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

On this week’s News Time, we’ll play a game that’s saving a language from extinction, and we’ll journey deep into the jungle searching for something that humans haven’t seen for ten years! Then, we’ll blast off into space with some very green passengers in our Wow of the Week.

Quiz Questions

1. How long does a Test Match of cricket usually go for?

2. What did Macquarie Dictionary name as its "Word of the Year" for 2025? (Hint: it's actually two words!)

3. What did the Elders create to save their language from extinction?

4. How many hours did Deki trek, to find the rare flower?

5. What green plant was placed outside the International Space Station for nine months?

Bonus Tricky Question

What was the name of the charity that received all the leftover food?

Answers

1. Up to five days

2. AI slop

3. A smartphone game

4. 23 hours

5. Moss

Bonus Tricky Answer

OzHarvest