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From Monday, @PatsKarvelas will take over as host of @RNBreakfast.
Good luck, PK! 👏
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.@normanswan will today be appointed as a Member of the #OrderofAustralia! 👏
Norman has been a mainstay of #RN for over 30 years, and has become one of Australia's most respected and trusted voices on #health and #science.
Congratulations, Norman!
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On @RNBreakfast this morning...
@frankelly08: PM says technology, not taxation or carbon price, is the best way to bring our missions down. As a tech leader, do you agree with that?
@mcannonbrookes: No, I wouldn’t.
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@PatsKarvelas will take over from @frankelly08 as host of @RNBreakfast in 2022!
"I have huge shoes to fill coming after the remarkable Fran Kelly, and I am humbled to be the nation's morning broadcaster at this important time." — PK
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"My days presenting RN Breakfast are coming to an end. After 17 years it's time." - @frankelly08 @RNBreakfast
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"If I'm seen to be political by talking climate change, then what a shame for our democracy."
Former Commissioner of Fire and Rescue NSW, Greg Mullins, did not hold back this morning on #RNBreakfast @hamishNews @RNBreakfast
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That was @frankelly08's last @RNBreakfast, after 17 years.
"I've loved every moment of it with my heart and soul ... As I get ready to hang up the headphones today, I want to thank all of you, my early morning friends."
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Julian Assange is a journalist being prosecuted for journalism, lawyer Jen Robinson tells @GeraldineDoogue on @RNBreakfast ab.co/2MgdZle
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"If they can come for Julian, they can come for anybody in Australia."
@johnpilger tells @PhillipAdams_1 on @LNLonRN why he thinks Australians must push to #FreeJulianAssange
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The evidence shows school closures before students become infected is one of the most powerful non-pharmaceutical interventions that we can deploy @NAChristakis #RNSundayExtra ab.co/39SCLRg
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Today Rottnest Island, off Fremantle, is a popular holiday spot, but few realise the island's dark past as a prison and grave site for Indigenous men. ab.co/2Ekqedw
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Indian economist @ShamikaRavi is the go-to source for people in India trying to understand the COVID 19 impact in their country ab.co/2Xkl75c
#RNSundayExtra
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The little-known story of William Ah Ket, who fought racism as the first Chinese-Australian barrister ab.co/2C1SK2Y #RNHistoryListen
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In case you missed it, here's the audio of today's Roundtable discussion about the election campaign and media coverage, with Niki Savva, Greg Sheridan & @barriecassidy and host @richardaedy #RNSundayExtra
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Some of your best stargazing pictures. This one's taken in Margaret River, WA. #StargazingABC ab.co/2IMh07Z
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This morning @karamobrown and @tanfrance from @QueerEye dropped by @ABCRNTheHub ! So do they ever think about what becomes of the people they make over? #Queereye #StopEverything #TheHubRN
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China plans to plant 88 billion trees for its Green Great Wall, which will stretch for almost 5,000 kilometres in a bid to hold back encroaching deserts.
And it's not the only country fighting nature with nature ab.co/2BtEYmN @antonyjfunnell
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For those who have questions about whether the constitution is the right place for The Voice, @mdavisqlder and George Williams explain why they believe it is the best option for real change for Indigenous Australians. abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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In 1962 an Australian scientist wrote a bestseller which turned the tables on anxiety disorders. Her name was Dr Claire Weekes. ab.co/2BFwxVh @LNLonRN @PhillipAdams_1
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This Thanksgiving dish, yum yum salad, is "a mix of jello, pineapple, cream cheese, mini marshmallows, pecans, and shredded cheddar cheese". ab.co/2jg98jE
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Climate change splits the public into six groups. Understanding them is key to future action, writes @RebeccaHuntley2 ab.co/3aPNFrT
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'I’m a fan of science merely because it saved me.' @timminchin in concert and conversation ab.co/1SNFa2t
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Hanyu and his Fanyus: Adoration and obsession in the world of figure skating
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Courtney Ugle, a Noongar woman from Bunbury, loved football so much that every weekend, she’d catch a bus 200 kilometres to play. She taught @CSQuartermaine a lot about being a role model and pushing through adversity. #NAIDOC2018 #Becauseofherwecan
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The Gurkhas are respected warriors known for their slouch hats, curved kukri knives and motto "it is better to die than be a coward". Next week, they'll be protecting summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Singapore. ab.co/2JGmF36
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Tonight on #LateNightLive @PhillipAdams_1 speaks to the doyen of Australian investigative journalism Chris Masters PSM about his career & new book 'Flawed Hero' - Don't miss it.
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"I’m calling upon [@ScottMorrisonMP] to reflect upon the parable of the Good Samaritan which invited us as Christians to take care of the stranger in our land."
@KKeneally speaks to @hamishNews on @RNBreakfast.
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Former High Court judge Michael Kirby is set to marry Johan van Vloten - his partner of 50 years. He talks to @hughriminton. More: 📺 bit.ly/2GmH2kE 📻 ab.co/2X32RuW #RNSundayExtra
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.@frankelly08 wanted to do a duet on #ThePartyRoom, but @PatsKarvelas had a condition: it had to be #GeorgeMichael ab.co/2rEHtvJ
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What did @PatsKarvelas do before her first @RNBreakfast show this morning?
Call @frankelly08, of course!😆
Listen live: bit.ly/3ryVATD
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ABC Radio host Mark Colvin has died, aged 65. In 2014 he spoke to Julia Baird about life, happiness and beauty ab.co/2q4xvFZ
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Japan is preparing to restart commercial whaling after three decades.
@gpj_english @HisayoTakada told @RNBreakfast the government is giving money and political attention to promote the whaling industry and whale meat.
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Superstar physicist @bgreene is concerned about the state of basic scientific truths under a Trump administration ab.co/2k4Yrmo
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In other news, did you know the brain of an #octopus is mostly in its arms? And that they taste by touching things? @ABCscience editor Jonathan Webb (@jjbw) explains here: fb.watch/1y0IGDTyj-/
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From child soldier to lawyer. Deng Thiak Adut delivers the 2016 #AustraliaDay Address ab.co/1Jx1jAA
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How Big Dead Place, the 'WikiLeaks of Antarctica', shed light on life at McMurdo Station ab.co/2jgZVZ2
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A former police insider speaks out about Australia's data retention plans. ab.co/1MzeqPX #auspol
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"In Australia, between 30,000 and 40,000 horses are slaughtered each year. The biggest proportion of those horses ― up to 60 per cent, according to one RSPCA report ― is from the racing industry." @_BenMyers_ on the #MelbourneCup2018 ab.co/2zr7pju
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For the first time, over June 20 and June 21, we will devote an entire weekend to a celebration of books, readers and writing.
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has called on the Pope to sack Adelaide's Archbishop Philip Wilson. ab.co/2LszCLz
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"This isn't about drought. This is about cotton, about corruption, and about climate change."
Greens call for royal commission into Murray-Darling Basin ab.co/2H2UT0M @RNBreakfast
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Domestic violence is now the main cause of injury & death in women under 45 in Australia ab.co/1EDQ18r #dv
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"Unless someone in Treasury told us something wrong, the Prime Minister is clearly using figures which have not been costed by Treasury."
@SenatorWong says the Coalition's tax burden campaign is just "fear and smear" ab.co/2IcZoFZ @RNBreakfast #auspol
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"They racked up $1 trillion in debt and yet still we've got real wages going backwards," @JEChalmers tells @RNBreakfast. Hear more: ab.co/2QbzQi3 #Budget2021
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Who is @andy_park?
Well, he's not #HamishMacdonald, @normanswan, @GeraldineDoogue or @PhillipAdams_1...but he's here to lead us through 2022 on @RNDrive.
Tune in tonight on your radio or the ABC listen app.
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"Things could actually get worse rather than get better."
Fears for Australia's steadily declining environment ab.co/3j9w1m5
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Today marks @frankelly08's last day as host of @RNBreakfast.😢
Tune in on your radio or the ABC listen app to hear her farewell and send-off. We'll miss you, Fran!
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.@PhillipAdams_1 has hosted @LNLonRN for nearly 30 years.
At the 20-year mark, we dug out some of the very best interviews from the vault. They're worth revisiting as Phillip turns 80! ab.co/2XWQVy1 @LNLonRN
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Leading Indigenous filmmaker Rachel Perkins will give the 2019 ABC Boyer Lectures this November.
Her lectures will be titled The End of Silence.
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It's been a delight working with you Hugh, from all of those at RN who have had the pleasure!
And that’s a wrap!
After two really enjoyable years presenting #Sundayextra on @RadioNational, it is time to stop working seven days a week. Thanks to everyone who tuned in.
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Phillip Adams has always been insatiably curious. About everything.
As he turns 80, @PhillipAdams_1 talks to @rfidler about where curiosity has taken him ab.co/2XFE3s1 @LNLonRN @abcconvos
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"It was a catalogue of things he'd done for the ladies."
Shadow Minister for Women @tanya_plibersek told @RNBreakfast the Prime Minister's response to the #March4Justice protests "just missed the point entirely".
What do you think of the PM's response?
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Thousands of women have turned cities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales into rivers of green, white and violet to mark 100 years since the first women won the right to vote in the UK. ab.co/2JNSUNU
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It's the envy of libraries around the world but the National Library of Australia's digital treasure, 'Trove', needs financial help! @nlagovau D-G Marie Louise Ayres describes some of the NLA's physical and budgetary challenges #RNSundayExtra
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'Education is a fundamental right, to which I firmly believe we should be naturally entitled' ab.co/1s0M2tW
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Anh Do's portrait of Indigenous activist Jack Charles wins Archibald Prize People's Choice award ab.co/2xSuj2e
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Going to @VividSydney? @gillian_gilbert and @stephenpdmorris pick apart 5 @NewOrder classics ab.co/25BPraO
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It’s more than 30 years since most of us first heard about climate change. Meanwhile, we've had the 20 hottest years on record. Why has it been so hard to take action? @RichardAedy explores in our new 4-part podcast series Hot Mess: abc.net.au/radionational/pro… #RNHotMess
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How Harnaam Kaur has overcome bullying and prejudice and learnt to love her beard & herself ab.co/1GZdAto
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"The modelling for this is clear, schools and universities have to shut."
@normanswan speaks to @RNBreakfast about @imperialcollege research showing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus may need to last up to 18 months.
Hear more: ab.co/2x6NmcE
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Vincent Lingiari's grandson plans to give Gough Whitlam's family a handful of red desert sand ab.co/1t6It8H
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Happy 40th birthday @triplej. You're in our demographic now.
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From a young age @marcialangton knew she wanted to go to university.
"I discovered libraries when I was quite young... and every school I ever went to I found the school library and borrowed books and read them," she tells @PhillipAdams_1 on @LNLonRN
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Read our review of Warwick Thorton's Sweet Country, a film that makes the none-too subtle but important point that Australians idolise white outlaws and demonise black ones. ab.co/2mLHgXi
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We asked @leighsales @SummersAnne @clementine_ford @WainBright which woman changed the way they think for #IWD2017 ab.co/2myPhzm
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On Sunday Extra, can the public sector be a sexy, edgy, crazy bureaucracy? Economist and Professor at University College London, @MazzucatoM thinks it's worth considering. abc.net.au/radionational/pro…
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Cape York Indigenous community of Coen flips the roles in violent colonial photos ab.co/2uBqIWB
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Beatrix Potter was not only a successful author, but a pioneering mycologist too ab.co/1QjQ8wp
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What's holding the #MeToo movement back in Australia?
As founder @TaranaBurke explains on #StopEverything with @beverleywang and @mrbenjaminlaw, the movement is more complex than some advocates online realise. @ABCArts
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Lawyer Geoffrey Watson calls for a strong & independent federal anti-corruption commission. ab.co/1VmLnDt
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Would you want your driverless car to swerve to avoid pedestrians - even if it meant you could be injured? ab.co/2KNzqq6
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"This isn't just an Aboriginal story - this is an Australian story." Catch-up on the long conversation between Archie Roach and Jack Charles on Life Matters ab.co/2nkGZuC
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He's best known as a vampire, but Robert Pattinson shines in this gritty New York heist, says @jdrrr. ab.co/2ib2QVR
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#BobEllis has died. In 2014, he shared his 10 laws for life with @RNLifeMatters. ab.co/1ZVAqd2
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This is about Jesse Cox: A master storyteller, a bright spark and a dear colleague and friend ab.co/2BLkEfD
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A group that calls itself the Belarusian Cyber Partisans, have targeted the country’s railway system, to disrupt the movement of Russian troops inside Belarus.
On Sunday Extra @julesmorrow speaks to @yuliana_shem, spokesperson for @cpartisans.
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And on Monday @4Corners @SteveCannane investigates the extraordinary steps the Australian government has taken to prosecute "Witness K" and his lawyer Bernard Collaery
”One of the saddest episodes in Australian history” - after Australian troops helped secure freedom for Timor Leste, Australian spies were used to try to rip off the East Timorese on their oil and gas rights. abc.net.au/radionational/pro… via @RadioNational
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@yanisvaroufakis tells @LNLonRN he found the left's strategy of opposition to Macron "scandalous"
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Thousands of women have turned cities in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales into rivers of green, white and violet to mark 100 years since the first women won the right to vote in the UK. ab.co/2MicvEl
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Some argue religion is incompatible with science, but the father of the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest and the pioneer of modern genetics was an Augustinian monk. ab.co/2GTKrU7
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Joining @ArtsonRN as new host of #TheArtShow is broadcaster Namila Benson. She replaces Ed Ayres, who has decided to focus on presenting @ABCClassic’s Weekend Breakfast and writing a new book.
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Chef @adamliaw says tracing Australians' evolving relationship to certain foods shows which racist ideas we've moved on from - and which ones linger.
Hear more: abc.net.au/radionational/pro… #RN #RNBigIdeas @paulbarclay
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Round The Twist turns 30 and @DrLaurenCH looks back at the groundbreaking kids show with creator Paul Jennings.
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"An animal is a sensory-based thinker, not verbal. [It] thinks in pictures, thinks in sounds, thinks in smells," @DrTempleGrandin says.
How Temple Grandin's #autism gave her a 'cow's-eye view' of the world.
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Watch this and learn some Gadigal words. The words are from the language spoken by the first people of Sydney.
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Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on karma, the pandemic, and politics in India abc.net.au/radionational/pro… #RNSoulSearch
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