Back to Back Barries
Hosted by Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly and Tony Barry · The Guardian
- 68
- Episodes
- 7
- Transcribed
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About 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.
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 21 Feb 2025
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
7 of 68 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Back to Back Barries: Why Josh Frydenberg isn’t the Liberals’ saviour
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Back to Back Barries: How Labor should fight One Nation
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Back to Back Barries: Can the Greens beat Labor?
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Back to Back Barries: Why Josh Frydenberg isn’t the Liberals’ saviour
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yep, that's correct. And 10 points below what it was when they lost the election in 2025. So how you recover that much ground, I think... is a very difficult question for the Liberal Party, and I don't think they've got the answers for it. Yeah. I think Josh is obviously a prodigious talent, and like all senior political figures, he has strengths and weaknesses. They all do, the best of them. The really best have far more strengths than weaknesses, or they work out what their weaknesses are, and they address them. And... Josh's strengths has always been the external politics, in my view. He's got a big policy brain. […]
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Barrie Cassidy and Sean Kelly and Tony Barry host the show. Published by The Guardian.
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