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ABC News Daily is the podcast that helps you understand the issues affecting your world. Every episode, host Samantha Hawley walks through one story with the help of an ABC colleague or expert in under 15 minutes. When you want coverage you can trust, listen to ABC News Daily. Key topics of recent episodes include the Donald Trump administration, anti-Semitism in Australia, TikTok’s future, artificial intelligence, Israel-Hamas war and ceasefire, Australian dollar, bushfires, the Australians ...
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Every Friday, join Ruby for News Time as she counts down the week’s most interesting news stories for kids. From amazing animals to special events, the natural world to outer space, News Time is made especially for children to help them understand the world around them.
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Emily’s son loved sport, animals, reading and music, but when he turned 16, everything changed. He started to get obsessed by politics and thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. It wasn’t until his mother saw a photo of her son on the news that she realised he’d joined a neo-Nazi group. Emily hopes a deradicalisation program will ke…
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Jack Evans is filling in for Ruby this week, and he's brought some awesome stories with him. We’ll meet some footy obsessed kids, follow some clever bees and uncover an ancient mystery. Quiz Questions 1.In which town has the local library been rebuilt? 2.Why were the scientists able to safely take the parrot egg? 3.What was the writing on the scrol…
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Donald Trump says negotiations to end the war in Ukraine have begun and both Russia and Ukraine want peace. The US president chose to call the instigator of the war Vladimir Putin first to discuss a potential deal, raising fears he’ll push Ukraine to the sidelines. The US is already insisting that Ukraine can’t restore its territory to what it had …
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Two nurses from a Sydney hospital have been stood down while police and the health department investigate them for making threatening comments about Israelis. One says they’ll refuse to treat Israeli patients and the other even claims he’s killed Israeli patients. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park said the comments made by the pair were "vile, dehumani…
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Donald Trump says no nation will be exempt, although there’s a prospect of Australia winning a rare reprieve from hefty tariffs being imposed on all steel and aluminium imports to the United States. Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been on a phone call with the US president, urging him to exempt Australia from the 25 per cent import …
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Elon Musk thinks the peak US foreign aid agency is ‘evil’ and so in his powerful position as Donald Trump’s cost cutter he’s getting rid of it. USAID was set up by President John F. Kennedy and supports humanitarian projects across the globe. Already there are reports of people dying on the Thai-Myanmar border when a US supported hospital in a refu…
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BMI, or body mass index, has long been used as a simple calculation to determine if someone is underweight, a ‘healthy’ weight or obese. But when it was devised by a Belgian mathematician almost 200 years ago, it was never supposed to be a tool to measure health. Now, researchers are challenging the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. Today, a lo…
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On News Time today, I've got five fantastic stories — possible life on far-flung planets, first-day jitters, community-wide cup cooperation and a funky fossil, too. Quiz Questions 1.Do you have any tips to help kids who might be feeling nervous? 2.What are some cafes in Bermagui working together to do? 3.What's the name of the asteroid the dust cam…
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The police bodycam vision has been beamed around the world after being played in a London court. It shows Sam Kerr calling a police constable ‘f***ing stupid and white.’ Now the Matildas captain is on trial over allegations she racially harassed him. Today, host of The Sports Ambassador podcast Tracey Holmes walks us through the case. Featured: Tra…
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Donald Trump wants America to take over Gaza and for all Palestinians to leave so it can be turned into a “Riviera of the Middle East.” The idea, unleashed in a joint press conference with the Israeli Prime Minister at the White House, is a complete upending of decades of Middle Eastern policy that could involve American troops on the ground. Today…
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Donald Trump says he loves tariffs but just hours after he slapped massive levies on Mexico and Canada he’s taken them away. The surprising U-turn has rattled financial markets and revived fears of a global trade war. So, what on earth is the US President up to and how will the global economy respond? Today ABC TV’s finance expert Alan Kohler on wh…
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