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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 has compiled the moments that made 2025We'll also make sure you're across some of the news of the day. And don't miss the Breakfast Wrap right across summer on the ABC Listen app, presented by Lexie Jeuniewic.
Federal parliament may have risen for the year, but the government was fighting fires on two fronts this week.There's the ongoing health funding stoush with the states and territories, and controversy around travel entitlements and whether the rules should change.Guests: Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent at SBS; Shane Wright, Senior Economics Correspondent at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald; Evelyn Manfield, Radio National Breakfast political correspondentProducer: Jason Whittaker
State and territory health ministers will meet with federal counterpart Mark Butler today — seeking to end a public war over hospitals and strike a long-term funding deal.Guest: Rachel Stephen-Smith, ACT Health MinisterProducer: Grace Stranger, Jason Whittaker
Social media restrictions for Australian children aged under 16 have been in place for around 48 hours now - with the world watching how the experiment plays out.South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas is one of the architects of the ban - having commissioned the S-A state draft law that inspired the national ban back in 2024.
A parliamentary committee has been probing the nation's corruption watchdog this week.In October, the ABC revealed National Anti-Corruption Commission boss Paul Brereton continued to advise the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, despite assurances he had stepped away.Mr Brereton said his recusal from all defence corruption referrals was "unnecessary" — an argument his deputy commissioners have rejected.Helen Haines is the independent MP for Indi and the Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission.Guest: Helen Haines, Independent Member for IndiProducer: Isadora Bogle
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 in the past three months.That's according to new data released by state and territory governments as they prepare to face off today in negotiations with the Commonwealth on a new hospital funding deal.Guest: Mark Butler, Minister for Health, Ageing and DisabilityProducer: Isadora Bogle
So much has happened in 2025, from elections around the country, to international conflicts - it's a year that will have long-lasting ramifications.But, through it all, there have been many moments which have brought us all together. Here's the year in sound, the highs and the lows of 2025.
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.Travellers from 42 countries - who are permitted to enter the U-S without a visa - will be asked to disclose five years' worth of social media history.
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 2022 to provide free period products for those who need them.Wollongong woman Samantha Bruce says she was denied a tampon or pad during one hospital stay earlier this year, an experience faced by one in ten women -- according to research by the not-for-profit group, Share the Dignity.
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 Ukraine.Mark Rutte's comments come as talks continue across Europe and the U-S to try and break a negotiating deadlock in the Russia-Ukraine war.
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 rebels - in the country's east.M-23’s latest offensive comes despite a U.S.-mediated peace agreement -- which was signed last week by the Congolese and Rwandan presidents in Washington.
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1979/1980.New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows 33 of the 113 people who died in police or prison custody in the last financial year were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.Then, 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 likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and Caracas. Meanwhile European leaders have hit back at Mr Trump after he labelled them "weak" while claiming European civilisation was being eroded by immigration. We'll hear from the Vice President of the European Parliament.And staying overseas and fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has intensified, with both sides accusing each other of striking civilians.Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.
One of the world's greatest natural wonders is underway: the synchronised spawning of coral on the Great Barrier Reef.Dr Jen Matthews, a chemical ecologist and marine biochemist at the University of Technology Sydney, has been watching the event up close.Producer: Pip CookGuest: Dr Jen Matthews, a chemical ecologist and marine biochemist at the University of Technology Sydney
Warning: this interview includes discussions of child illness and deathHunter was a baby when doctors said he wouldn't live past his first birthday.He defied expectations.In fact, Mum Ella Stratton had 12 years with Hunter, and now she's determined to help other parents who face the same path.
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 likely to further inflame tensions between Washington and CaracasThe US has been building up the largest military presence in the region in decades, launching a series of deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.
From a childcare sector in crisis, to new social media restrictions, the safety of children has been dominating headlines in recent months.That makes it a big job for the new National Children's Commissioner Deb Tsorbaris who has just taken the reins from Anne Hollonds for the next five years.
Australia has recorded the highest number of Indigenous deaths in custody since 1980.New data from the Australian Institute of Criminology shows 33 of the 113 people who died in police or prison custody in the last financial year were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.Guest: Lidia Thorpe, independent Senator for VictoriaProducer: Isadora Bogle
Federal and state health ministers are meeting tomorrow amid a bitter public spat over funding.State leaders are trying to hold the federal government to promises on hospital funding levels, aged care and disability support, while the Commonwealth argues states need to rein in their costs.Guest: Anne Ruston, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged CareProducer: Isadora Bogle
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 funded aged care or disability support.The ANZSGM President, Sue Kurrle, warns that nationwide bed blocks require more residential aged-care beds, not simply extra home-care packages. Highlighting the complexity of a system funded by both the Commonwealth and the states and territories.
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has intensified, with both sides accusing each other of striking civilians.Thailand says its tanks and jets have hit Cambodian military sites, including a casino complex used for weapons storage.
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Maybe we put weapons on Mexico from China and Russia to learn about senseless wars.
Thank you for giving an interview to a moran. Bring him back again so we can enjoy the graves extending even more in Ukraine while he is safe at home in the U.S.
You wanted to do the interview because you want to say Putin is a liar. A dictator. And gone crazy. You deserve the shit. Ukraine is not corrupt, right? They speak gospel.
This is your man, Australia. He is worth a try .
You mean elites will lose money on the remote control in their palms of their hands to adjust the sun, the wind, the rain, the moon, the stars, the whole weather. They have the remote control and not the universe
Is this what it is?
Garbage
You still got your Al Gore mask on from a century ago
young people can't afford to buy homes, and babies and young kids need early learning/schools in proximity to stable longterm housing.
Garbage
18 months? What is next 4 minutes?
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In Death Valley, California. U S A
Garbage. None of you are Trump. You all work for your masters. You will get rotten eggs thrown at you. None of you are worth going to jail for. Lightweights.
The guest is a coward. Sending other people to die. There is no way Russia is going to be defeated. That is the reality.
Australia is a dog to America. The United Stares created the threat, then got the other two drag into something they were not to be involved in the first place. Fear. China China China. Russia. Russia. Russia Nearly a thousand military bases all over the world and surrounding countries America does not have control over. Australia, you did not build air defence before. Now you build them now against hypersonic missiles. Do you like fetching the stick back & forth from a command from your master.
Stage my rear end.
The 5 eyes nations have no problem surrounding Russia or China. Why the concern?
There is no one else. The most popular ones are dead or are thrown in jail? Garbage. I hope both of you playing stupid are proud of yourself. We are here because people like being mouthpiece of real evil. Like Putin is evil, and we are so good like America and N.A.T.O.
You mean what the Western countries have been doing for decades to the people of Africa stealing and leaving their garbage at the same time.