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!

If you'd like to be a News Time Listener Legend, all the details are here.

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.

While we warm up the News Time machine for 2026, we've been looking back at some favourite stories from 2025. This News Time episode is all about amazing animals.

You’ll hear about a groovy seal, some helpful hounds, and a law-breaking duck!

Plus, keep an eye on your News Time feed for a very special episode next week! You won't want to miss it.

As we begin a brand new year, our intrepid host Ruby takes a look back at her favourite stories of 2025.

It's getting very close to the end of the year, so we're looking back at five of our favourite good news stories from 2025.

If you’ve listened to News Time before, you’ll know that we end each week’s countdown with our Wow of the Week.

Today’s episode is 100% Wow. It’s WowFest 2025! A countdown of five amazing stories this year that made you go... 'wow!'

On this week’s News Time, we’ll head to the desert to dig up a haul of significant artefacts. Then, we’ll hear from a News Time listener with a truly life-saving message.

And, in our Wow of the Week, we’ll blast off to Mars for some rather shocking space news.

Quiz Questions

1. How old do Australians now need to be to open a social media account?

2. What is Rosie asking grown-ups of News Time listeners to do?

3. What is the name given to the tools the archaeologists found?

4. Who is the last dog on Christmas Island?

5. What is the name of the rover on Mars?

Bonus Tricky Question

Why are dogs not allowed on Christmas Island?

Answers

1. 16

2. Donate blood, platelets or bone marrow

3. Tulas

4. Shiloh the chocolate labrador

5. Perseverance

Bonus Tricky Answer

To protect Christmas Island's threatened species