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This week Nyah, Freddie and Declan spend three-quarters of an hour talking about the complications and lead up to the current criticism of Australia's immigration law and overturning of Indefinite Immigration Detention. Bridie joined us for the second hour with the latest in international and ICC responses to the ongoing conflict in Palestine, and we talk about the AI image "All Eyes on Rafah" circulating social media. Declan brings the news this week live in the studio.

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A few weeks ago Nyah, Bridie and Freddie chatted to Shorna Moore, a social justice lawyer and advocate at the Melbourne City Mission, about the Home Time Campaign, which aims to fix the housing system in Australia for young people.

Nearly 40 thousand young people between the ages of 15 and 24 do not have somewhere to live each night, and the Home Time campaign is proposing all levels of government take action on developing youth tenancies, youth independence transitional services and addressing the rental gap in the current housing crisis.

For more information and to sign onto the campaign you can visit www.hometime.org.au.

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Kaspar caught up with the University of Melbourne’s Student Union International President Richard Ha to talk about the Federal Budget’s announcement regarding University quotas for international students, the housing crisis, and student life for international students.

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Freddie and Kaspar take over Represent this week while Bridie and Nyah get cultural at Opera Australia’s Tosca which they give an overview of at the end of the show (SPOILER ALERT!). 

In political news, two elections to talk about on the show today: Rishi Sunak has called a general election for July 4 this year, and your latest update on the USA election in November.

And Kaspar brings us the latest on the University of Melbourne’s agreement to disclose its partnerships with weapons manufacturers after campus encampments and students occupying the Arts West Building.

This week, we also have two interviews!

Kaspar caught up with the University of Melbourne’s Student Union International President Richard Ha to talk about the Federal Budget’s announcement regarding University quotas for international students, the housing crisis, and student life for international students. 

And a few weeks ago Nyah, Bridie and Freddie chatted to Shorna Moore, social justice lawyer and advocate at the Melbourne City Mission, about the Home Time Campaign, which aims to fix the housing system in Australia for young people. For more information you can visit www.hometime.org.au.

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This week on the show is Nyah, Bridie, Freddie and Declan.

The team talk state budget (and lament the delay of the airport rail), Nyah talks about her first budget lockup experience, Freddie explains the money pledged by the federal government to help students after the high indexation of HECS last financial year, and Bridie brings us the latest on university encampments following developments in Palestine. 

Declan brings you this week's news live in the studio.

Next week is the Federal Budget! Bridie, Freddie and Nyah will be broadcasting from Canberra! Listen in to hear all about the federal lockup and budget.

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Welcome back to Represent for season 2 of 2024! Have you missed us?

On the show today we have Nyah, Bridie, Freddie and Kaspar bringing you the latest in politics.

We talk about regulations around graphic content on X (Twitter), the rejection of a second Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne, the appointment of Ellen Sandell as the new leader of the Victorian Greens, and a segment [disclaimer, we ran overtime and the end of this discussion is cut short] about political gifts, what the rules are and some fun examples.

Declan brings us the news remotely this week.

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After a busy four days in Canberra, the team is back to give you their full rundown of Canberra, the budget lockup and the federal budget.

Nyah, Bridie and Freddie give Kaspar their one-word assessments of the whole experience and provide you with further detail from their Tuesday Night Rundown.

Tune in next week to hear our thoughts on Peter Dutton's reply speech, and to return to some of our usual Represent content. 

Thank you for listening to our week of Budget content!

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Welcome to Represent's 2024/25 federal budget coverage with a special interview with Dr Carina Garland.

Recorded in Parliament House and broadcast Tuesday night.

Listen in on Thursday to our full rundown. 4-6pm 90.7FM.

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Nyah, Bridie and Freddie are in Canberra for the federal budget lockup. 

On the way, we visited Carina Garland to talk about the budget and what the new HECS debt changes will mean for students.

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We're back with another episode of Represent in which Bridie, Nyah, Freddie and Declan talk extensively about films as usual, before getting to our serious political content.

The Tasmanian Election results remain up in the air, but they do have a football team on the way - the team at Represent are very excited about the stickers. We have a big update from the royal family which sparks discussion about trustworthiness and autonomy vs expectations put on the royals, and Meta is back in the news following the end of news outlet agreements.

Hourly news brought to you by Declan.

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