Backbench Drivers

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A weekly podcast about all things Australian politics

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The podcast currently has 72 episodes available.

Backbench Drivers episodes:

November 16, 2025 America's Whites-Only City & Its Philosophical Foundations!
This week John Lawson was joined by the Australian Natives Association’s own Elias Priestly and the founder of Return To The Land, Eric Orwall, to discuss intentional communities, the plague of nationalist laziness, the foundations of Western philosophy and much more!
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LINKS
📲 Follow Aarvoll on X🌲 Learn more about Return to the Land
📲 Follow Elias Priestly on X🇦🇺 Learn more about the Australian Natives Association
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1h 14min
September 28, 2025 Drew Pavlou's ideological EVOLUTION & the Hastie Question
Drew Pavlou joined us this week to discuss his ideological progression from avowed left-wing socialist to classical liberal and now a National Conservative with Lee Kuan Yew characteristics.
LINKS
Find more of Drew’s content on:📹 Youtube📲 X📷 Instagram
🤳 Follow Matthew on Telegram
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1h 17min
September 09, 2025 AURAFARMING with AUSPILL
Hugo Lennon, aka Auspill, joined us this week on the pod to recap the successes of the first March for Australia, plans for future marches, the Auspill story, labubus and much much more!
LINKS
💊 Find all of Auspill’s social media links at Auspill.com
📲 Follow John Lawson on X📷 Follow John Lawson on Instagram🤳 Follow John Lawson on Telegram
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1h 1min
July 21, 2025 Gerard Rennick VS The Deep State
This week Matthew and John were joined by former Senator and People First Party founder Gerard Rennick to discuss the 2025 election, immigration, multiculturalism, the intelligence agencies and false flags!
LINKS
📲 Follow Gerard Rennick on X📷 Follow Gerard Rennick on Instagram🔵 Follow Gerard Rennick on Facebook👤 Check out the People First Party
📲 Follow John Lawson on X📷 Follow John Lawson on Instagram🤳 Follow John Lawson on Telegram
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56min
July 06, 2025 LAST KING OF QUEENSLAND REVIEW: The life and lessons of Joh Bjelke Peterson
Matthew and John gave their scorching hot takes on the brand new Stan documentary covering the life and controversies of Premier Joh Bjelke Peterson, last king of Queensland.
We also examined the myriad political lessons to be gleaned from his life, where Joh was right and where Joh went wrong.
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📲 Follow John Lawson on X📷 Follow John Lawson on Instagram🤳 Follow John Lawson on Telegram
🤳 Follow Matthew on Telegram
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48min
May 31, 2025 END OF THE CENTRE-RIGHT w/former Family First candidate Malachi
Malachi Brogden Hearne joined John to discuss the Liberal-National split and remarriage, the collapse of the centre-right at the 2025 election and the complete reputational destruction of One Nation and Family First!
LINKS
✍🏻 Follow Malachi Brogden Hearne on Substack:
🍿 Follow Malachi on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MalachiAUS📲 Follow Malachi on X: https://x.com/MalachiAUS
📲 Follow John on X: https://x.com/JohnLawson_TNO📷 Follow John on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnlawson_tno/🤳 Follow John on Telegram: https://t.me/JohnLawson_TNO
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1h 9min
April 30, 2025 CRASHING the UNI-PARTY with Rob McMullen!
This week the Trumpet of Patriot’s nationalist candidate from Queensland joined Matthew to give the case for voting ToP and an analysis of the impending federal election!
LINKS
📲 Follow Rob on X🦢 Check out Rob's work at The Natural Law Institute✍🏻 Follow Natural Law Institute on Substack
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58min
April 25, 2025 Dutton's Electoral DISASTER w/ Barclay McGain
This week John and Matthew were joined by Liberal Party exile and conservative operator Barclay McGain to discuss Dutton’s electoral prospects and missed opportunities as well as the Trump tariff debacle!
LINKS
🔵 Follow Barclay on Facebook
📲 Follow John Macgowan on X
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1h 17min
April 15, 2025 Was South Africa's decline inevitable? w/ Prof. Eric Louw
This week we were joined by Professor Eric Louw to hear his first-hand account of South Africa’s decline, the ideological movements at the root of it, the Afrikaners trying to rebuild civilisation and whether we should replicate this in Australia!
LINKS
📚 Purchase Professor Louw’s books on Amazon🍿 Watch Professor Louw’s interviews with the British Australian Community
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58min
April 07, 2025 ELECTION PREDICTION: 2025
Former Liberal Party operator John MacGowan weighs in on the upcoming Federal Election, will Albo get a second term? Will Dutton scrape in by the skin of his teeth? Should we even care?
All this and more answered on our latest episode!
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1h 3min

FAQs about Backbench Drivers:

How many episodes does Backbench Drivers have?

The podcast currently has 72 episodes available.