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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: 2025 in sound
The Breakfast Wrap takes a look back through the year in sound.
As Radio National Breakfast winds up regular programming for the year, our team...
Political panel: Travel entitlements and health funding
Federal parliament may have risen for the year, but the government was fighting fires on two fronts this week.
There's the ongoing health fundin...
State and territory health ministers plead for more funding
State and territory health ministers will meet with federal counterpart Mark Butler today — seeking to end a public war over hospitals and strike a lo...
SA Premier hails social media ban a success despite teething issues
Social media restrictions for Australian children aged under 16 have been in place for around 48 hours now - with the world watching how the experimen...
Parliamentary committee probes corruption watchdog
A parliamentary committee has been probing the nation's corruption watchdog this week.
In October, the ABC revealed National Anti-Corruption Com...
More than 3,000 aged care patients stuck in public hospital beds
The number of elderly Australians stranded in public hospital beds because they can't get the aged care support they need has seen a significant surge...
The Sounds of 2025
So much has happened in 2025, from elections around the country, to international conflicts - it's a year that will have long-lasting ramifications.Bu...
US plan to review travellers’ social media
Australians planning a trip to the U-S could soon face an examination of their social media accounts under changes ordered by the Trump administration...
Women denied sanitary products in NSW hospitals
Women across New South Wales say they're being denied sanitary products in hospitals - despite a pledge from the state's health department back in 202...
NATO Chief warns Europe could be Russia's next targert
The chief of NATO has urged allies to step up defence efforts to prevent a war waged by Russia, warning NATO and the European union could follow Ukrai...
Hundreds of thousands flee war-torn DRC despite US-brokered peace deal
About 200,000 people have fled their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in recent days, with dozens of civilians killed by Rwanda-backed re...
Breakfast Wrap: Anger at increasing Indigenous deaths in custody
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979/1980.New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows...
Great Barrier Reef explodes with life during mass coral spawning
One of the world's greatest natural wonders is underway: the synchronised spawning of coral on the Great Barrier Reef.
Dr Jen Matthews, a chemic...
Changing Australia: Ella Stratton and creating moments of joy for families hit by a child terminal or life-limiting illness
Warning: this interview includes discussions of child illness and death
Hunter was a baby when doctors said he wouldn't live past his first birt...
US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela
US President Donald Trump has announced the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a move analysts are warning is likel...
New Children’s Commissioner responds to Dodd inquest
From a childcare sector in crisis, to new social media restrictions, the safety of children has been dominating headlines in recent months.
That...
Indigenous deaths in custody reach record high
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1980.New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows 33 of...
Opposition criticises handling of federal health funding negotiations
Federal and state health ministers are meeting tomorrow amid a bitter public spat over funding.
State leaders are trying to hold the federal gov...
Aged care experts call for more beds to address hospital backlog
More than a thousand patients are stranded in New South Wales hospitals, with the state government saying that many of them are waiting for federally...
Thai-Cambodian fighting intensifies as ceasefire unravels
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has intensified, with both sides accusing each other of striking civilians.
Thailand says its tanks and j...
Exhibition celebrating history's greatest divas opens in Melbourne
From Maria Callas to Kylie Minogue - the new Australian Museum of Performing Arts in Melbourne has launched its debut exhibition DIVA, featuring the w...
Europe hits back at Trump
European leaders have hit back at US President Donald Trump after he labelled them "weak" while claiming European civilisation was being eroded by imm...
Zelenskyy rejects latest pressure to surrender territory to Russia
The leaders of Britain, France and Germany have held a call with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss Washington's latest peace efforts to end the w...
Breakfast Wrap: Social media ban comes into effect
As Australia's social media ban for under-16s comes into effect, we hear from one of the leading advocates for the ban, and the federal Coalition.
Young RFS volunteer recognised for outstanding service
Dozens of homes have been destroyed in bushfires across Tasmania and New South Wales in recent days, with one firefighter killed during prevention wor...
Changing Australia: Sam Berkovic and transforming the way we understand and treat epilepsy
Thousands of Australians live with epilepsy, but the cause of the neurological disorder has not been well understood.
In the 1990s, Laureate Pro...
AEMO scales back forecasts for wind farms, goes big on solar
Australia's energy market operator has extended its forecast for the end of coal power in the eastern states by 11 years, with electricity consumption...
Coalition wary of loopholes for big tech under social media ban
The federal government's social media ban begins today, with age verification introduced on various popular platforms.
The opposition supported...
Mother who lost son welcomes social media ban
A warning: this interview includes references to suicide and self-harm.
Mia Bannister lost her son, Ollie, to suicide when he was 14 years old a...
Mother who lost son to online bullying welcomes social media ban
A warning: this interview includes references to suicide and self-harm.
Mia Bannister lost her son, Ollie, to suicide when he was 14 years old a...
Defence Minister meets counterparts in the US
Federal government ministers have been meeting their US counterparts in Washington DC this week.
Discussions have centred around ways to improve...
Bed block surges in NSW as aged care, NDIS wait times blow out
Bed blocks in NSW hospitals have surged by 50 per cent as stranded patients wait for Commonwealth aged care and disability support packages.
Tha...
US National Security Strategy sparks anger in Europe
The White House has caused a stir in Europe this week following the release of its new National Security Strategy.
The document, which outlines...
Australia tops the moguls slopes in Ruka, Finland
Two months out from the Winter Olympics in Italy, Australia has a double act worth keeping an eye on.
Matt Graham and Jakara Anthony have claime...
Tracing Ukraine’s stolen children
At least 35,000 children are estimated to have been forcibly taken from Ukraine to Russia, where they are indoctrinated, militarily trained or put up...
Israeli forces raid UNRWA offices in East Jerusalem
The United Nations has condemned Israel after officials raided the headquarters of the UN's Palestinian relief agency, UNRWA, in East Jerusalem
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Breakfast Wrap: The battle for Hollywood
The battle for the future of Hollywood is heating up this morning after Paramount mounted a hostile bid worth US$108 billion for Warner Bros Discovery...
Barnaby Joyce joins One Nation weeks after leaving Nationals
Barnaby Joyce finally made his political future clearer yesterday, confirming he'll join Pauline Hanson's One Nation party and run for the Senate at t...
Changing Australia: Atticus Fleming and recreating conservation in Australia
Habitat loss, feral animals and the worsening impacts of climate change are all daunting prospects for Australia's conservationists.
Notorious paedophile 'could have been stopped' much earlier, review finds
A report that will "send a shiver up the spine of every Queensland parent," that's how the Premier David Crisafulli has described the findings into th...