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Basketball praise and robot cafés

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It's your new host Emily's first News Time and she's lined up a rich menu of tasty news morsels for you!

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 15 January 2026 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 15 January 2026 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

Assassin spider and space telescope

Assassin spider and space telescope

This is an episodic podcast, so you can listen to it in any order, but episode one is a great place to start.

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It's your new host Emily's first News Time and she's lined up a rich menu of tasty news morsels for you!

We’ll meet some basketball players who are about to live out their hoop dreams, and we’ll meet a rare butterfly that survives thanks to some helpful ants. Then, we’ll head to the bottom of the ocean to discover some unusual treasure in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. What’s something you’d find in a heat haven?

2. Which country will the First Nations basketball team be visiting?

3. We found out people work in Japan as robot pilots… but what do the robots do?

4. What insect works to look after the caterpillars of the purple copper butterfly?

5. What was locked in the safe on the ocean floor?

Bonus Tricky Question

What is the name of Wiradjuri basketball player we met?

Answers

1. Air conditioning, movies, music, colouring in and even volunteers!

2. The USA

3. Serve food and drinks, or give people tours of Tokyo.

4. Ants

5. A packet of beef jerky!

Bonus Tricky Answer

Hugo


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