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KIDS NEWS 2024: Junior Journalist Newsroom and competition: Years 7-8 entrant and current Junior Journalist of the Year Madison Riquelme submitted original illustrations with her four-part domestic violence series of stories. Picture: Madison Riquelme/supplied

Silent epidemic impacting males

PART 3: The reigning Kids News Junior Journalist of the Year returns with a four-part DV series entered in the Secondary News Story (Print) category WARNING: RED LEVEL (secondary only)

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KIDS NEWS 2024: Junior Journalist Newsroom and competition: Years 7-8 entrant and current Junior Journalist of the Year Madison Riquelme submitted original illustrations with her four-part domestic violence series of stories. Picture: Madison Riquelme/supplied

Kids innocent victims of filicide

PART 2: The reigning Kids News Junior Journalist of the Year returns with a four-part DV series entered in the Secondary News Story (Print) category WARNING: RED LEVEL (secondary only)

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(FILES) This undated image obtained from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, Maryland, shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (green) found within an infected cell (pink and purple), cultured in the laboratory. The World Health Organization on May 11, 2023, has declared that mpox no longer constitutes a global health emergency , almost exactly a year after the disease formerly known as monkeypox started spreading globally. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the decision was prompted by falling case numbers worldwide, but emphasised that the disease remains a threat, particularly in areas of Africa where it has long been present. (Photo by Handout / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

What is mpox and how does it spread?

The World Health Organisation has declared a surge in mpox cases a ‘global public emergency’. But what is mpox, how does it spread and why have health authorities upgraded the warning?

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KIDS NEWS 2024: Junior Journalist Newsroom and competition: Years 7-8 entrant and current Junior Journalist of the Year Madison Riquelme submitted original illustrations with her four-part domestic violence series of stories. Picture: Madison Riquelme/supplied

Education missing the mark on DV

PART 1: The reigning Kids News Junior Journalist of the Year returns with a four-part DV series entered in the Secondary News Story (Print) category WARNING: RED LEVEL (secondary only)

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA : NewsWire Photos JUNE 24 2024: A general view of a Pharmacy in Sydney as Vapes will be made available at pharmacies without a prescription after the Albanese government struck a deal with the Greens that would soften a proposed retail ban on e-cigarettes. Picture: Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Chemists outraged by vape change

Pharmacy groups have slammed changes to a new law allowing people to purchase vapes at chemists without a doctor’s prescription, labelling such a sale ‘unethical’

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TOPSHOT - This handout courtesy of the WikiLeaks X account @wikileaks posted on June 25, 2024 shows WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looking out of the window as his plane from London approaches Bangkok for a layover at Don Mueang International Airport in the Thai capital. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison in Britain and is set to face a final court hearing after reaching a plea deal with US authorities that brings to a close his years-long legal drama. A charter plane flew the 52-year-old from London to Bangkok, where it made a scheduled stop to refuel. (Photo by WikiLeaks / AFP) / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Courtesy of the WikiLeaks X account @wikileaks  " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES

Julian Assange granted freedom

After a controversial case spanning 14 years, the founder of WikiLeaks has returned home to Australia a free man. But who is Julian Assange and why was he imprisoned for so many years?

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People gather at the site of a landslide in Maip Mulitaka in Papua New Guinea's Enga Province on May 24, 2024. Local officials and aid groups said a massive landslide struck a village in Papua New Guinea's highlands on May 24, with many feared dead. (Photo by AFP)

Oz pledges aid after PNG landslide

Australia has offered to help with rescue and recovery efforts after a remote village in neighbouring country Papua New Guinea was hit by a devastating landslide

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FOR KIDS NEWS. R U OK? has launched a national art competition for kids in years 7 and 8 on what an R U OK? conversation means to them. Picture: R U OK?

Art U OK?

R U OK? has launched a national art competition for Years 7-8 students on the theme: what does an R U OK? conversation mean to you – and radio’s Will And Woody are jumping on board

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CORRECTION / This picture shows a slanted building caused by the earthquake in Hualien on April 4, 2024. At least nine people were killed and more than 1,000 injured by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami warnings as far as Japan and the Philippines before being lifted. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) / “The erroneous mention[s] appearing in the metadata of this photo by Sam Yeh has been modified in AFP systems in the following manner: [removing the restrictions]. Please immediately remove the erroneous mention[s] from all your online services and delete it (them) from your servers. If you have been authorized by AFP to distribute it (them) to third parties, please ensure that the same actions are carried out by them. Failure to promptly comply with these instructions will entail liability on your part for any continued or post notification usage. Therefore we thank you very much for all your attention and prompt action. We are sorry for the inconvenience this notification may cause and remain at your disposal for any further information you may require.”

Biggest Taiwan quake in 25 years

Rescue efforts have pushed ahead after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake rocked the island of Taiwan, toppling buildings and prompting tsunami warnings across Japan and the Philippines

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In the heart of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, escalating violence has become a grim reality. In less than two weeks, this violence has led to the displacement of 2,500 people, with most of them being women and children.To address the urgent needs of children and families displaced by the recent armed violence in Port-au-Prince, UNICEF and its partners have established a nutrition site in Delmas.  Picture: UNICEF/ Herold Joseph

Young poets pen pleas for peace

Haitian students have shared heartfelt poems full of hope for peace in their ‘sweet country’, following years of conflict and a growing humanitarian crisis since bandits overtook the capital

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Australian Squadron Leader James Catanach (kneeling, right) with fellow prisoners of war at Stalag Luft III. Picture: The Shrine of Remembrance

Aussie hero’s WWII Great Escape

A young Australian has been remembered for his role in the escape of 76 prisoners of war from Germany’s Stalag Luft III camp, 80 years after the breakout known as ‘the Great Escape’

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ARTEXPRESS 2024 artwork

Be inspired by top teen artists

The multi-site showcase of the most outstanding NSW artworks by HSC visual arts students is here – meet these exemplary young artists and see their amazing works as they set out after school

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Russian President and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin meets with the media at his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2024. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / POOL / AFP)

Putin wins presidential election

Vladimir Putin has been voted in a landslide result as Russia’s president for another six years in an election described as “not free nor fair” where all other candidates weren’t true opponents

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TOPSHOT - View of gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguins at the Paraiso island in the Gerlache Strait -which separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula, on January 20, 2024. Scientists and researchers from various countries are collaborating on projects during the X Antarctic Expedition aboard the Colombian research vessel 'ARC Simon Bolivar,' designed exclusively to develop scientific projects. These initiatives involve analyzing the current condition of the Antarctic sea, studying atmospheric pressure, and monitoring the species inhabiting this region of the planet. (Photo by JUAN BARRETO / AFP)

Bird flu strikes mainland Antarctica

Bird flu has spread to Antarctica for the first time as international scientific agencies confirmed the presence of the virus in skua seabirds found near the Argentinian base

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James Magnussen of Australia after swimming in the Mens 50m Freestyle Final on day six of swimming competition at the XXI Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast Aquatic Centre on the Gold Coast, Australia, Tuesday, April 10, 2018. (AAP Image/Dave Hunt) NO ARCHIVING, EDITORIAL USE ONLY

James Magnussen signs up for Enhanced Games

James Magnussen is the first high-profile Australian athlete to accept an invitation to the ‘Enhanced Games’, an event designed to test performance enhancing drugs and help billionaires fight ageing

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A free solo climber has scaled the front of a tower in Melbourne’s CBD . French international Anthony, 28, ascended about 50 storeys Picture: Trent_Theo/Instagram

‘French Spider-Man’ may go to jail

A climber who scaled a 55-storey building in Melbourne without a harness faces a lengthy prison term after putting lives at risk in a dangerous stunt unworthy of the web-shooting superhero’s name

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Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, flanked by representatives of Arab countries, speaks to the press after a UN General Assembly meeting to vote on a non-binding resolution demanding "an immediate humanitarian ceasefire" in Gaza at UN headquarters in New York on December 12, 2023. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP)

UN votes for Gaza ceasefire

The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly in support of a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Palestine that includes releasing all hostages

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An environmental activist wearing a costume displays a placard in a hallway during the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on December 3, 2023. (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)

Climate topics tackled at COP28

Phasing out fossil fuels across the globe is just one major challenge set to be discussed by more than 100 world representatives at this year’s UN climate change summit

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Mark Knight cartoon on the banning of disposable vapes

Let’s not be dummies about vapes

Cartoonist Mark Knight calls out the dangerous absurdity of replacing one addiction with another as the government moves to ban imported, disposable vapes as companies blatantly target kids

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