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Lunar New Year and super-sized marsupials

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Today, we're celebrating Lunar New Year, cheering on an award-winning country music star, meeting a super-sized marsupial, exploring some rainforests for fuzzy fungi, and Braille-bombing a country town.

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 27 January 2023 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 12 min 27 January 2023 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

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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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Today, we're celebrating Lunar New Year, cheering on an award-winning country music star, meeting a super-sized marsupial, exploring some rainforests for fuzzy fungi, and Braille-bombing a country town.

QUIZ QUESTIONS:

1.Which culture is celebrating Year of the Cat?2.Where did Loren Ryan grow up?3.How many kilograms did Ramsayia Magna grow up to?4.Where in NSW was the new mould species discovered?5.What country town is the first in Australia to be Braille-bombed?BONUS TRICKY QUESTION:

What competition helped launch Keith Urban's career?

ANSWERS:

1.Vietnamese2.Tamworth3.130kg4.Tweed Valley rainforests5.TemoraBONUS TRICKY ANSWER:

Tamworth Country Music Festival's Star Maker competition


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