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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: The seafarers stuck in the Strait of Hormuz
Whatever is going on in the Strait of Hormuz, tens of thousands of seafarers remain trapped, unable to transit the waterway.
We hear from one I...
MS advocate breaks record on Munda Biddi track
The Munda Biddi track in Western Australia is known as the world's longest off-road cycling trail an epic journey of more than a thousand kilometres f...
Changing Australia: Madonna Wild and creating new models to rehome animals
When Madonna Wild was a child, she was surrounded by animals — from kangaroos to a protective Great Dane.
It would fuse in her a love for wildli...
What housing economists are looking for in this budget
It's been widely reported that next week's federal budget will feature changes to the capital gains tax, negative gearing and the treatment of trust f...
Bragg says Coalition should revive 'FightBack!'
Another interest rate rise will hit maxed out borrowers - as the federal governments prepares a high-stakes budget.
$74 million funding boost to fight online extremism
Ahead of next week's budget, the federal government has announced it will spend 74-million-dollars over two years to set up a national centre to "dete...
WHO suspects rare form of transmission of cruise ship virus
The World Health Organisation says person-to-person transmission of the Hantavirus has likely occured on a cruise ship sitting off the Cape Verde coas...
RBA Governor's comments 'quite clear' on impact of government spending, economist says
RBA Governor Michele Bullock says the Reserve Bank remains focused on returning inflation to target, delivering another interest rate rise yesterday. ...
US and Iran exchange threats after attacks in Strait of Hormuz
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth insists the ceasefire with Iran is not over - despite more military exchanges in the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran...
Researchers warn of rise in illicit alcohol in liquor shops
A spate of arson attacks on licensed hospitality venues in Melbourne in recent weeks has Victoria Police investigating whether illegal alcohol is the...
Chalmers says budget will include fuel security measures
The Reserve Bank delivered another whack to borrowers yesterday, hiking interest rates another quarter of a percentage point - for the third time this...
Seafarers trapped in the Strait of Hormuz call for support
The US has launched what it's calling a humanitarian mission to protect freight ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
Project Freedom - as US President...
Breakfast Wrap: Why big tobacco was given a secret Senate hearing
The federal government and the Greens are demanding answers after a Liberal-led Senate inquiry allowed tobacco giant Philip Morris to deliver evidence...
Changing Australia: Hugh Taylor on eliminating trachoma
Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, and in Australia the burden has been felt largely in regional and remote Fi...
Changing Australia: Hugh Taylor and eradicating trachoma
Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, and in Australia the burden has been felt largely in regional and remote Fi...
Tehan supportive of government winding back tax discount for electric vehicles
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says a new agreement with Japan will help secure energy supply lines for Australia.
Mr Albanese met his counterp...
Anika Wells says intergenerational equity a 'crisper issue' than in 2019
The federal government is finalising the budget a week away from handing it down.
The Finance Minister Katy Gallagher says there will be quote...
Family of jailed Iranian Nobel laureate fear for her health
In Iran, at least 22 prisoners have been hanged in the last six weeks - according to the Center for Human Rights in Iran - including 10 people who wer...
NAB CEO calls for more government productivity
Borrowers are preparing for a possible interest rate rise today, which would be the third this year.
The predicted point 2.5 percentage point ri...
164 confirmed cases of diphtheria across Australia
Diphtheria cases are extremely rare in Australia.
But over the past month, cases of diphtheria have been rising in the Northern Territory and in...
Health organisations disappointed tobacco giant gave evidence in private
The federal government and the Greens are demanding answers after a Liberal-led Senate inquiry allowed tobacco giant Philip Morris to deliver evidence...
What attacks in the Strait of Hormuz could mean for global oil prices
The US military says it has fired on Iranian forces, sinking six small boats as it tries to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The US military also sa...
Will Trump's Project Freedom guide stranded Hormuz ships to safety?
Live fire near the Strait of Hormuz overnight has again demonstrated the fragility of a ceasefire between Iran and the United States.
Iran launc...
Breakfast Wrap: How Australia conquered curling
Is this Australia's Cool Runnings moment?
Australia's mixed team curlers Tahli Gill and Dean Hewitt have claimed world championship gold in Swit...
Changing Australia: Bliss Cavanagh and creating sensory spaces
Ever since she was a little girl, Bliss Cavanagh lost herself in art.
She was just six years old when symptoms of Tourette syndrome first appear...
Iran using executions as 'a tool for repression', former UN prosecutor says
The United Nations has warned civilians are being subjected to a range of human rights abuses with an internet crackdown continuing across the country...
Japan's PM visits Australia
Japan's first female Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is in Australia for high profile talks with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
It comes after f...
'Let the justice system take its course,' Julian Leeser on death of Kumanjayi Little Baby
The family of Kumanjayi Little Baby has called for calm and respect as the community moves into Sorry Business after the death of the five year old gi...
Community supporting family of Kumanjayi Little Baby, Alice Springs Mayor says
As mourners in the Northern Territory commence Sorry Business, the community in Alice Springs is still reeling from the death of 5-year-old Kumanjayi...
Australian teenagers access online anorexia 'coaches' despite social media ban
A warning, this next story contains reference to eating disorders and self-harm.
Australia may have a social media ban in place to protect chil...
Australia wins gold at world mixed pairs curling championships
For the first time ever, Australia has clinched gold at the Curling World Championships.
Mixed team curlers Dean Hewitt and Tahli Gill will be b...
Germany downplays US withdrawal of troops
Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius has sought to downplay the impact of the United States' decision to withdraw 5,000 troops from the country,...
Breakfast Wrap: Grief and anger in Alice Springs
As Alice Springs grieves the death of a five-year-old girl missing since the weekend, violence erupts outside the hospital where the accused killer is...
Police answer questions over response in Alice Springs
The Northern Territory Police Commissioner Martin Dole has responded to a listener on ABC Alice Springs questioning the police response to violence ou...
Friday political panel
From the release of the interim report from the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, to hot inflation figures - our Friday political...
Alleged killer of 5yo girl moved to Darwin after violent clashes outside hospital
Kumanjayi Little Baby's alleged killer Jefferson Lewis, 47, has been flown to Darwin after violent clashes outside the Alice Springs hospital he had b...
Sydney Rabbi wants greater focus on 'social cohesion' in Royal Commission
The royal commission into Anti-Semitism -- in the wake of the Bondi terror attack - has been welcomed by the Jewish community.
The commission ha...
Malarndirri McCarthy calls for calm in Alice Springs
Violence has erupted in Alice Springs overnight after the arrest of the alleged killer of a five-year-old girl.
47-year-old Jefferson Lewis is b...
NT Police call for calm as violence erupts following death of Kumanjayi Baby Girl
Northern Territory Police is calling for calm in Alice Springs after violence broke out in the wake of the death of a five year old girl.
47 yea...
Constrution industry faces significant squeeze as inflation bites
While the Iran war can take its fair share of blame for a spike in inflation, economists have warned building cost inflation is squeezing the property...