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KIDS NEWS 2026: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 10 Indigenous Literacy Foundation - Great Book Swap Launch on March 10 , 2026. Picture: supplied/ILF/Joseph Mayers

Great Book Swap takes fresh flight

With the help of a preening pair of red-tailed black cockatoos, Australia’s Children’s Laureate has launched the 2026 Great Book Swap at Taronga Zoo – here’s how your school can get swapping

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - 08 SEPTEMBER, 2025: The Moon is pictured in a full lunar eclipse giving it a vibrant red hue commonly referred to as a “blood moon”. Picture: NewsWire / Nicholas Eagar

Where to see rare ‘blood moon’

Tonight’s rare ‘blood moon’ to be visible across every state in Australia for last time in three years. Here’s the best times across the country to watch Tuesday night’s spectacular show

Society and Culture

NT young entrepreneur Victoria Diaz, 8, started her app, BoredKidsClub, with a problem she and others her age knew well: boredom, February 19, 2026. Picture: Thomas McLean

Tiny entrepreneur’s boredom bid

Victoria Diaz dreams of buying a private jet to fly her family around, but first the eight-year-old entrepreneur must banish kids’ boredom – can her bright idea blow away the dullest of dull days?

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Danielle Scott and Cooper Woods, of Australia, carry their country's flag during the closing ceremony of the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Verona, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Winter Olympics: week 2 highlights

Athletes say ‘ciao’ to the memorable mayhem of the 2026 Milano Cortina Games at the Closing Ceremony in Verona, as Australians celebrate our best ever showing at the Winter Olympics

Georges River Council will host the Lunar New Year festival at Hurstville on February 21, 2026.

Giddy up for the Year of the Horse

Join Asian-Australians celebrating Lunar New Year from February 17 as the rare Year of the Fire Horse brings special significance to family traditions and cultural unity – discover what it’s all about

Broken chocolate bar left position isolated on white table. Horizontal composition. Top view Istock brisbane news

Chocolate can inspire a great short story

Award-winning children’s author Jackie French gives her top tips on how to write a winning tale for the Kids News short story writing competition — and it involves eating chocolate

Pictured at Channel 10 in Pyrmont in Sydney . is Dayleni Drike Sanchez. Dayleni is the winner of Australia's Best Kids Newsreader competition. Picture: Richard Dobson

Dayleni is Australia’s best kids’ newsreader

In breaking news ….. eight-year-old Dayleni Drike Sanchez has been named Australia’s best kids’ newsreader and is making her live TV debut. Watch her in action

Mark Knight's cartoon on the Amazon fires

Innocent victims of the Amazon fires

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight explains why he used the faces of innocent animals to measure the destruction of the Amazon fires

Taylor Krieger 8 and Atticus Jenkins 4. Coles and Kidsnews.com.au are giving families a bonus limited-edition mini newspaper filled with interesting tidbits when they buy the newspaper at any Coles supermarket this weekend. The 12-page newspaper mini contains news stories and fun facts from flying cars and new planets to the highest motorbike backflip ever recorded. Photo brief: Kids (Atticus,4, Iggy,9, and Taylor,8) each holding the mini newspaper

Extra, extra! It’s a Kids News mini newspaper

Read all about it … Kids News is now a mini newspaper. Pick up your copy full of fun stories and facts this weekend at Coles to complete your Little Shop 2 collection

Anathan Pham during Dota 2’s The International. Picture: Twitter

Australian eSports teen wins almost $5 million

A young Melbourne champ has won the world’s richest eSports prize for the second year in a row, putting his earnings way ahead of those of many of Australia’s most famous sports stars

Smart little newsreader taking notes.

Are you Australia’s best kids’ newsreader?

Here is the latest news ….. Kids News and Studio 10 are searching for Australia’s best kids’ newsreader. Could it be you? Put on your best TV voice and find out

Neil Campbell during his world-record ride. Picture: SkyNews

Cyclist’s super fast ride sets world record

A man has set a new world record by riding a bike at just over 280kmh, but he still couldn’t beat female cyclist Denise Mueller-Korenek, who is the fastest ever

Kids News Short Story writing competition, supported by HarperCollins

Winners have their own tale published into a book!

It’s Book Week and what better way to get involved than with the Kids News short story writing competition. Winners will have their own story published into a real book and take home an iPad and book pack

Mark Knight cartoon on 50th anniversary of Abbey Rd album

50 years after Abbey Road, there’s a new Fab Four

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover, but his tribute has a twist with a new Fab Four

SUNDAY ESCAPE. PAUL EWART WISHLIST. SECRET WAYS TO SEE ICONIC ATTRACTIONS. Nomad on camel near pyramids in egyptian desert. Picture: iStock

Xbox inventor gets a taste of ancient toast

In an incredible, just-for-fun science experiment, the man who invented Xbox baked a loaf of bread using microscopic yeast spores brought back to life from a 4500-year-old Egyptian pot

Springtails such as this one jump to avoid predators. They are the most abundant micro-creatures on Earth, so it must work. Credit: EYE OF SCIENCE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Meet the minibeasts crawling all over Earth

Microscopic tardigrades made the news for crash-landing on the Moon. Earth is teeming with other tiny creatures just as fascinating. Here are a few you won’t be able to stop looking at

Mark Knight cartoon about Ben Simmons and Crown Casino

Blocking Simmons at Crown was a big gamble

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight finds the funny side of NBA star basketballer Ben Simmons being denied entry to Crown casino on a trip home to Australia

An eight-month-old koala joey from the Gold Coast has been crowned the country’s cutest following a nation-wide search by Tourism Australia. More than seventy cute and cuddly snaps of koala joeys were submitted by wildlife parks and photographers from around the country, with Tourism Australia’s social media team shortlisting its favourite 13 before putting it to a public vote on Facebook. The album of shortlisted entries reached over 1 million people and received thousands of comments and shares. After 24 hours of voting, koala joey Tallow from Paradise Country on the Gold Coast was named the winner, securing the most likes in the period. Picture Tourism Australia

Meet Tallow, Australia’s cutest koala joey

A tiny, wide-eyed koala has been named Australia’s cutest koala joey. And now she’s out of her mother’s pouch, her important work as an ambassador for her species’ conservation really begins

Students from Princes Street Primary School Zara Bury, 11, Tom Mansfield, 12 and Didi Walker, 11 in the schools garden as Stamp Collecting month is all about sustainable gardening. Picture: Zak Simmonds

Let’s go into the garden for stamp collecting month

Worms, bees, birds, flowers and veggies are the stars of Australia’s stamp collecting month, when sustainable gardening and stamp collecting get together to grow something great

Mark Knight's cartoon on Barnaby Joyce crying poor on $200K a year

Why Barnaby Joyce crying poor was a bit rich

In our weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight looks at why Barnaby Joyce crying poor over having to support two families was a bit rich and a cartoonist’s dream

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