media commentator. Back to Back Barries will be with you every Saturday. You can find the podcast on the Full Story podcast feed, subscribe for free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

Back to Back Barries

Back to Back Barries: Is inflation driving Chalmers and Albanese apart?

Do leaders lack the courage to turn the temperature down?

Back to Back Barries: Why Josh Frydenberg isn’t the Liberals’ saviour

Back to Back Barries: How Labor should fight One Nation

Back to Back Barries: Can the Greens beat Labor?

Back to Back Barries: Should the media boycott One Nation?

Back to Back Barries: Labor’s migration dilemma

Back to Back Barries: Andrew Hastie v Pauline Hanson

Back to Back Barries: The forces that can stop One Nation’s rise

Back to Back Barries: How is One Nation influencing Labor’s migration policy?

Back to Back Barries: Political stitch-up or compromise? A tale of two political deals

Back to Back Barries: what ‘melon-gate’ really reveals about our politics and the media

Back to Back Barries: why Labor is split on migration

Back to Back Barries: the fallout from a Victorian coup

Back to Back Barries: Barnaby bends the media cycle

Back to Back Barries: will Tommy Robinson sink Pauline Hanson?

Back to Back Barries: The worst political gaffe of the week

Back to Back Barries: The Liberal party needs more than a rebrand

Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s multiculturalism mess

Back to Back Barries: Is the media giving Pauline Hanson a free pass?

Back to Back Barries: Who is donating to One Nation?

Back to Back Barries: Does One Nation have a ceiling or a wall?

Back to Back Barries: Is Labor in trouble over tax?

Back to Back Barries live: How long will Angus Taylor survive as Liberal leader?

Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s migration muddle

Back to back Barries: One Nation’s Trump-sized achilles heel

Back to Back Barries: Focus on Farrer

Back to Back Barries: Can Labor’s 'tough decisions' save the NDIS?

Back to Back Barries: the Coalition’s ‘risky’ immigration plan

Back to Back Barries: Cutting through Trump’s ‘wall of noise’