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On this edition of News Time, we’ll head to a beach to see a shipwreck, we’ll hear about a clever invention giving sick kids a holiday from hospital, and we’ll hit the shearing sheds for a wild and woolly Wow of the Week!

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 30 October 2025 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 30 October 2025 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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On this edition of News Time, we’ll head to a beach to see a shipwreck, we’ll hear about a clever invention giving sick kids a holiday from hospital, and we’ll hit the shearing sheds for a wild and woolly Wow of the Week!

Quiz Questions

1. How big was the tiny noisy frog?

2. How old is the shipwreck believed to be?

3. What sort of business did Sharon create?

4. What technology allows kids to have a holiday from hospital?

5. How many lambs did Nikki shear in nine hours?

Bonus Tricky Question

How do the newly-discovered frogs on Dauan Island begin life?

Answers

1. As big as a fingernail

2. 100 years old

3. Catering

4. Virtual Reality (VR) headsets

5. 502

Bonus Tricky Answer

They hatch from eggs (and don't begin life as tadpoles!)


© Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 12 min

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