Backchat returns for our first show of 2018 with the freshest wrap of news and current affairs.

This week, hosts Osman Faruqi and Ariel Bogle discuss the parliamentary turmoil following the resignation of Nationals' leader Barnaby Joyce. Next, we look at the rise of teen activism in America following the Florida school shootings. How effective has the youth crusade for gun control been so far?

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