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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?

Lukas Bates wearing a costume of the Queen Elizabeth Tower (known as Big Ben) is helped by an official as he attempts to get past the finishing line, during the 39th London Marathon in London, Sunday, April 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Big Ben runner has bad time at end of marathon

After running 42km in a massive costume, one athlete couldn’t fit under the finish line to the London marathon. Watch the funny video of the end of the race

Chill - fairy bread, buttered white bread covered in sprinkles.

Australia celebrates fairy bread’s 90th birthday

Tasmanians can claim a long list of world-changing inventions. That list now includes the kids’ birthday party classic fairy bread, just in time for the treat’s own 90th birthday party

Kids News is taking a break until April 21, 2019

Win a slime kit in our colouring-in competition

Kids News is running an Easter colouring-in competition during the school holidays with a super slime kit the ultimate prize for the best entries. Ready, set, colour

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What is chocolate and is it good for you?

Almost everyone is mad about chocolate and not just at Easter. Ahead of the annual chocolate feast, we set out to answer some of the most asked questions about this special treat

Swedish surfer Pontus Hallin waits for waves as he sits on his melting ice surfboard at the Delp surfing spot, near Straumnes, in the Lofoten Islands, over the Arctic Circle on February 18, 2019. (AFP / Olivier Morin)

Extreme surfers invent iceboard surfing

Surfers have a lot of time to think about the health of the world’s oceans when they’re out there waiting for a wave, so these surfers invented the ultimate eco-friendly surfboard

WWF Earth Hour

Earth Hour: Change the way we live

Join the global movement of hundreds of millions of people all turning off the lights as a way of working together to care for the environment

Australian huntsman spider aren't very dangerous to humans

Weird, wacky, wonderful nature photos

We’ve compiled an incredible collection of photographs of creatures big and small interacting with the world in amazing ways. Which photo do you like best?

24/09/2002 PIRATE: Actor Daniel Radcliffe in scene from film

Harry Potter on mission to get gamers outdoors

Get ready for the next Harry Potter craze — and one of its main aims is to get fans and gamers spending more time outdoors in a Pokemon Go-style treasure hunt

Pink Lake - Westgate Park. The pink lake at Westgate Park has become one of the most selfied and Instagrammed places in Victoria. (L-R) Alex, Sheehan, Abner and Chloe take a selfie. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Lipstick-pink lake a hit for selfies

People who love pink are flocking like flamingoes to take selfies in front of a lake in Melbourne dyed by a population explosion of algae

A scene from Toy Story 4.

Toy Story 4 is an adventure of discovery

New friends, old friends, daring rescues and what it means to be a child’s toy are all part of the storyline for the new Toy Story 4 movie. Watch the full-length trailer

Swiss cheesemaker Beat Wampfler smells a piece of cheese that has been matured for 6 month with hip-hop music on the final day of an experiment conducted by the University of the Arts in Bern on March 14, 2019 in Berthoud, in the Emmental region, central Switzerland. - Beat Wampfler, a Swiss veterinarian by day, but consumate apron-wearing cheese enthusiast at night, has embarked on an experiment to test the impact of music on Emmental. Since last September, the cheeses have each been blasted with sonic masterpieces from the likes of rock gods Led Zeppelin or hip-hop legends A Tribe Called Quest to techno beats, ambient choirs and Mozart's classic Magic Flute. A jury of expert tasted the cheeses on March 14, 2019 and the tasty winner the cheese matured with the hip-hop album. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Hip hop makes cheese taste great

Playing music to cheese improves its flavour, according to a Swiss study. But not just any music will do. Hip hop is where it’s at if you want really fruity cheese

Chris Byrnes broke three national records at the Aus/NZ National Skydiving Championships in Moruya on 12/3/19.

Green Flying Dude is king of the sky

High-flying wingsuiter Chris Byrnes — otherwise known as The Green Flying Dude — is king of the sky after claiming three national titles

Elsa in a scene from Disney movie trailer for Frozen 2

First look at Frozen 2 movie trailer

The first teaser for the Disney movie Frozen 2 has been released. This time , Elsa and Anna must navigate their way through another dangerous adventure

A man takes a photograph of a woman front of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. NSW's net debt will be wiped out following a bumper budget surplus of $4.7 billion for the last financial year, Treasurer Gladys Berejiklian. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

How the Opera House could have looked

It’s one of Australia’s most recognisable landmarks, but the Sydney Opera House could have looked very, very different if any of the other ideas submitted were built instead

Nilanshi Patel, a 16-year-old girl from Gujarat, India, has her record-breaking hair combed. Picture: Guinness World Records

Girl’s long hair breaks world record

She’s only 16 years old, yet this girl has already broken a world long-hair record, all because she had a bad haircut when she was six years old

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