Back to Back Barries: Can Josh Frydenberg stage a comeback? – video
Tony Barry and Niki Savva (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) examine the ‘festival of Josh’ which played out in the media this week. The former Liberal party advisers give their take on whether Frydenberg should run again for Kooyong and live his dream of one day becoming prime minister
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