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Isaac Muller is back to bring you more News Time!

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© Australian Broadcasting Corporation Length 13 min 14 May 2026 NewsEducationalGeography Australia Episodic

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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.

Listen to episode one here

Isaac Muller is back to bring you more News Time!

We’ll hear about a group of teenage hikers who used their knowledge to make a brave rescue. We’ll find something gross but valuable that’s washed up on a beach. Then, in our Wow of the Week, we’ll meet someone who loves our world and has lived on it for much longer than most of us!

Quiz Questions

1. What has been discovered about platypuses from millions of years ago?

2. What did the girls make to get the injured hiker to safety?

3. Ambergris was once used as an ingredient in what item?

4. Where are many Meekatharra kids riding their repaired bikes to?

5. How old did Sir David Attenborough turn last week?

Answers

1. They had teeth!

2. A homemade stretcher

3. Perfume

4. School

5. 100!


© Australian Broadcasting Corporation | 13 min

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