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KIDS NEWS 2025: evergreen holder artwork SUMMER HOLIDAYS, 4:3 thumbnail plus subs. Picture: Darren Gover

What’s on these summer holidays

The festive season is finally here and there’s plenty of magic happening across the country. Here are some of our favourite things to do and see in each state and territory across Australia

17, November, 2025. **For The Saturday Telegraph**

Teen’s iPhone film gets top nod

Between homework and her fast-food job, meet the 16-year-old Australian teen who has made Australian film awards history with a scary movie she shot entirely on her smartphone

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1920s. Batsman Bill Woodfull ducks Harold Larwood bouncer during 1920s Australia v England Bodyline Test in Brisbane, featured in 2002 TV documentary 'Bodyline : It's Just Not Cricket'.

Top controversies to hit the Ashes

From a metal bat to a stumping that ignited a global uproar, the Ashes series between Australia and England has produced some of the most memorable clashes in the history of cricket – here’s three

Kids News/UNICEF Australia WCD partnership 2025: Pat Cummins playing backyard cricket at home as a teenager with his brother in the background. This image is single use, not to be stored in News Corp library and only to be used for purpose of Pat talking about World Children's Day in his capacity as a UNICEF Australia Ambassador. Picture: supplied

Pat Cummins feeds his inner child

Aussie cricket legend, UNICEF Australia ambassador and child-at-heart Pat Cummins says play isn’t just fun – it’s fundamental. Here’s how the skipper gets his playtime on and off the pitch

KIDS NEWS. UNICEF ambassador Emma McKeon, visited John Paul College in Brisbane to celebrate World ChildrenÃ¢â¬â¢s Day. Picture: UNICEF

Get loud on World Children’s Day

November 20 is World Children’s Day and UNICEF is inviting all Aussie kids to celebrate with ‘a Minute of Loudness’ about the things that matter most to them – so what matters most to you?

The hyper realistic work of Australian artist Cj Hendry. Instagram

Wonka ticket of the Instagram age

For Instagram followers in the know, the race is on down busy city streets as Australian art star Cj Hendry drops little red boxes in Sydney, New York and London like a millennial Willy Wonka

DAILY TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 6, 2022. EMBARGOED FOR THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER, PLEASE CONTACT PIC EDITOR NICOLA AMOROS BEFORE PUBLISHING. Jos Bots, 92, pictured at Stanwell Tops is the oldest Paraglider pilot in Australia. He turns 93 on the 14th of September and is hoping to set a new Guinness World Record for the oldest Paraglider pilot in the world. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Paragliding pensioner chases world record

Paragliding enthusiast Jos Bots celebrated his 93rd birthday with 50 years of flying tucked under his harness but a Guinness World Record is one gift still on the death-defying adventurer’s wishlist

MELBOURNE, SEPTEMBER 13, 2022: Zachary Cheng, 13, is the national winner of the Prime Minister's Spelling Bee in the Year 7-8 age group. He'll be going to Canberra to meet the Prime Minister as part of his prize. Picture: Mark Stewart

Meet this year’s Spelling Bee champions

The national winners of the 2022 Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee have been revealed – and you won’t believe some of the tricky words they had to conquer

Australia's favourite children's author Andy Griffiths is about to release his 12th book in his Treehouse series, The 156-Storey Treehouse where the boys take on an angry snowman at Christmas. Picture: David Caird

What’s your favourite Treehouse book?

With the 12th book in his hit Treehouse series hitting the shelves, author Andy Griffiths has created lots of funny stories. But he can’t pick a favourite. Or can he?

BUNOL, SPAIN - AUGUST 31: A reveler lays is tomato pulp during the Tomatina festival on August 31, 2022 in Bunol, Spain. The world's largest food fight festival, La Tomatina, consists of throwing overripe and low-quality tomatoes at each other. (Photo by Zowy Voeten/Getty Images)

Frenzy at Spanish tomato party

Six trucks rolled into the sleepy Spanish town of Buñol and unleashed 130 tonnes of juicy tomatoes to the wild delight of thousands of tourists massed in the streets for a very pulpy party

mark knight toon for shs august 28 2022

Getting the boot can’t take shine off Ricciardo

Aussie Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo is famous for his beaming smile and doing a ‘shoey’ – and not even getting the boot from his racing team can take those away

WEEKEND TELEGRAPHS- 17/8/22 MUST CHECK WITH PIC EDITOR JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE USING - Anthony Field and his daughter Lucia pictured as she starts her journey as the 2nd blue Wiggle. Picture: Sam Ruttyn

Wiggle’s daughter makes Blue debut

The Wiggles’ famous big red car just became an eight-seater as original member Anthony Field makes room for his 18-year-old daughter, a ballerina now buckling up for a wiggly ride in blue

KIDS NEWS exclusive: Bestselling author David Walliams pictured centre with Kids News cub reporters Atticus Jenkins,7, and Iris Le Vay, 11, at the Shakespeare Room, State Library of NSW, Wednesday 20 July 2022. Picture: Ankit Mishra

Book Week: David Walliams’ favourite authors

Beloved children’s author David Walliams chats exclusively to Kids News cub reporters, sharing childhood memories of favourite stories as Kids News celebrates Book Week WATCH THE VIDEO

Short Story Competition

Grade 6 student Boris Eroshenko has taken out first prize in the Kids News Short Story Competition for his imaginative story The Bog King about a monster puddle. Please get a shot of Boris stomping/jumping in a big puddle near his home plus shots of him writing etc. His entry was chosen from more than 1000 entries nationwide. Boris 12 years old at his home in Boronia. Picture Rebecca Michael. He is definitely in grade 6 not 5

Budding authors on the write path

From cheese monsters on the moon to the heartbreak of war, young writers have wowed the judges with their imaginative tales in this year’s Short Story Comp. Read the winning stories here

Esther Oliver, 8 as Queen of Hearts, Charlotte McLaren, 8 as Crullea de Ville, Ava Poate 9, as Cat in the Hat and Amelia Pegg, 9 as Peter Pan. Book Week at St Mary's College. Picture: Richard Jupe

Creative costumes for Book Week

Deciding which book character to bring to life is a tough call each Book Week, but Kids News and our friends at HarperCollins have devised some creative costuming ideas to help narrow the field

KIDS NEWS exclusive: Bestselling author David Walliams pictured centre with Kids News cub reporters Atticus Jenkins,7, and Iris Le Vay, 11, at the Shakespeare Room, State Library of NSW, Wednesday 20 July 2022. Picture: Ankit Mishra

David Walliams visits Kids News

Beloved children’s author David Walliams chats exclusively to Kids News cub reporters, answering big questions on character inspo and writing mega-selling books WATCH THE VIDEO

Mr. Happy Face looks towards the camera before the start of the World's Ugliest Dog Competition in Petaluma, California on June 24, 2022. - Mr. Happy Face, a 17-year-old Chinese Crested, saved from a hoarder's house, won the competition taking home the $1500 prize. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)

Meet the ugliest mutt on Earth

An ageing Mr Happy Face has won the World’s Ugliest Dog crown – now he’s winning fans around the globe with his story of survival and a second chance at love after being rescued last year

Mark Knight cartoon for SHS

Louis’ antics steal the show at Jubilee party

Young Prince Louis calls an end to the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations as only a child can in Mark Knight’s latest cartoon for Kids News

WEEKEND TELEGRAPH: MAY 21,2022 Chloe Familton (16 years of age) of Cherrybrook at Camden airport. Chloe recently obtained her full Recreational PilotÃs licence through the Air Activity Centre with her father Scott Familton.

Teen puts pilot’s wings before wheels

The sky’s the limit for 16-year-old high school student Chloe Familton – a qualified solo pilot with more hours in the cockpit than behind the wheel of a car

Hang Hang at Guangzhou Zoo in China, sports a unique mane. Zookeepers insist his golden locks were left limp and droopy by the 32C heat and 89% humidity. Hang Hang was snapped trawling around his enclosure with a fellow lion on May 29, and a caretaker said photos of the 'do attracted more visitors.', Picture: Supplied

Lion with mullet causes uproar at Chinese zoo

Even lions can have a bad hair day. Just ask Hang Hang. The big cat’s once glorious mane looks more like a mullet, with keepers blaming hot and humid weather

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