Our Presenters

  • Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. As presenter of Late Night Live, he has interviewed thousands of the world's most influential figures.

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  • Richard Aedy grew up in Sydney and Canberra. He began his journalistic career in 1988 in New Zealand. He's worked as reporter, producer, executive producer and presenter in three countries, including four years at the BBC in London.

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  • Waleed Aly is a Walkley Award-winning journalist, broadcaster, author, academic, rock musician and former AFL mascot. One of the hosts of Network Ten’s The Project, Waleed is well-known to RN audiences as the former host of RN Drive.

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  • Ed Ayres is a writer, music teacher and broadcaster. He was born on the White Cliffs of Dover and began playing violin when he was eight years old. He studied music in Manchester, Berlin and London, played professionally in the UK and Hong Kong and moved to Australia in 2003. Ed was the presenter of ABC Classic FM’s breakfast program for many years.

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  • Paul Barclay is a Walkley Award winning journalist and broadcaster with an appetite for ideas and in-depth analysis and discussion.

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  • Amanda Bauer is an astronomer and science communicator.

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  • Michael Brissenden is one of the ABC’s most experienced journalists. He has been a political journalist and foreign correspondent for the ABC since 1987. He began his career covering Federal politics and has been a correspondent in Moscow, Brussels and Washington.

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  • ABC investigative reporter and former Europe correspondent.

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  • Daniel first joined the Awaye! team on a short-term basis in 1997 and has produced and presented the program since 2005. A former news director at Triple J, he has worked for the ABC since 1994.

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  • Specialising in national and international politics, especially the Middle East, James has reported for RN Breakfast, produced Media Watch, and written for The Sydney Morning Herald. He now presents the RN's God Forbid.

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