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Photo: Elsie Chittleborough (12), Prime Minister's Spelling Bee champion. SA's Elsie Chittleborough of Torrensville Primary School is the state's first ever national champion title in the PM's Spelling Bee after claiming the Orange level (Years 5-6) of Kids News' national spelling challenge, following a record-breaking 82,000 student registrations. Kids News and the Bee are key pillars in the News in the Community program led by Penny Fowler. Picture: Tim Joy. 16th September 2025

Bee spelling success pretty sweet

Back-to-back victories and a breakthrough win for South Australia have marked the fifth anniversary of Australia’s premier student spelling competition. FULL HONOUR ROLL

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Jennifer Hunt, 15, and her golden retriever Bella before they both embark on a record-breaking flight around Australia from Darwin, Friday, September 9, 2025. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Teen pilot and puppy take off

While most 15-year-olds are in school, Australia’s youngest female pilot and her puppy are set to make history attempting to become the youngest team to fly around our country’s vast coastline

THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB (L to R) SHAY RUDOLPH as STACEY MCGILL and MOMONA TAMADA as CLAUDIA KISHI in episode 207 of THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB Cr. KAILEY SCHWERMAN/NETFLIX © 2021

Meet Gen Alpha money-makers

Gen Alpha is the new breed of Australian entrepreneur, already nipping at the heels of Gen Z and Millennials – so how are kids and teens smashing the avocado crowd and making real money?

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A polite Sri Lankan elephant appeared to wave thanks to a safari group that gave way to the herd when their vehicle came across the elephants crossing the road. Picture: screengrab/Newsflare via Reuters Connect

Elephant appears to wave thanks

Safari-goers in Sri Lanka have captured the heartwarming moment an elephant seems to wave ‘thank you’ as its herd crosses their path – do you think that’s what happened? Take our poll

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KIDS NEWS 2025: Indigenous Literacy Fund (ILF) celebrates Indigenous Literacy Day on Wednesday 3 September. Students from Katherine High School in the Northern Territory have written a bilingual book with Gregg Dreise called Grinch det K’Taun Krok! (Grinch the K-Town Croc!), published by the ILF. Picture: ILF/supplied

ILD: Celebrating strength in stories

Young Indigenous authors have travelled from their remote community to Sydney Opera House this Indigenous Literacy Day, to share their unique bilingual tale about a quacking crocodile

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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Kids News reader vs kids book author

Kids News reader Alexa B has interviewed children’s book author David Baddiel on how long it takes to write a book, his inspiration for Head Kid and if there’ll be a sequel

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‘Canberra bubble’ the 2018 word of the year

A two-word phrase — made famous by the Prime Minister — about politicians worrying about themselves rather than everyday Australians has been named the 2018 Word of the Year

2019 marks the 19th year in a row that Christmas has been celebrated on board the ISS

Astronauts feast for Christmas in zero gravity

Elon Musk sent Christmas dinner to astronauts on the ISS via a SpaceX cargo capsule. The festive menu sounds delicious, but no one will want to eat the other special items on board

Adelaide’s Irene O’Shea the oldest person ever to jump off a plane.
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World-record skydiving for MND

Australian 102-year-old great grandma Irene O’Shea made skydiving history, set a new world record and raised much-needed funds and awareness for motor neurone disease

Popcorn Beach, Canary Islands, Spain. Picture: Instagram

Beach made of millions of pieces of ‘popcorn’

The internet’s latest sensation is a beach that looks like it’s made of popcorn. We find other incredible beaches around the world and explain what happens in nature to create them

An enormous steer in Western Australia is making headlines. At 194cm 'Knickers' is the largest in his category in Australia. Picture: Twitter #7News

“Holy Cow!” story goes viral

Giant Australian steer Knickers is so big his story has gone viral around the world. Back on the farm, Knickers is just getting on with his job of coaching his herd of 20,000 much smaller bovines

The Embraer E190-E2 is unlike any plane you’ve seen before. Picture: Embraer

World’s biggest ‘shark’ seen at Mount Everest

A new kind of aeroplane is on a world tour to show off so airlines buy lots of them. To attract attention, it was first painted as a flying tiger. Now it’s a flying shark. Such big teeth!

There’s the Hogwarts Express at the recreated Hogsmeade Village

Wizard world undergoes doubling charm

In a truly magical display that looks like the work of a doubling charm, Diagon Alley, the Whomping Willow and other features of Harry Potter’s world have turned up 10,000km away in Singapore

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Join the treasure hunt to win!

It’s holiday time and we’re here to help you have fun and maybe even win a great prize. Can you find your way through the Kids News questions to reach the treasure?

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The most flower girls in a wedding is 253, and was achieved at the wedding of Charlene Pearson and Leon Watts (both Australia) in Hita, Japan, on 2 April 2017

Australians on quest to be best

You don’t have to be Usain Bolt to break a world record if you choose the right record for you and your skills. Which is your favourite world record?

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