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KIDS NEWS 2025: evergreen holder artwork SUMMER HOLIDAYS, 4:3 thumbnail plus subs. Picture: Darren Gover

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

17, November, 2025. **For The Saturday Telegraph**

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?

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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 some great prizes. Can you find your way through the Kids News questions to reach the treasure?

An ear is seen in Washington,DC on May 16, 2018. A simple looped soundbite with just two syllables has ignited an internet meltdown, dividing social media users into staunchly opposed camps: do you hear

Which do you hear — Yanny or Laurel?

It’s not as simple as hearing the right or wrong name on this social-media listening test that went viral. Which do you hear?

Dior (big dog) and Oscar are very pampered. Their Mum owns Pooches on Pakington which sells designer pet accesories. New research has shown how much people are spending on their pets. Picture: Peter Ristevski

Luxury life for pampered pets

Expensive birthday parties, organic food, special holidays and much, much more: that’s the life of Australia’s pampered dogs. Do you know a dog who’s treated like a celebrity?

Hundreds of rubix cubers flock to Ivanhoe Grammar to compete in the Cube for Cambodia competition. Feliks (yes, FELIKS) Zemdegs broke the World Record with 4.22 seconds. Picture Jay Town.

Fastest Rubik’s cube solve ever

Melbourne student Feliks Zemdegs is the fastest human ever to solve a Rubik’s cube. He took 4.22 seconds. How fast are you?

Child falling back into a swimming pool

Here’s how to be happy

A new world study finds kids are happiest when they’re spending time with their family, friends and pets. Is that what makes you happy too?

PREPS will use a humanoid robot to improve their speaking and listening skills. The 30cm- tall NAO robot is being programmed by grade 5 students at Glendal Primary School to interact with prep children. Prep students, Alivia and Eshan dance along with NAO's the robot. Picture: Tony Gough

Robot teachers take over class

In classrooms all around the world, a new type of teacher is helping students learn. And it’s not a human. It’s a robot. Would you like a robot teacher?

Thankfully, Pitts had the foresight to capture the sequence on film.

Golfer scores birdie of a different kind

Great golfers score birdies and eagles but one high school student scored a wild goose chase instead and the images went viral on social media

Eye surgeries, Dr Buddy.

Real reason why we have eyebrows

Researchers have discovered the reason why we have eyebrows — to help early humans show emotion and communicate before we could speak

Python swallows slipper being operated on at HerpVet

Hungry snake swallows slipper

A hungry coast carpet python has stunned vets after swallowing a man’s slipper and ending up in surgery. See the amazing X-rays

Easter Egg Hunt. Lees sisters Jessica (3) and Caitlin (4) with their hord of chocolate easter eggs. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Inside an Easter egg factory

We take a look inside a busy Cadbury’s chocolate factory making millions of eggs in time for Easter

This undated handout photo supplied on March 18, 2018 by Perth's Cockburn Masters Swimming Club shows swimmers posing with a giant inflatable duck they named Daphne in Perth. The Australian swimming club is appealing for ocean watchers to find their giant yellow inflatable duck Daphne, after the mascot was blown into the Indian Ocean with reported sightings hundreds of kilometres from where it was launched. The duck, owned by Cockburn Masters Swimming Club, was last seen at Perth's Coogee Beach in the early hours of March 11 as organisers prepared for a carnival. / AFP PHOTO / PERTH'S COCKBURN MASTERS SWIMMING CLUB / Nick WYATT / - NO Internet / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

Daphne the giant duck rescued at sea

Daphne the giant, inflatable duck is rescued at sea after floating away during a Perth swimming carnival

SPEAK TO GCB PIC ED BEFORE USE: Borobi, the Gold Coast 2018Commonwealth Games mascot, hits the water at Surfers Paradise for an early morning surf before work. Picture Glenn Hampson

Meet Borobi the Comm Games mascot

A surfing blue koala is the mascot for the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast. We meet Borobi and learn why he was chosen.

The Sydney Opera House is bathed in a green glow to celebrate St Patrick's Day.

Opera House turns green for St Patrick’s Day

The Sydney Opera House joins a list of world landmarks to turn green to celebrate St Patrick’s Day.

‘It was the size of a settee’ ... Picture: Brendon Shinnick/Reel Force ChartersSource:Supplied

Sue reels in monster fish on holiday

Tourist Sue Elcock reels in monster fish — which is longer than her own body — while in Australia on holiday

Giant egg laid at Stockman's Eggs in Far North Queensland. The smaller egg was found inside the large one.

Giant egg has another egg inside

Queensland farmers crack open giant egg to find another normal-sized egg inside

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