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Back to Back Barries

Back to Back Barries examines the strategies behind the campaigns in the 2025 federal election with co-hosts Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry
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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

    Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy examine the impact of new tariffs on Australia, debate Dutton’s plan to cut public sector workers, and wonder: is it too much to ask for some big ideas?
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    Back to Back Barries: we’re off and running to a May election

    This week Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry analyse budget week and what promises to be a campaign where every advantage is sought and every mistake regretted. Also on the table, whether the second coming of Donald Trump could actually bolster the progressive vote.

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

  • Back to Back Barries: how to rescue a recession election

  • Back to Back Barries: Trump, the great disrupter

  • Introducing Back to Back Barries – a new politics podcast from Guardian Australia

Full Story

Guardian Australia's daily news podcast. Every weekday, join Guardian journalists for a deeper understanding of the news in Australia and beyond
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    Why Labor and the Coalition’s housing policies could make the crisis worse – Full Story podcast

    Nour Haydar talks with economist Saul Eslake about why he thinks Labor’s and the Coalition’s plans would drive up house prices
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    Rebecca Huntley on the threat to democracy of isolation and distrust – Full Story podcast

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    David Smith: is the US descending into authoritarianism? – Full Story podcast

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    Gina episode 3: Love and money – Full Story podcast

  • Paramedics transport out of an ambulance some of the bodies of Palestinian first responders, who were killed in Israeli military fire on ambulances, into Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 30 March 2025

    How phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics – Full Story podcast

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    Newsroom edition: the climate crisis has disappeared from the election agenda – Full Story podcast

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Australian Politics

Guardian Australia's political team examine what’s happening in Australian politics and why it matters to you
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    ​Guardian Essential report:​ as Labor pulls further ahead, can Dutton outmanoeuvre Albanese? – Australian Politics podcast

  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese (right) speaks to opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Guardian Essential report: power v poise – Australian Politics podcast

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    Guardian Essential report: as ​Albanese’s approval rating rises, why do the lads stand out? – Australian Politics podcast

  • Peter Dutton during a Liberal party campaign rally and prime minister Anthony Albanese during a press conference

    Guardian Essential report: how do the major parties plan to win your vote? – Australian Politics podcast

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More Australian podcasts

  • Two fingers point at black text that says Who screwed millennials?

    Introducing: Who screwed millennials? – podcast

    Full Story co-host Jane Lee and reporter Matilda Boseley investigate the mystery of who screwed young Australians out of affordable housing, education and secure work
  • Climate art for the weight of the world series on climate science in Australia

    Revisited: Weight of the world, the climate scientists who hold out hope – podcast

  • Climate art for the weight of the world series on climate science in Australia

    Episode one of a new podcast: Weight of the world – the climate scientists who saw the crisis coming

  • Rachel Franks on colonial Australia’s noseless hangman

  • Ben Roberts-Smith v the media: episode one of a new podcast

  • Ben Roberts-Smith v the media part two: death in Darwan

  • Part 1: Kyoto

  • Why have Australian honeybees been put into lockdown?

  • Why is synaesthesia suddenly going viral? Plus: the poetry of the second mention

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Across the Guardian

  • RFK Jr. Fluoride<br>Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. looks on during a press conference about Utah's new fluoride ban, food additives and SNAP funds legislation, Monday, April 7, 2025, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Melissa Majchrzak)

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    RFK Jr’s mixed messages on vaccines - podcast

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    Politics Weekly UK
    What’s next for British Steel? – Politics Weekly UK

    The future of the steelworks in Scunthorpe has been hanging in the balance. So what happens next? And why does it matter for our national security? Kiran Stacey speaks to Charlotte Brumpton-Childs, a national officer for the GMB union in Scunthorpe, and the Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea
  • A woman walking through the Christmas wholesale market in Yiwu

    Today in Focus
    Trump’s trade war: the view from China – podcast

    As the Washington-Beijing trade war grows deeper, who will blink first? Amy Hawkins reports

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    Aston Villa fall short of heroic comeback against PSG – Football Weekly

  • Today in Focus
    Trump’s deportation ‘mistake’: the man trapped in a prison in El Salvador

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    What 40 years as Observer science editor has taught Robin McKie – podcast

  • The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The great betrayal: how the Hillsborough families were failed by the justice system – podcast

  • Today in Focus
    The scramble to save British Steel – podcast

  • Football Weekly
    Manchester United thrashed as race for Champions League heats up – Football Weekly

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    My mother, the racist – podcast

  • Today in Focus
    Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories matter in the age of Trump – podcast