Channel
@BackbenchDrivers
On this record: Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Reactions · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
43subscribers
+1 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001997588527 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @BackbenchDrivers |
| Description | Australia’s newest political podcast! Find us on Spotify and Substack (NationalObserver.substack.com/podcast) |
| Created | Between 1 October 2023 and 30 April 2024 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 11 October 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| On Telegram | t.me/BackbenchDrivers |
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Oct 2026, 22:23 | 43 | no change |
| 30 Aug 2026, 01:18 | 43 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 06:48 | 42 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 23 March 2025 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 16 March 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Lifetime counters from Telegram’s own channel header, read 11 October 2026 — not the date at the top of this page, which is when the subscriber count was last read. Below Telegram’s rounding threshold, so these counts are exact.
Measured directly from 1 video with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
22 reactions across 14 posts, in 4 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 50.0% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔥 | 11 | 50.0% | |
| 👍 | 7 | 31.8% | |
| 😁 | 2 | 9.09% | |
| 🥰 | 2 | 9.09% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 14 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 22 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 23 March 2025 to 16 March 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Former One Nation QLD President Jim Savage exposes the good, the bad, and the ugly about Pauline Hanson! WATCH NOW 🍿 YouTube / Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify / Apple Podcasts
The history of One Nation Pauline Hanson doesn’t want you to know! …told by One Nation founder, David Oldfield WATCH NOW 🍿 YouTube / Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify / Apple Pods
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CHUDDING OUT with Sir Doug! We discuss his Australia Day speech and body slamming leftists (in self defence) WATCH NOW 🍿 YouTube | Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify | Apple Pods
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What the new HATESPEECH Laws mean for YOU and Australia! w/ BASED Law Professor, Drew Fraser! 🍿 WATCH NOW Substack / YouTube 🎧 LISTEN NOW Spotify / Apple Pods
🔥1
X BAN, Gun BAN, Speech BAN… John Ruddick joined me to discuss the tyrannical crackdown on our freedom and the right-wing! 🍿 WATCH NOW: Substack 🔴 PREMIERING SOON: YouTube 🎧 LISTEN NOW Apple Pods / Spotify
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We’re joined by John Lawson (@JohnLawson_TNO) on Endeavour News tonight. John is the Editor of The National Observer, Australia’s leading nationalist publication. 🔴 Live stream starts at 7pm NZST/ 5pm AET Join us. https://youtube.com/live/TY6Xk-w60P8 https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXWOQgzRKZ https://rumble.com/v731gxs-australia-and-new-zealand-2025-in-review-with-john-lawson.html
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I was joined by Aarvoll & Elias Priestly to chat intentional communities, the nationalist work ethic, and platonism! WATCH NOW 🍿 YouTube | Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify | Apple Pods
NEW EPISODE: Rage-bait king Drew Pavlou joined us to explain his ideological evolution & why he supports Andrew Hastie for PM! WATCH NOW 🍿 YouTube | Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify | Apple Pods
👍1
NEW EPISODE: Auspill hopped on the pod to recap the first March For Australia, plans for future marches, the Auspill story, labubus and much much more! WATCH NOW🍿 Youtube | Substack LISTEN NOW 🎧 Spotify | Apple Pods
🔥1
Big pod dropping tomorrow 👀 We’re back
🥰1
The main reason for the lack of pods and articles recently has been that our focus has been primarily on getting Graeme Campbell’s book completed and published. Your regularly scheduled content will be returning soon enough though!
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MASSIVE EPISODE: @GerardRennick joined us to tackle the election, immigration, multiculturalism, the deep state, foreign intel agencies and much more! 🍿WATCH NOW YouTube | Substack 🎧 LISTEN NOW Spotify | Apple Pods
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Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @BackbenchDrivers. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Republishes
Channels on the register whose posts this channel has forwarded.
Built only from forwarded posts we have actually read, on both sides. Coverage is early and deliberately incomplete: a missing link means we have not read the post that would prove it, never that the relationship does not exist. Counts are distinct forwarded posts observed, so they only ever go up as we read more.
Names
Channels on the register whose handles appear in this channel's posts.
A mention is a weaker signal than a forward and is counted separately for that reason — naming a channel is not republishing it, and a handle in a post body is easy to place deliberately. The post counts beside each row below are distinct posts in which the handle appeared, from posts we have read on both sides — the “Named by N registered channels” figure above is a different count, of distinct NAMING CHANNELS rather than posts, and is not the sum of the rows under it.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Backbench Drivers Podcast” (@BackbenchDrivers), 43 subscribers as measured 11 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/BackbenchDrivers.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.