{
  "id": 999228,
  "title": "Back to Back Barries: what ‘melon-gate’ really reveals about our politics and the media – podcast",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/back-to-back-barries-what-melon-gate-really-reveals-about-our",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-14T15:00:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian Australia",
    "slug": "the-guardian-australia",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2026/aug/15/back-to-back-barries-what-melon-gate-really-reveals-about-our-politics-and-the-media-podcast"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry look at Liberal senator Andrew Bragg’s speech this week in which he outlined his plan to solve the housing crisis – a plan that doesn’t have the support of his own party. The Barries also discuss the ‘melon-gate’ controversy, with Tony asking if a conservative politician would be subjected to more or less outrage if they had done the same thing. Also in this episode,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}