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Back to Back Barries — 69 episodes

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Do leaders lack the courage to turn the temperature down?

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

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Back to Back Barries: How Labor should fight One Nation

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Back to Back Barries: Can the Greens beat Labor?

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

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Back to Back Barries: Labor’s migration dilemma

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Back to Back Barries: Andrew Hastie v Pauline Hanson

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

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

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

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

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Back to Back Barries: why Labor is split on migration

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Back to Back Barries: the fallout from a Victorian coup

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Back to Back Barries: Barnaby bends the media cycle

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

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

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

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Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s multiculturalism mess

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

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

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

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

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

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Back to Back Barries: Angus Taylor’s migration muddle

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

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Back to Back Barries: Focus on Farrer

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

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

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

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Back to Back Barries: How the fuel crisis could hurt Albanese

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Back to Back Barries: Will the war on Iran war trigger another recession we have to have?

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Back to Back Barries: Does Matt Canavan have a strategy to take on One Nation?

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Back to Back Barries: will Trump’s Iran war become Albanese’s mess?

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Back to Back Barries: the politics of no sympathy for ‘IS families’

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Back to Back Barries: the Liberals’ looming election test

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Back to Back Barries: is Angus Taylor enough to stop One Nation?

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Back to Back Barries and Niki Savva on a seismic year in politics

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Back to Back Barries: why gen z and millennials will decide the Coalition’s fate

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Back to Back Barries: Palestine, Hastie and the rise of influencers

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Back to Back Barries: Trump, climate targets and a turn to One Nation

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Back to Back Barries: does the Coalition have the will to win?

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Back to Back Barries: divisive debates and Dan Andrews

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Back to Back Barries: can the Coalition find a circuit breaker?

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Back to Back Barries: roundtable reforms, and diplomatic rows

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Back to Back Barries: the tricky politics of a treasurer-PM relationship

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Back to Back Barries: is Trump the new Xi Jinping?

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Back to Back Barries: does Albanese care more about polls or Palestine?

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Back to Back Barries: is the Liberal-National Coalition a ‘sham marriage’?

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Back to Back Barries: Does Albanese need to choose China over Trump?

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Back to Back Barries: could the antisemitism plan be used to silence dissent?

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Back to Back Barries: do Labor voters have buyer’s remorse?

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Back to Back Barries: could Albanese be the next Hawke or Howard?

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Back to Back Barries: Albanese and the world waits on Trump

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Back to Back Barries: Albanese prepares to face ‘toxic’ Trump

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Back to Back Barries: Albanese’s pressure points

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Back to Back Barries: can the Coalition kiss and make up?

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Back to Back Barries Live: Does Anthony Albanese have the guts for big reform?

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Back to Back Barries: the brutal aftermath of a shock election result

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Back to Back Barries: is the Liberal party a ‘broken institution’?

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Back to Back Barries: final election night predictions

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Back to Back Barries: Could soft voters prove the polls wrong?

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Back to Back Barries: is it all over for the Coalition?

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Back to back Barries: can Dutton save his campaign?

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Back to Back Barries: Trump tariffs wreak havoc on week one

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Back to Back Barries: we’re off and running to a May election

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Back to Back Barries: Can Dutton regain discipline and confidence?

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Back to Back Barries: how to rescue a recession election

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Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter

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Introducing Back to Back Barries - a new politics podcast from Guardian Australia