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KIDS NEWS2024: Olympic skateboarder Chloe Covell, pictured in Coogee at an August fan event for Red Bull after returning from Paris. First use reserved for Kids News, Monday14 October 2024. Picture: Anna Kucera  Red Bull

How Chloe Covell keeps her cool

Kids News was stoked to meet one of our Team Australia heroes, skateboarder Chloe Covell, the youngest of our Paris Olympians, who reveals a surprising new trick in our exclusive Q&A

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 30: Hannah Darlington of Australia A prepares to bowl during the Australia A and England A one day international tour match at EPC Solar Park on January 30, 2022, in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Jeremy Ng/Getty Images)

Cricket star bowls out boundaries

By the time she hit her teens, cricket star Hannah Darlington just wanted to play – and the game she loved led to her biggest win yet when her family learned the story of their Indigenous heritage

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DAILY TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 6, 2024. Panthers celebrating winning the NRL Grand Final against Melbourne Storm at Accor Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Panthers’ win makes NRL history

Sydney’s Penrith Panthers held off Melbourne Storm in the league grand final to become the first team in the modern NRL era to win four straight titles, denying the visitors but thrilling their fans

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Kids News is taking a short break

Spring has sprung and cricket season has begun! Your teacher can send in class questions for the Kids News Q&A with Pat Cummins – for now download your free colouring sheet from his new book

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Herald Sun cartoonist Mark Knight  with his 2024 AFL Premiership Posters of the Sydney Swans and the Brisbane Lions. Picture: Ian Currie

Footy fever in Knight’s AFL posters

Herald Sun cartoonist and Kids News favourite Mark Knight has unveiled his AFL premierships posters for 2024 ahead of Saturday’s blockbuster match between the Lions and the Swans

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Curtis Peterson from Tiwi Islands Adventures reeled in this creature from the deep during a recent charter. Picture: Fishing Australia TV Facebook.

Freaky NT monster of the deep

Australia is infamous for its massive crocs, painful stingers and hungry sharks and now there’s a crazy sea creature on the list – check out this amazing Tiwi Islands catch with a giant horse head

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The 500m diameter asteroid Bennu, imaged by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in December 2018. Picture NASA For Martin George col for The Mercury

Aussie team to assess asteroid risk

Australian researchers are studying samples taken from a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid to figure out how we can prevent a future collision while unlocking the mind-boggling secrets of our universe

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Birtles and the Bean, a reenactment of the journey from London to Melbourne originally undertaken in 1927 by Australian Adventurer, Francis Birtles.

Pictured: Daily Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown and Editor-at-large Matthew Benns with their Bean car outside Australia House, Strand, London as they start their three month journey to Australia.

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Time-travelling adventurers set off

Daily Telegraph cartoonist Warren Brown and editor-at-large Matthew Benns have set out on an epic 24,000 km journey to recreate Francis Birtles’s 1927 drive from London to Melbourne

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10-year-old Jillian Strong at her Bellbowrie home, Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - Picture: Richard Walker

New Spelling Bee champs crowned

After over 70,000 student registrations, three riveting rounds and every state and territory in Australia joining the hive, it’s time to meet the national champions of the 2024 PM’s Spelling Bee

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Glasgow saves the Comm Games

Scotland will host a pared back 2026 Commonwealth Games after Victoria dropped its hosting commitments last year – but which sports will make the cut and why is Australia still paying for it?

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A crowd watches as the full moon is seen between the clouds from Balg Hill south of Sydney, Monday, Nov. 14, 2016. The Supermoon, at perigee is the closest it has been to Earth since January 1948. (AAP Image/Dean Lewins) NO ARCHIVING

Where to see Harvest Supermoon

The largest full moon of the year, the Harvest Supermoon will be visible in the skies over Australia tonight, Wednesday 18 September – find out why this supermoon is not to be missed

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BENONI, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 11:  Mahli Beardman of Australia celebrates a wicket with his teammates during the ICC U19 Men's World Cup 2024, Final match between India and Australia at Willowmoore Park on February 11, 2024 in Benoni, South Africa. (Photo by Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images)

Teen tapped for Aussie ODI squad

Australian teenager Mahli Beardman says it’s surreal being selected as a standby player for Australia’s ODI series in England, where the Perth boy will back up the country’s cricketing greats

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TOPSHOT - A Sherrif block the street outside the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on September 15, 2024 following a shooting incident at former US president Donald Trump's golf course. Trump's campaign reported Sunday that there had been "gunshots in his vicinity" but added that the Republican presidential candidate was safe. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Trump safe after second attempt

The FBI is investigating a second attempted assassination of former US president and Republican nominee Donald Trump while he was playing golf in Florida – how did it happen again?

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BAKU, AZERBAIJAN - SEPTEMBER 15: Race winner Oscar Piastri of Australia and McLaren and McLaren race engineer Tom Stallard celebrate on the podium during the F1 Grand Prix of Azerbaijan at Baku City Circuit on September 15, 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan. (Photo by Dan Mullan/Getty Images) *** BESTPIX ***

Grand Prix crowns new F1 king

Formula One’s Aussie youngblood Oscar Piastri has delivered on years of hype, etching his name in history by winning his second Grand Prix in a tyre-shredding victory that will redefine the grid

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