The History Listen is now ABC Rewind, the home of gripping narrative history series. Dive into true stories told by the people who lived through them.
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All In The Mind is ABC RN's weekly podcast looking into the mental universe, the mind, brain and behaviour — everything from addiction to artificial intelligence.
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A critical look at new technologies, new approaches and new ways of thinking, from politics to media to environmental sustainability.
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Your daily AFL conversation with Corbin Middlemas, Ben Cameron and Poppy Penny.
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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
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The simplest questions often have the most complex answers. The Philosopher's Zone is your guide through the strange thickets of logic, metaphysics and ethics.
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Move beyond the headlines to see how the past defines our world.
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The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature - especially the ones that make you go What the Duck?!
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Soul Search explores contemporary religion and spirituality from the inside out — what we believe, how we express it, and the difference it makes in our lives
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The ABC's team of specialist reporters introduce you to the people and places that make up country Australia.
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What are you reading, loving or being challenged by? We review the latest in fiction for dedicated readers and for those who wish they read more.
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ABC SPORT DAILY is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that’s making headlines.
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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
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Expect engaging discussions with real people and inspiring stories connecting communities across Victoria, on The Conversation Hour with Richelle Hunt and Jonathon Kendall.
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The bit players, the unexpected twists, the turning point you missed. Join Walkley award-winner Marc Fennell as he uncovers the incredible moments that changed the course of history. New episodes out Tuesday.
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Feed your mind. Be provoked. One big idea at a time. Your brain will love you for it. Grab your front row seat to the best live forums and festivals with Natasha Mitchell.
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Ian McNamara shares Sunday morning with the whole of Australia - catch up anytime with the Australia All Over podcast
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Politics, arts and culture from a range of Indigenous perspectives.
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Cricket news and interviews from the ABC Grandstand Team.
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Looking forward to the end of the week? TGIF! — Thank God It's Friday! — is an award-worthy weekly radio comedy show with Charlie Pickering and friends!
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Background Briefing tells true stories not everyone will want you to hear. We infuse investigative reporting with captivating drama, following the thread of an individual story only to find that it leads us to something bigger. It's the only podcast in Australia that does this week in, week out. Hosted by Thomas Oriti. We want to hear from you too. If you have a tip-off, please contact us at backgroundbriefing[at]abc.net.au
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In a world marked by wicked social problems, The Minefield helps you negotiate the ethical dilemmas, contradictory claims and unacknowledged complicities of modern life.
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Incisive analysis, fearless debates and nightly surprises. Explore the serious, the strange and the profound with David Marr.
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Download This Show is your weekly guide to the world of media, culture, and technology. From social media to gadgets, streaming services to privacy issues. Each week Rae Johnston and guests take a fun, deep dive into how technology is reshaping our lives.
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From courtroom dramas to miscarriages of justice, to how the law affects you — and so much more. The Law Report is your accessible guide to the big legal stories unfolding in Australia and across the world.
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Formerly The Money, The Economy, Stupid is your weekly guide to the world of business, economics and finance. Every Thursday, economist Peter Martin is joined by a team of sharp young thinkers for a fresh conversation about the financial stories making headlines and how they might affect you.
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Each Friday, Airlie Ward chats with Tasmania's top journos to unpack one of the big stories of the week. If it's going to hit your heart, head or your hip pocket – we're going to break it down for you.
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Nightlife with Phil Clark and Suzanne Hill has everything you need to get you through the night, seven nights a week.
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Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.
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Science Friction's latest series is: Brain Rot. We're looking at what being chronically online is doing to our brains. What's really going on with our attention spans and tech addiction? Is data-dumping your entire life into ChatGPT helpful? Can going internet free help you escape the doomscroll? And what's it like to be in love ... with an AI? National technology reporter Ange Lavoipierre tackles the wildest ways people are using tech and the big questions about our own use. That's Brain Ro ...
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Ladies, We Need to Talk goes deep on the women's health and relationship issues that are setting your group chat on fire. Come hang with the fabulous Yumi Stynes as she takes a candid, non-judgmental and often hilarious look at the deeply personal stuff that's hard to bring up, even with your closest mates. You'll meet incredible experts to help you improve your wellness, manage the mental load; survive break-ups and prioritise your mental health. With sensitivity, personal stories from real ...
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Your favourite fiction authors share the story behind their latest books.
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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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Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.
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ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.
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The Science Show gives Australians unique insights into the latest scientific research and debate, from the physics of cricket to prime ministerial biorhythms.
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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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Sunday Extra presents a lively mix of national and international affairs, analysis and investigation, as well as a lighter touch.
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Emeritus Professor Roly Sussex from the University of Queensland discusses the wonderful and odd aspects of English and many other languages.
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Hilarious gardening expert Sabrina Hahn answers all your gardening questions big and small. Roots and Shoots is the gardening program for green thumbs and non-gardeners. Join the program live on ABC Radio Perth twice a week.
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Conversations draws you deeper into the life story of someone you may have heard about, but never met. Journey into their world, joining them on epic adventures to unfamiliar places, back in time to wild moments of history, and into their deepest memories, to be moved by personal stories of resilience and redemption. Hosted by Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski, Conversations is the ABC's most popular long-form interview program. Every day we explore the vast tapestry of human experience, wea ...
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Professor Richard Eccleston discusses the results of the weekend's Tasmanian election. We take a deep dive into the science behind a $8 million dollar meteorite from Mars with astrogeologist Professor Gretchen Benedix. At the Melbourne Film Festival we meet the director and one of the subjects of a surprisingly enthralling documentary Spreadsheet C…
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Actor Yael Stone had finally secured a Green Card - that ticket to the American dream that gives outsiders the legal right to live and work in the United States. Something coveted and potentially life-transforming it’s literally the prize in an annual lottery. So not many people give up something like that, and especially if that card has allowed y…
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The ethical considerations of killing mosquitos
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Malaria killed an estimated 600,000 people globally in 2023 and 94% of those deaths were in Africa. Advances in genome editing means that it may now be possible to eradicate the malaria carrying mosquito. Paul Ndebele is a bioethicist from George Washinton University who grew up in a malarial zone of the Zambezi Valley so brings a personal perspect…
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How good are you at Microsoft Excel? Not as good as the young people in a new documentary called Spreadsheet Champions. Having its Australian Premiere at the MIFF, the documentary follows six national Excel champions from Guatemala, Cameroon, Vietnam, Greece, Australia and the USA as they compete in the World Championships. Guests: Kristina Kraskov…
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Planning for the robotic future that's already here
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While city streets teeming with robots might feel like a scene from a sci-fi movie, service robots are already commonplace in the public spaces of cities like Tokyo and Singapore. But while the technology forges ahead, the regulators that plan the public policies for our cities are being left behind, leaving a potential for a gulf between what popu…
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An $8 million Mars rock and the science behind it
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Sotheby's sold a meteorite from Mars for US$5.3 million last Wednesday to an undisclosed buyer. Sotheby's claims is the largest Martian meteorite in the world, at nearly 25kgs. But for planetary scientist like Professor Gretchen Benedix, the value of Martian meteorites is beyond the imaginations of most private collectors. She shares the science th…
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Inmate awarded PHD for prison garden design
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It is hard enough to complete a PHD, but imagine doing it without access to libraries or the Internet. One inmate from the maximum security Macquarie Correctional Centre in Wellington in Central West NSW has completed a PHD designing and constructing hydroponic garden that grows fresh vegetables for the prison population. How did he do it? Guest: D…
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Tasmanians are going back to the polls, after a successful no-confidence motion was made against the Premier Jeremy Rockliff. The snap poll comes just over a year since the last election, and its likely whoever wins will have to once again navigate a politically diverse crossbench. GUEST: Richard Eccleston Professor of Political Science, University…
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The backpacker killer. The Claremont killer. Ted Bundy. The crimes serial killers commit linger in our memories for decades. But when was the last time you heard about an active serial killer in the news? In our final episode of Criminal Psychology, we probe the lead-crime hypothesis, find out about 'chemical castration' and ask — where have all th…
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AFL Saturday with Corbin Middlemas, Mick Malthouse and Chad Wingard, reviewing and previewing the AFL matches in Round 19. Today's guests, Essendon Coach Brad Scott, and Port Adelaide Coach Ken Hinkley.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Discover the story of a pair of brothers who invented an early electric scooter, humidicrib, fax machine, Olympic scoreboard — and much more! — in their South Australian workshop from the 1930s to the 60s. We also learn about a trial that's generated energy from the waves, and unearth two rare photographs of a long-lost bandicoot species.…
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Discover the story of a pair of brothers who invented an early electric scooter, humidicrib, fax machine, Olympic scoreboard — and much more! — in their South Australian workshop from the 1930s to the 60s. We also learn about a trial that's generated energy from the waves, and unearth two rare photographs of a long-lost bandicoot species.…
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In the days following the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation, the people of Rongelap, in the Marshall Islands, desperately need help. But when that help arrived, it came with something they didn’t expect and never agreed to.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Wood mulch advice for the Perth metro area
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Amber and Sabrina get clarification on using wood mulch on the Perth metro area, plus advice from Sabrina on delicious monsters, pruning very old frangipanis and keeping a dichondra ground cover under control. 17:14 Monstera deliciosa has brown and yellow tips on the leaves 31:33 Should a 67-year-old frangipani be pruned back? 45:42 Is the silver d…
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ABC Radio's Country Breakfast is an entertaining look at rural and regional issues around Australia.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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04 Beef | YouTube detectives uncover PlayStation guru’s shocking secret
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It started with a bizarre customer-service experience and soon transformed into something darker. Outrage rippled across Youtube, spurring an army of online vigilantes into action. But as reporter Maddison Connaughton discovered, the stakes were higher than anyone anticipated.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The psychology of the ick, from All in the Mind
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Have you ever experienced 'the ick'? It's that sudden, visceral feeling of being put off by someone you're dating. Maybe it's their flat cap, the way they chew, or how they laugh. Stories of the ick are prolific online, but it leaves us with a question — what causes it? To separate red flags from disgust, we get into the psychology of the ick — why…
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The Mighty Challenge Friday July 18th 2025
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Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the only quiz played live, all around Australia. Join the host of Nightlife Lisa Pellegrino for The Mighty Challenge!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Lisa spoke with journalist Sue Williams about her article in the Good Weekend about the downsides of downsizing.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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How do we tell what's real and what's not, when the internet is flooded with AI slop?
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Do you think you can tell the difference between what's real and what's made by AI? What about writing? Or even music? More AI-generated content is making its way into what we hear, read, and write and it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference. And when we can't tell who's making the things we consume, we can't tell their intentions beh…
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TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Rafa Manajem and David Correos (NZ)
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Start your weekend right with TGIF, Charlie Pickering is on a gap week. So the fabulous Brian Nankervis steps up to host. This show features special guests including TGIF with Kirsty Webeck, Rafa Manajem and David Correos (NZ). Local comedian Callum Straford will be playing a tune on the piano.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Not all seaweeds will suffer under climate change
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We know that the warming world is devastating ecosystems, but it's not always because organisms are struggling. This is especially the case in the ocean, where different seaweed species can have very different reactions to changing conditions.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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A wave energy generator trial has been running at Albany on WA's south coast. Researchers say these offshore devices, if scaled up, could be a useful source of renewable power.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Australian brothers who made everything from EVs to humidicribs
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Electric scooter, humidicrib, fax machine, Olympic scoreboard — versions of all these inventions (and hundreds more) were created by a pair of brothers, Donald and Edward Both, in their South Australian workshop from the 1930s.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The bandicoot with a butterfly on its back
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The Nullarbor barred bandicoot (Perameles papillon) was identified as a new species in 2018, despite being extinct for nearly a century. Until recently, all scientists had of the bandicoots were a handful of museum specimens and one black and white glass slide. Now two photographs of the species have been discovered at the University of Melbourne, …
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Self-medicating species: Animals that say yes to drugs
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It turns out self-medicating and herbal remedies are not exclusive to humans. From cats eating grass, to elephants making medicinal tea in their throat pouch — the animal world has its own prescriptions. And naturally, there's plenty of digging through poo involved in this scientific research! Featuring: Dr Kevin Feeney, Central Washington Universi…
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Fri Fix: Wallabies Lion taming blueprint, AFL’s moving day, netball finals guide
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How can the Wallabies tame the ferocious Lions of Britain and Ireland? We ask Australian rugby legend Tim Horan. This Sunday shapes as moving day in the AFL as teams finals fortunes rise and fall in three epic clashes. The NRL has two big-playmaker-led storylines. While Super Netball has reached finals time. We tell you what you need to know. Featu…
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NAIDOC Elders of the Year continue to pave the way
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Celebrate the immense contributions that the National NAIDOC Elders of the Year Uncle Phillip Harry Hall and Aunty Rosalie Kickett have made in their communities.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Encore: The secret world of servos after dark
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David Goodwin spent years working the graveyard shift at his local service station in the outer suburbs of Melbourne. The grungy work quickly took over his life (R) He took the job to support his university studies, but working overnight made study impossible and soon the work took over. From his brightly lit perch behind the anti-jump wires, David…
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Why meaningful work when you are young matters
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New research suggests many young people aged between 20 and 34 aren't using their skills in their current job and can't get the hours they want, in this edition of the Conversation Hour we explore what impact this can have. Also, in this edition, how much will the stadium debate sway the election results in Tasmania, the secret life of farmers and …
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Lessons from South Korea's security dilemma
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South Korea is a test case in how to maintain democracy against sustained pressure from dictatorship. The innovative and entrepreneurial country lives in the shadow of China and Russia, and its capital Seoul lies only 50km from the North Korean border. It hasn't been easy, but the difficulties South Korea faces and the way it deals with them could …
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Ask Aunty: Do different sleep routines equal relationship doom?
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In the age of life hacking, goal setting and 24 hour stimulation, getting a sleep routine that works can be a real challenge. But, what happens when you have one that's working really well for you, and then you shack up with someone who completely up-ends it?By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Growing up, many of us may start to think of ourselves as people who just “aren’t that into sport”. But what if we get older and decide we do want to make fitness a part of our lives? How can we form new "sporting identities"? What could help us find that unique physical activity that brings us joy and allow us to build the skills and confidence we…
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Is it time to bring back natural philosophy?
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Once upon a time, what we now call scientists were known as "natural philosophers". These were people who studied the physical universe through observation and logic, using philosophical methods and reasoning. Today, science and philosophy have gone their separate ways, with some scientists rejoicing in the split (the late theoretical physicist Ste…
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Experience prevails as GWS demolish young Dons
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GWS didn't need to get out of first gear to make light work of the inaccurate and injury plagued Bombers, but how long will the Giants remain in the top four? Marc Murphy has done the maths and believes Sydney is still a change to make the finals this year. Plus, the team answer all the big questions ahead of the remainder of Round 19.…
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Vegetable-powered vehicle and dinosaur discovery
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This week on News Time you’ll hear about a puzzling new dinosaur discovery, we’ll hit the road in a vehicle powered by veggies, and then meet some cheeky animals in a sticky situation for our Wow of the Week. Quiz Questions 1. What does Ian use to power his ute? 2. Where have the migrating whales swum from? 3. What is the name of the newly discover…
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The decline of history teaching, and abortion through the ages
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Professor Chris Wallace argues the decline in both enrolments in, and the offering of history and other humanities subjects at Australian universities has resulted in a loss of capacity for historical thinking. Plus, how women have handled unwanted and dangerous pregnancies throughout history.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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Nightlife News Breakdown - Greg Jericho - Guardian Australia
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Nightlife News Breakdown with Philip Clark, joined by Dr Greg Jericho, Guardian Australia Columnist, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, blogger, and journalist.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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If you're trying to decide which car to buy or want to learn more about the latest EVs on the market, Motortorque can help.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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International Affairs - Prime Minister Albanese China Visit
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China has called for greater economic collaboration with Australia amidst international economic uncertainty. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with China's Premier Li Qiang where the Chinese leader took a veiled swipe at US President Trump's tariff policies.By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Mighty Challenge Thursday July 17th 2025
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Are you into your trivia? Calling all connoisseurs of cryptic to the only quiz played live, all around Australia. Join the host of Nightlife Philip Clark for The Mighty Challenge!By Australian Broadcasting Corporation
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