Stay political! Join the team for a breakdown of the week that was in politics. Covering the local, state, federal, and international politics you actually care about, we'll help you wrap your head around what's happening so you can go about your day a little more informed. Represent is a SYN Media Podcast.
Latest episodes
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45 min
Military firing squad execution barely enough to give Americans pause | International
Former US public policy advisor and combat veteran Christopher Rivers is uniquely qualified to give his take on the rhetoric (or lack thereof) around the death penalty shemozzle an…
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48 min
Helen Haines hospitalised | National
This week on Represent National, Benita, Fatima and Nayan look at the alleged attack on independent MP for Indi outside her electorate office in Wangaratta. The team discusses call…
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47 min
Rifle-wielding cops on Sydney streets?! | National
This week on Represent National, the whole team is back in the studio as Ashley walks us through the federal government's backflip on banning credit card payments to the tax office…
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44 min
Classics, Colonisation and Christopher Nolan | International
People have been adapting The Odyssey longer than they've been writing it down. To talk to us about the hold this story seems to have on us and its place in Western colonisation we…
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49 min
Pre-COP31 debrief with Gerard Anapu | International
Pre-COP31 wrapped up in Fiji today and Gerard Anapu joined us fresh off his flight from Nadi to give us the low down on how things went down. To celebrate the first Represent Inter…
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Who's this new Greens leader, and how does Victorian election voting work? | National
This week on Represent National, Zoe and Ashley hold down on the fort while Nayan is trapped in a lift. Ashley takes us through who the federal Greens' new leader David Shoebridge…
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Maribyrnong Mayor interview part 2, Medicare data hacked by OpenAI | National
This week on Represent National, we bring you the second half of our interview with Mohamed Semra, the 27-year-old Mayor of Maribyrnong City Council in Melbourne's inner west. In p…
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48 min
The call is coming from inside the flydubai cockpit | International
One of the pilots of a flydubai plane bound for Tel Aviv incapacitated his co-pilot and attempted to crash the plane carrying more than 170 passengers as it crossed into Israeli te…
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Mayor Mohamed Semra joins Represent National!
This episode of Represent National is a big one! History-making City of Maribyrnong Mayor Mohamed Semra joins the team for part one of an interview about leadership, local governme…
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Will BRICS brick the G7 over the head? | Represent International
The 18th BRICS summit was held in New Delhi, India and again has raised questions about the balance of geopolitical powers. Is BRICS the G7 of the Global South? Is it just an sympt…
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42 min
German far right party wants to stop teaching WW2, I wonder why... | Represent International
Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative for Germany) has won a landslide election in the Saxony-Anhalt state election coming just short of forming government. If they do manage to for…
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45 min
'Anti-boy' ideology?! Giant power poles in the West?!
This week on Represent National, Ashley, Benita and Zoe talk about the Liberal and National Parties' leaders comments about 'anti-boy' ideology being taught in schools (???) and Re…
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Kongen er død! Long live the King! | Represent International
No way, Norway has royal family? And the king is dead? And his family's kind of weird? And the monarchy is desperately trying maintain relevance in the modern world? Oh, so a tale…
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47 min
Pamela Anderson on Represent National!
This week on Represent National, Ashley, Benita and Zoe sat down with Pamela Anderson, the CEO of EMILYs List Australia, to talk about women in politics, reproductive rights, the L…
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Oh Canada! | Represent International
Notoriously polite Canada has said "no more Mr Nice Guy" by firing back at the US with retaliatory tariffs in a heated trade war. Should Ukraine hold a wartime presidential electio…
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44 min
Free dental clinics in Victoria?!
Is it too good to be true?! In this week's Represent National show, Ashley, Benita and Nayan take a look at the Victorian Government's election promise to create 10 free dental cli…
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Can Eurovision's war ban achieve world peace? | Represent International
Eurovision won't let winning countries involved in active armed conflict host the competition in another move from the famously political singing competition that is strictly apoli…
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43 min
Is One Nation really the “gayest” party? Should we ditch the monarchy? Will food delivery drivers receive fair…
This week on Represent National, we're tackling some big questions, starting with whether we should abandon the British monarchy and become a republic or not. Australia voted again…
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36 min
Former Syrian President sips cocktails in Moscow as he's sentenced to death back home | Represent Internationa…
The former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, has been sentenced to death in absentia while he reportedly lives a life of luxury in Russia. While al-Assad is living it up in Mosc…
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The high schooler running in the Victorian election, changes to Victorian voting laws, and the National Census
In this episode of Represent National, Benita, Nayan and Zoe take a look at new questions in the National Census, including questions surveying LGBTQIA+ people. The team also discu…