On this week's News Time we'll head to the Australian Open to meet some people making a racquet!

We’ll also meet an endangered parrot that’s in a total flap, and in our Wow of the Week, we’ll visit a supermarket that’s been quite wild and woolly lately!

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Quiz Questions

1. What was one of the most-borrowed books in Brisbane last year?

2. What is the name of Australia's grand slam?

3. Finish this sentence: The kākāpō is the world’s only flightless WHAT?

4. Where does all the money go that’s raised through auctioning lost luggage?

5. In which country was there a herd of sheep in a supermarket?

Bonus Tricky Question

The male kākāpō makes a booming noise that sounds like what?

Answers

1. WeirDo, Wings of Fire, or Cat Kid Comic Club

2. Australian Open

3. Parrot

4. Charity

5. Germany

Bonus Tricky Answer

A cello string being plucked.

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

In this special episode, our intrepid News Time host Ruby Cornish has some breaking news to share.