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Radio National Breakfast
Radio National Breakfast is Australia's only daily national radio current affairs program, synonymous with agenda-setting news coverage, breaking news and a place where you will hear the most significant stories impacting the lives of all Australians wherever they live. The full unedited daily prog...
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Breakfast Wrap: Victoria's 'adult time for violent crime' laws under scrutiny
"Adult Crime, Adult Time" was a policy that the Queensland LNP took to last year's state election and won.
Now, ahead of Victoria's state electi...
Seven Sisters star cluster has over 3,000 sibling stars, says new research
If you turned your eyes to the sky early this morning you might have seen the famous Pleiades star cluster - commonly known as the Seven Sisters.
Changing Australia: Tracey Corbin-Matchett on raising the profile of people with disability in film
Inaccessible workplaces, employer biases or ignorance and systemic barriers are just some of the challenges you might face trying to get a job when yo...
Australia squandering Matildas success with struggling domestic league
Two years ago the Matildas were the most-watched sporting team in the country as they battled to the semi-finals of the World Cup in Australia.
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Matt Kean on COP30 climate talks and Liberals' net zero debate
World leaders have converged on the Amazon city of Belem in Brazil for the COP30 climate change talks.
Matt Kean is representing Australia as th...
Wilkie pushes for more detail on Australia-Indonesia treaty
Australia has struck a bilateral security treaty with Indonesia... the second major treaty Australia has negotiated in as many months, after inking a...
'We should have a target': Liberal senator reflects on net zero debate
The Liberal shadow ministry will meet today as it decides on the party's position on net zero emissions by 2050.
It comes after Liberal MPs and...
Australia and Indonesia to sign landmark security treaty
Australia and Indonesia have agreed to a historic bilateral security treaty.
The treaty will require both countries to consult on security regul...
Could Victoria's 'adult time' plan reduce youth crime?
"Adult Crime, Adult Time" was a policy that the Queensland LNP took to last year's state election and won.
Now, ahead of Victoria's state electi...
Spectacular spawning season begins on Great Barrier Reef
A spectacular display of nature is currently underway off the coast of Queensland.
The Great Barrier Reef has begun its annual spawn with trilli...
Israel takes step towards death penalty for terrorists
Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has passed the first reading of a bill allowing the death penalty for people convicted of deadly attacks on Israelis...
Trump sends world's biggest aircraft carrier to Caribbean
The United States has deployed the world's biggest aircraft carrier — the USS Gerald R. Ford — to the Caribbean.
It marks the largest American m...
Breakfast Wrap: Liberals converge on Canberra for net-zero talks
Liberal party members are gathering today in Canberra to discuss their energy and climate policies, in the first of a series of meetings this week aim...
Ancient eggshells and new research sheds new light on crocodiles
A new discovery has found crocodiles may have been hunting in the forests of modern Queensland up to 55 million years ago - a lot longer ago than prev...
Changing Australia: Michael Buckland and Amanda Green and the fight against CTE
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain condition that can cause problems with thinking and memory as well as personality behav...
Recovery efforts in Philippines following second typhoon in a week
Recovery efforts are ramping up across the Philippines after a second typhoon in one week has left 18 people dead and over 1.4 million people displace...
Greens question 'secret' talks with Nauru President in Canberra
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he met with Nauru's President David Adeang in Canberra, after the Pacific Island nation's leader made a...
Inquiry to examine 'weird' 2025 federal election
Every federal election in Australia is a snapshot in time.
But according to Labor MP Jerome Laxale, the 2025 election featured an unprecedented...
Liberal net zero debate 'not a referendum' on Ley's leadership: Blythe
Liberal party members are gathering today in Canberra to discuss their energy and climate policies... it's the first in a series of meetings this week...
Broken public housing policy not unfixable, former top judge says
How has the dream of owning a home become so intertwined with generating wealth, that it's led the system to failure, and affected now chronic demands...
Melbourne to attempt world record with an AC/DC twist
There will be an ambitious attempt in Melbourne today to break a world record for the most bagpipers ever playing at one time.
Organisers are h...
Controversy as Indonesian president arrives in Australia
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is in Canberra today for talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese - in his first visit to Australia since taki...
Te Pāti Māori MPs vow to appeal expulsion from party
The decision to expel two of New Zealand's Te Pāti Maori MPs has left the party in disarray.
Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris were dismiss...
Syria joins US-led coalition against Islamic State group
Ahmed Al-Sharaa has become the first Syrian leader ever welcomed to the White House, where he's held landmark talks with US President Donald Trump on...
Breakfast Wrap: The dismissal of Gough Whitlam, 50 years on
Coverage and analysis of national and international events.
Lessons 50 years on from the dismissal
Countless authors, journalists and academics over the decades have all had a crack at the retelling of the dismissal.
And with each year that go...
Changing Australia: Jennifer Hocking and finding the truth behind the Whitlam dismissal
Much of what we know about Gough Whitlam's dismissal is due to the tenacious work of historian Jennifer Hocking.
Gough Whitlam's son reflects on the dismissal
November 11, 1975 was an unprecedented day in federal politics.
It's Time: the story behind the election campaign song
Before Gough Whitlam won the 1972 election, ending a record 23 years of continuous Coalition government, there was a campaign song that dominated the...
Howard's memories of Whitlam's dismissal
On the day of the dismissal, John Howard was a junior shadow minister, under opposition leader Malcolm Fraser.
It was a turbulent introduction t...
Albanese on lessons from the Whitlam dismissal
It's been 50 years since Governor General Sir John Kerr dismissed Gough Whitlam... the country's 21st prime minister.
We're speaking to Anthony...
Aide-de-Camp to Governor General Sir John Kerr on the dismissal
On the 11th of November, 1975, Chris Stephens was a 30-year-old Army Captain. His job was Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General, Sir John Kerr.
...
How do constitutional lawyers remember The Dismissal?
On November 11th, 1975, Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, with opposition leader Malcolm Fraser appointed as careta...
Push for e-bike overhaul after fatal Queensland crashes
The boss of a major Australian bike company is calling for an urgent clampdown on e-bikes after a spate of fatal accidents involving children in Queen...
COP30 summit opens amid concerning warning
World leaders have gathered in Brazil for the COP-30 climate summit - 30 years after the first UN talks on global warming. Despite decades of pledges,...
How Australians remember The Dismissal
Leading up to the 50th anniversary of the dismissal of the Whitlam government, ABC Radio National Breakfast asked listeners to share their memories of...
Senate moves to end shutdown as Democrats split over deal
The US Senate has taken its first step towards ending the country's longest-ever government shutdown.
A small group of moderate Democrats broke...
Breakfast Wrap: Neo-Nazi protest outside state parliament shocks Sydney
NSW Police and the state government are reviewing how neo-Nazis were able to legally rally outside state parliament in Sydney on the weekend.
We...
Changing Australia: Magistrate Rose Falla and the Koori Courts
Tackling the over-representation of Indigenous Australians in jail is a huge challenge.
It's a complex issue with many underlying factors like t...
Australian talkback radio star John Laws dies aged 90
John Laws — one of the pioneers of Australian talkback radio — has died over the weekend at the age of 90.
Once described by former prime minist...