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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, the risk of constitutional crisis, DOGE, Tesla, insurance costs, recession risks, egg shortages, DeepSeek, neo-Nazis, Putin and Xi, the jobs market ...
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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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US tariffs have caused Trump-supporting billionaires to lose big in market turmoil, but none more so than Elon Musk, whose net worth has shrunk by $130 billion this year. Now, open feuding with another advisor in the Trump administration over tariff policy could mark a shift in Musk’s relationship with the White House. But when Musk’s time leading …
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This week on News Time, political reporter Shalailah Medhora hosts a special episode about Australia’s federal election. We find out how elections work, why kids can’t vote, what a political party is (spoiler: there’s no fairy bread), and what politicians do in Parliament House. Quiz Questions 1.What date is the 2025 federal election? 2.How old do …
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The US is pushing ahead with its trade war with China, imposing a huge tariff on all Chinese goods entering America. Given China is our largest trading partner, what does it mean for our hip pocket? Today, economist Susan Stone explains what the economic chaos means for the dollar, shares, superannuation and interest rates. Featured: Dr Susan Stone…
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Last week, two men allegedly each carrying a gun managed to get into the MCG for a packed AFL match. So how could that have happened in Australia, where gun control is so tight and where security screening should be amongst the best in the world? Today, investigative reporter Josh Roberston on what unfolded and whether a new AI security system at t…
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Stocks are tumbling, the value of the Australian dollar is falling and the scene looks set for a US recession with global fallout. The tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed on imports to the United States are rattling global markets with potential wide ranging impacts for our economy. Our biggest trading partner China is one of the hardest hit…
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Both major political parties think Australia needs to spend more on defence in an increasingly uncertain world. But what is the threat we have to be ready for? Our listener, Eric, asked us about defence funding and whether boosting it can be justified when so many Australians are struggling to get by. Today, Sam Roggeveen, director of the Lowy Inst…
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The US president says America has been looted and plundered for decades. Global trade is his enemy and his response? Big tariffs, or taxes, charged on goods imported to the United States, from another 34 percent on Chinese imports to 10 percent on everything sent from Australia. They’re coming into effect this weekend and Trump thinks they will rev…
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The power of the unions has always been a huge battleground for Labor and the Coalition. Now there are revelations about the role the former Prime Minister John Howard and his ministers really played in one of the biggest, most divisive industrial disputes in Australia’s history. In April 1998 Patrick Stevedores dismissed and locked out 1400 wharfi…
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We won’t know until after this election who has donated to the political parties for this campaign and how much they’ve handed over. But voters are sceptical, with some of our listeners questioning the role of billionaires in our politics. Evalyn from Bendigo in Victoria asked us about the mining magnate Gina Rinehart. What influence do donations t…
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It’s just a TV show, it’s not real, but the series Adolescence has really got people talking. The Netflix crime drama is about a teenage boy accused of murdering a female classmate and it takes the issues of toxic masculinity, loneliness and the gender divide to the extreme. It’s got a lot of parents thinking about what their children are seeing on…
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Last week, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young stood up in the Senate chamber holding a big dead fish. Almost all of us have eaten Tasmanian farmed salmon at some point, so why has it become so contentious ahead of the federal election? Today, Leon Compton, host of ABC Radio’s Tasmania Mornings program, explains the controversy and what it means for …
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