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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

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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?

3/2/2020 - Baby Alex Duncan was born at the WCH on 02/02/2020, a date that is not only a palindrome, meaning it reads the same backwards and forwards, but it is also the only time such a sequence will occur this century. Mum Kasia with baby Alex. - Kasia, her husband Chris and daughter Jessica with Alex. Picture: Naomi Jellicoe

Celebrating once-in-a-lifetime palindrome day

When the calendar clicked over to 02/02/2020 on Sunday, few people realised it was a universal palindrome, a momentous date that hasn’t happened since 11/11/1111

A supplied undated image obtained Wednesday, December 4, 2019 shows an image shortlisted for the the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year Lumix People's Choice Award. (AAP Image/Supplied by Wildlife Photographer of the Year/Natural History Museum, Clement Mwangi) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY, MANDATORY CREDIT

World’s best wildlife photos of 2019

One of these incredible photos will be the winning entry in the 2019 Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. Which would you vote for?

The world map of names

World map of most common last names

A fascinating new map has plotted out the most common surnames in every country in the world. Can you guess the most common last name in Australia?

A still from the upcoming animated Disney film Frozen II.

Frozen II will melt most kids’ hearts again

If you are worried that Frozen II won’t live up to the hype of the original movie five years ago, you’ll be pleased to learn it is a confident and funny movie that will melt most children’s hearts

Personalised jars of Vegemite are being offered again this year. Picture: Supplied

Same old Vegemite goes global

Vegemite’s recipe and flavour has not changed, according to the makers of the famous Aussie spread, keen to reassure worried local customers ahead of its historic global launch

Demonstrations showed a butterfly flapping its wings, a rotating planet Earth and a countdown spelled out by floating numbers

Meet the hologram you can see, hear, feel

Researchers have invented a way to create characters that could talk to and interact with us, using speakers that whiz a tiny bead around faster than our brains can track

Rapidoh playdough guessing game - play-doh toy sculpture face 10 Jul 2001. /Toys Play-Doh

Play-Doh’s sticky situation solved

By the 1950s, no one wanted to buy a special sort of dough to clean wallpaper. But some creative thinking saved the failing dough company and we all got to play with Play-Doh

Blank Recycled Paper on an Old Wooden Desk -Photographed on Hasselblad H3D2-39mb Camera

Revealed: Invisible ink invention

Scientists have discovered a new kind of invisible ink that we all use every day that’s virtually free. Unfortunately, to get it to work, you also need a super-hi-tech piece of coated paper

The McDonald's burger and fries 10 years after they were made. Picture: Central European News

Macca’s burger still ‘fresh’ after 10 years

There’s a story that McDonald’s burgers last forever, so one fan kept a burger and fries from 2009 to see if it was true. Today, they still look fine to eat, with no sign of mould or decay

HOLD FOR THE HERALD SUN PIC DESK-----Two great nations with a fierce sporting rivalry head to head in the original extreme sport of jousting at the inaugural Australia vs England Jousting Tournament, held at Kryal Castle near Ballarat. The competition runs over two days in November 2-3. Phillip Leitch riding 'Valiant' [left] and Cliff Marisma riding 'Paco' [right]. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Australia’s knight in shining armour

Phil Leitch lives in a castle, wears a suit of armour and is the current World Jousting Champion. He’s also a real, professional, full-time knight known as Sir Reynard. True story!

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo released by NASA, active regions on the sun combine to look something like a jack-o-lanternâ€™s face. The image was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, which watches the sun at all times from its orbit in space. (NASA via AP)

Sun goes all spooky for Halloween

NASA gets into the Halloween spirit by releasing a spooky image of the Sun looking like a jack-o’-lantern PLUS Check out the kooky canines and creepy cats

A glass jar full of Australian coins. Potential concept for savings, holiday fund, donations, charity, generosity. Money generic, Copy space.

Little mistakes could make you big money

Check your change and empty your money box! You may be the owner of coins that contain minting mistakes or imperfections that makes them worth thousands of dollars

Macpherson Robertson being welcomed home by staff at his Fitzroy factory for MacRobertson's chocolate in 1935. Picture: State Library of Victoria.

Meet Australia’s real Willy Wonka

Australia had its own Willy Wonka long before Roald Dahl wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the real one every bit as eccentric and a genius as the fictional version

Extinction Rebellion cartoon

Protesting extinction is as old as the dinosaurs

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight looks at the Extinction Rebellion protests in Australia and around the world and wonders what the dinosaurs would have thought

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 04: Australia Post is launching a ground breaking campaign for new collectable coinsrepresenting 26 classic Aussie icons from A-Z which will be released progressively each week from Monday 30 September to Monday October 21. These photographs will accompany the release of different coins throughout the campaign and will support various PR activities on September 04, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)

Hunt for $1 coins with pies, footy and boomerangs

The biggest release of $1 coins will feature 26 Australian animals, food and cultural items including meat pies, didgeridoos, Weet-Bix and thongs. Can you find them all in the Great Aussie Coin Hunt?

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