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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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On today's show, we'll hear about a newly discovered ant with an interesting name. We'll kick-flip and grind with a super skateboarder, and fossick for fossils with a prolific palaeontologist. Then, we'll hear about an Indigenous Australian artist winning big in the art world, before heading to a deserted island for the… Wow of the week! Quiz Quest…
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When should uni protests be shut down?
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At Columbia University in the heart of New York City late one evening this week riot police stormed a university hall. They entered via a window to arrest students who’d for weeks been camping out at the campus to protest against the war in Gaza. Now, the pro-Palestinian movement that’s seen more than a thousand students arrested across the US has …
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Most Australians had never flown it and now they may never get a chance. Bonza has followed so many other airlines and gone into administration, meaning yet again less competition in our aviation market. Today, the rise and rapid fall of the budget carrier and whether we will one day get a third major airline to drive down airfares across the count…
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Join Ruby and the ABC's national technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre for a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence.Av Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Could there be three rate hikes this year?
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Inflation pressures were meant to be coming off a bit more by now, but a higher than expected reading has one prominent economist suggesting interest rates could go up three times this year. So, why is inflation so sticky? And will the Reserve Bank feel compelled to lift rates to further dampen economic activity? Today, chief business correspondent…
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The violence against women ‘tipping point’
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At big rallies on the weekend women and men came together to say enough is enough, that violence against women must end. Today, the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas on what needs to happen to address one of the nation’s most entrenched problems. Featured: Patricia Karvelas, host of RN Breakfast, Q+A and the Party Room podcast…
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In Australia, an increasing number of children are missing school and part of the problem is what has been called school avoidance or refusal. But families who are struggling say it’s more accurately called ‘school can’t’ because some students experience a stress response that prevents them from getting to the classroom. Today, Four Corners’ filmma…
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Underwater mountain and senior swimmers
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On today’s show, we’ll hear about some Paralympians speaking out about footwear. We’ll explore an underwater mountain and meet some of its fishy inhabitants. Then, staying in the water, we’ll splash about with some senior swimmers taking lessons for the first time.After that, it’s all eyes on the skies as we search for exploding stars, before we he…
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After the Bondi attack, like so many other women, journalist Louise Milligan found the horror of it hard to comprehend. Since then and with the death of yet another young woman allegedly at the hands of a former partner this week, discussion about violence against women in Australia has been reignited. Today, observations from years of reporting on…
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It must feel like a never-ending battle for Rupert Murdoch. His British newspaper group is continuing to face legal action more than a decade after the phone hacking scandal came to a head. Now he’s settled with the actor Hugh Grant who was accusing the Sun newspaper of everything from bugging his car to robbing his home to get stories. Today, ABC …
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Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ fight with Australia
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Australian political leaders are united in their condemnation of Elon Musk. He’s been described as an arrogant billionaire and a cowboy with no social conscience. Now, Musk is ready for a legal fight over demands he remove videos of last week’s Sydney church stabbing from his social media platform X. He says the concepts of free speech and censorsh…
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The pricing trap doubling some power bills
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Imagine opening your next electricity bill and it’s double what it usually is. More Australians are finding themselves in a position where their power bills are rising, not because they’ve changed how much electricity they use, but because they’ve been unwittingly switched to a time of use tariff. It means they pay more if they use power at peak ti…
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