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***EMBARGOED TILL 5.30PM 18/3/25*** Launch of the Rum'un the Devil is Tasmania Football Club's first mascot. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones

Tasmania locks in first AFL recruit

Tasmania celebrated the first birthday of the Apple Isle’s very own AFL club by unveiling a valuable new recruit – a Tasmanian devil named Rum’un, team mascot for the state’s AFL entry

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This picture provided by NASA shows support teams working around a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams, Butch Wilmore, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov aboard in the water off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, on March 18, 2025. (Photo by Keegan Barber / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA / Keegan Barber" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Stranded astronauts back on Earth

Two NASA astronauts stranded in space for nine months have been given the welcome home of a lifetime, after a pod of dolphins turned blue planet ambassadors by showing up for splashdown

History
The rules for teachers have changed a lot over the years. Picture: AI generated

Crazy old rules for teachers

If you thought Australian schoolkids had it tough back in the day, spare a thought for their poor teachers, who were forced to abide by a seriously bizarre list of strict rules and wacko regulations

Health
Rachel Fendt and Pippa Frey at the 2025 NT Swimming Championships. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Sport win for nation’s diabetic kids

Type 1 diabetes can be a hurdle for sporty young Australians – but scientific innovation is proving a game-changer now kids can focus on training while a new insulin pump does the hard work

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Archie the grey nurse shark pup born at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium. Picture: supplied

Rare aquarium shark birth filmed

A critically endangered grey nurse shark has given birth at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium for the first time in the aquarium’s history, marking an exciting moment in marine conservation

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KIDS NEWS 2025: Life Ed and Healthy Harold have some good tips for preparing for NAPLAN - one of the big ones is getting enough sleep. Picture: Life Ed/supplied

Your NAPLAN superpower is sleep

A few NAPLAN nerves are completely normal but no one wants you to lose sleep over it, and with these helpful tips from Healthy Harold and ‘kid scientist’ Jayki, you’ll be all set in cruise control

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Whale swallows kayaker then spits

A male kayaker was swallowed by a humpback whale off Chilean Patagonia before being released seconds later, unharmed., Adrián Simancas was kayaking with his father, who filmed this video as the massive mammal suddenly surfaced. Picture X

A kayaking trip took an unforgettable turn when a humpback whale swallowed a paddler before immediately spitting him out, with the jaw-dropping moment caught on camera – see the video

Space

Katy Perry to rocket into space

Katy Perry to head to space in all-female mission.

Katy Perry will ‘shoot across the sky’ for real, after Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin announced the pop princess will be the ‘star’ of its next suborbital spaceflight as part of a historic all-female crew

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Bee winners put PM to the test

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - November 25, 2024: National Champions of the 2024 Prime Ministers Spelling Bee.  L-R  Journalist and editor Diana Jenkins, Orange level champion (Years 5-6) category Jillian Strong, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Red level (Years 7-8) National Champion Aditya Paul, Green level champion (Years 3-4) category Echo Feng and News Corp Australia's Community Ambassador Penny Fowler in the Prime Minister's office at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

It has become a tradition for the PM Spelling Bee winners to give the Prime Minister a little spelling test of his own, but there was one especially tricky word that Mr Albanese chose to pass on

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Baby possums rescued in Murwillumbah. Picture: Facebook/Kerryn Law

Mum and bub possums rescued

Shivering possums rescued in QLD after vet Dr Bree Talbot also created a makeshift ER in Byron for marine turtles, an eastern grey kangaroo and flying foxes during Alfred SEE THE VIDEO

Animals
DAILY TELEGRAPH. MARCH 4, 2025. UNDER EMBARGO. SPEAK TO PICTURE DESK BEFORE USE.

Pictured at Mogo Wildlife Park today is Gorilla Kipenzi with her newborn baby. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Baby primate’s gender reveal party

An Australian zoo has welcomed a gorgeous new baby gorilla, with the park’s owner sharing the endangered animal’s gender following a successful birth and warm welcome to the family

Animals
Eastern quolls at Bonorong after successful conservation translocation of 24 eastern quolls to The Quoin in the Midlands. 3 March 2025. Picture: Elise Kaine

Marsupials quoll-ify for new home

The eastern quoll has been extinct on mainland Australia for more than 50 years and scientists are concerned about their future in Tasmania but a conservation plan hopes to boost numbers

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The discovery has led to the confirmation of the existence of large carnivorous dinosaurs on what would become the Australian continent. Picture: Jonathan Metzger/Supplied

Apex predator an Australian first

Landmark new evidence points to a unique food chain led by a previously undiscovered carnivorous dinosaur that roamed the Australian continent over 100 million years ago

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Explainers
Mark Knight cartoon 12/03/2025

Melb Grand Prix or criminal spree

Excitement in Melbourne is at fever pitch for the Grand Prix but a darker current is stripping the sheen off life in the capital as Mark Knight’s cartoon reimagines youth crime as an F1 pit heist

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 08:  Shane Warne poses for photos after speaking to the media during a Melbourne Stars Twenty20 Big Bash League announcement at Melbourne Cricket Ground on November 8, 2011 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Robert Prezioso/Getty Images)

Warnie’s MCG wish to come true

Melbourne Cricket Ground’s 150th birthday bash will be an occasion to remember, as late Aussie spin legend Shane Warne’s long-held dream of a pink-ball night-time Test comes true

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NCA. MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA. 6th March, 2025 .  Melbourne teenager Isaac Woodhouse heads off to America tomorrow to Springball in California to try out for a college gridiron opportunity.  Picture: Michael Klein

Aussie teen eyed for quarterback

US talent scouts have their eyes on this 19 year-old Melbourne teenager, who could become the first ever Australian quarterback to play in the NFL if he lands a deal with one of the teams

Sport
The Daily Telegraph 23.1.2025 Olympic gold medalists Jessica (Red Bull Helmet white kayak) and Noemie Fox (white helmet blue kayak) will compete on home soil for the first time since their memorable gold medalists haul at the Paris Olympic Games. Pictured at Penrith Whitewater Stadium.   Picture: Rohan Kelly

Oz sport’s most powerful women

Female athletes claimed more than 50 per cent of all medals at the Paris Games and delivered an Ashes whitewash – here are some of Australia’s top female sporting performers of last year

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The shocked face of a little girl seeing the last trace of peanut butter, seen from the bottom of the jar.

American trade tariffs explained

The US has introduced a raft of tariffs on goods imported from other countries, including Australia. Experts say tariffs could drive up prices for Americans, but how will they affect us here?

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Donald Trump is set to call Putin

Ukraine signs a pathway to peace

After three years of war, an immediate 30 day ceasefire could halt all fighting in Ukraine if Russia agrees to the terms of the plan, with Kyiv already committed to the proposal negotiated by the US