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Australian surfer Laura Enever took a wave in Hawaii that saw her set a new wave height record of 13.3 metres.

GUEST: Laura Enever, Surfer of the Year, Surfer Big Wave Challenge Awards

The Friday Wrap with Dr Craig Emerson, managing director of Emerson Economics, former federal Labor minister for trade and tourism and Karen Barlow, chief political correspondent for The Saturday Paper.

For decades, Norwegian students have been assessed twice a year on their personal order and social behaviour with the aim of fostering a respectful and orderly school environment. It’s a novel idea, but could it work here?

GUEST: Corey Bloomfield, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and the Arts, Central Queensland University

Pianist and composer Elio Villafranca describes the sights, sounds and smells of his home in Cuba.

Have you found yourself tuning into the news lately and thinking, “I’m glad I don’t live in America”?

A study of 1950s sugar rationing in Britain has provided a fascinating natural experiment, highlighting the impact of sugar at a young age on the risk of developing diabetes.

It’s a sad day for the ABC and for Australian journalism, veteran broadcaster Matt Peacock has died at the age of 72

AI might be the talk of the investment world right now, but its emergence in the world of online dating has thrown up some serious ethical issues.

Friday marks the start of three regional drug summits with drug experts warning Australia is dangerously close to the edge of another drug epidemic this time with synthetic opioids that are up to 50 times more potent than fentanyl.

What did the mother Superb Fairy-wren say to her egg? Prof. Sonia Kleindorfer discusses some of the new findings in communication between birds.

It produces an almighty amount of waste plastic, it’s equally loved and loathed by Australians but fair to say those feelings are divided pretty firmly down generational lines.

I’m talking about Halloween - which in case you missed it is today, October 31st.

Are you on board with Halloween, with the witches, ghosts and goblins, the trick or treating, or are you in the camp of Australians who decry it as a cultural import from the US we could do without.

Shareholder activists have failed in their bid to stop Woolworths sourcing farmed salmon from a Tasmanian harbour that is home to an endangered marine species.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has taken legal action against Optus claiming it sold products to hundreds of vulnerable consumers.

More than 120 civilians have been killed by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in a near-week-long massacre in the state of Gezira.

Could the NACC's first scalp be its own Commissioner?

Police in Shanghai have launched a crackdown against Halloween revellers. 

Lost Maya city rediscovered by accident 

Why can't women still get timely access to abortions in regional Australia?

Co-author of John Farnham's new autobiography 'The Voice Inside'' Poppy Stockell talks about their writing process and what she's learned about the Australian legend. 

Underlying inflation remains above the Reserve Bank's target band which means a rate cut this year is still unlikely. 

The Federal Government's Digital Transformation Agency has done the largest government trial in the world of Microsoft’s generative AI tool, Copilot. 

A lack of transparency and an infringement of freedoms and human rights have become the defining legacies of the government’s response to the pandemic that claimed the lives of thousands of Australians.

Genocide case against Israel ramps up while the state bans critical aid agency

Department store chain Myer has struck a deal with Premier Investments to buy its clothing brands in Australia and New Zealand.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has defended receiving dozens of free Qantas upgrades and his relationship with former Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce.

After being named by her grandmother, it seems only right that Jazzmeia Horn's path would eventually lead her to sing the genre of music in her name.

What is Trump's "little secret"?

Five US elections have seen the Electoral College override the popular vote.

In the Japanese election, the incumbent coalition government appears to have lost its parliamentary majority in the lower house.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party has governed Japan for much of the last 70 years, but it now will have to broaden its coalition if it wants to stay in charge.

Guest: 

Professor Emerita Donna Weeks, expert in Japanese politics at Tokyo's Musashino University. 

The new documentary 'The Pool' charts the comings-and-goings of those who swim at the famous Bondi icebergs sea pool and the community that has formed around it.

If you live in an apartment, where do you dry your laundry?

If you use the 3G network, here's how the shut down will work 

When it comes to transitioning the world to clean energy, coal is often demonised. But when politicians talk about gas, it's usually through a much rosier lens.

Conservationists have described a decision by China and Russia to block a global management plan for Antarctic krill as a 'major step backwards'. 

Was Senator Lidia Thorpe's grandstanding in Parliament a cry of frustration and the protest we had to have as a nation? And has Steven Miles clawed back enough ground in Queensland to defy the polls?

Back in 2018, the Australian cricket team were busted using sandpaper to tamper with the match ball, while playing a test in South Africa. 

Musician Van Walker shares his songwriting method and why it's somewhat like fishing.  

Young drivers continue to be over-represented in road trauma statistics, and also have a significantly higher risk of death relative to the number of kilometres they drive. 

This has prompted calls from experts and communities around Australia to implement intensive driver education courses in the secondary school curriculum, and to introduce passenger restrictions for P-plate drivers.

GUEST: Paul Morris, former race car driver and now driving instructor, and Director of Norwell Motorplex

The ghost of Allan Joyce has failed to leave the Qantas hanger it appears, today the board was again quizzed on the former CEO’s sizable departure pay packet at the company’s AGM. 

How the US election could affect the climate you live in 

Artificial intelligence is being used by Australia’s major banks with things like home loan approvals and document verification…NAB apparently uses AI to analyse the ‘emotional sentiment’ of customer phone calls.

Could Korean culture be for this generation what all the American rock and roll, coca-cola and cars were for the boomer generation?

Have you ever read a book that has made you feel a little less lonely in this increasingly isolated world?

Senator Lidia Thorpe clarifies oath blunder as a grammatical mistake  

The U.S. has reported that 3,000 North Korean troops have been deployed to military locations in Eastern Russia, potentially to join Russia in combat against Ukraine.

Scientists to drill the fault zone behind the 2011 Japan earthquake 

Seventy-five years after George Orwell published his infamous novel 1984, the threat of an all-seeing Big Brother is closer to reality than fiction when it comes to thousands of Australians subject to virtual workplace monitoring.

Debates over climate change and ocean protection are likely to dominate this week's Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa. 

All 56 commonwealth member nations are expected to endorse a landmark declaration to make sweeping commitments on ocean protection.

King Charles will also be attending the summit, with discussions about  colonialism, slavery and the commonwealth's roots in the British Empire all expected to get a mention.

How US weapons are being used in strikes on schools in Gaza

A new book looks at the cultural impact that the cooking and recipes section of the Australian Women's Weekly magazine had on our national identity.