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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

All is not as it seems with this mind-boggling optical illusion

Is your brain playing tricks on you?

This mind-boggling, spinning optical illusion is actually completely still and completely flat but our brains don’t see it that way. Scientists are studying whether that’s a weakness or a strength

Goat Island would have been turned into a massive ANZAC memorial. Picture: Budget Direct Travel Insurance

Reimagining the Sydney Harbour Bridge

Incredible new images reveal what Sydney would look like today had some of the alternative harbour bridge designs been given the green light instead of the now-famous coathanger

Bugha of the US celebrates with the trophy after winning the final of the Solo competition at the 2019 Fortnite World Cup July 28, 2019 inside of Arthur Ashe Stadium, in New York City. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP)

Teen Fortnite world champ now a millionaire

A teenager has collected more than $4.3 million in prizemoney after becoming world champion of the computer game Fortnite, beating 40 million gamers who applied to compete

Sri Lanka's Jehan Mubarak and India's Rohit Sharma watch as a monkey runs past them during the third day of their first test cricket match in Galle, Sri Lanka, August 2015. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte

Great photos of animals interrupting humans’ sports

There are 7.7 billion humans on Earth but many, many more animals of other species, so it’s no wonder animals sometimes interrupt humans’ sports matches. And that can make for a great photo

Mark Knight cartoon on swimmer mack Horton refusing to stand on podium with drug cheat

Why Mack’s small gesture had a giant impact

In our new weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight explains the message he was giving readers when drawing Aussie swimmer Mack Horton refusing to stand on the winners’ podium

Workers sort chillies in Bangladesh

Photos of the world at work in 2019

We look at some of the best contributions to an international photography competition about how we work now and wonder which of these jobs will still be done by humans in 2100

21/07/2019. Australian entrepreneur David Mayman demonstraighting the worldÕs first real jetpack after successfully designing, building and test flying it at the Sydney Opera House today. Before becoming an inventor, David founded True Local, one the worldÕs first B to C search engines that he sold in the early 2000Õs. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Flying man with jetpack wows Sydney crowds

Personal flying devices look closer to becoming a reality after a man wearing a jetpack flew around Sydney Harbour and another man zoomed over Paris on a high-speed hoverboard

Mark Knight cartoon on Moon Landing and Donald Trump for kids News

What the moon landing and Trump have in common

In the first of a new weekly series, award-winning cartoonist Mark Knight explains to Kids News what inspired him to draw a cartoon comparing the moon landing and US President Donald Trump

Celebrating World Emoji Day with Tears of Joy

Celebrating World Emoji Day with Tears of Joy

World Emoji Day on July 17 is a fun, annual celebration of one of the world’s newest ways of communicating. We look at what emojis are, who invented them and if they are a real language

Lovely carrot friends. Picture: Splitpics.uk

Fun fruit and vegetables strike a pose

Have you ever moaned that fruit and vegetables are boring? That you’d like something more fun to eat? You’ll never say fruit and vegetables are boring again after seeing these crazy characters

Jack solving a Rubik's cube blindfold

World’s best Rubik’s cubers ready to set records

Australia’s champion speedcubers are warming up their fingers and concentrating their minds to take on the rest of the world for the World Rubik’s Cube Championships, July 11-14

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Young having his ears checked

What is ear wax and how big can it grow?

A revolting ear wax chunk so big it made international news got us wondering what ear wax is, what it’s for and whether we should clean it out, eat it or leave the inside of our ears alone

Dozens of hobby horses are lined up ready to be ridden during the 8th Hobby Horse championships in Seinajoki, Finland on Saturday, June 15, 2019. More than 400 hobby horse enthusiasts took part in the show, competing on stylish toy horses in various events inspired by real equestrian events. (AP Photo/from APTN Video)

Giddy up for world’s biggest hobby horse sports

The 400 contestants at a sports arena in Finland showjumped, barrel raced and pranced in the biggest event of its kind in the world. But instead of live horses, they rode hobby horses

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Two chimpanzees have fun, laughing generic

All you need to know about hair

The longest arm hair ever recorded was 21.7cm, but that’s not the norm. Though human head hair keeps growing, human body hair doesn’t. We look at how and why there’s a difference

Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun's children meet The Very Hungry Caterpillar. This is a promo story/pic about the book coming to life on stage at Casula Powerhouse on April 15-17. Casula Powerhouse. Ned Mannouns and wife Tina with kids Solomon [41/2]and Jacob [31/2]. Pics Ian Svegovic

The Very Hungry Caterpillar turns 50

Eric Carle’s story about a caterpillar that eats its way through the pages of the book before becoming a beautiful butterfly is one of the most popular children’s books ever

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