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• Breakfast Wrap: Smoking rate data exposes illicit tobacco challenge 17.07.2026 24min

  We'll unpack new data showing the challenge ahead on the illicit tobacco trade, and dive into extraordinary comments made by Senator Pauline Hanson on Tommy Robinson's podcast.  And we'll cap the week marking 60 years of Play School with one of the show's most iconic presenters Benita Collings.  Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.
• Benita Collings reflects on 60 years of Play School 17.07.2026 7min

  Play School has passed through generations like a treasured family heirloom and tomorrow marks 60 years since the program turned Big Ted, Jemima and Humpty into household names 
• One Nation takes a dip as Angus Taylor 'rules out' deal 17.07.2026 15min

  Our Friday political panel discuss the week that was.
• Unions demand BHP 'come to the table' amid industrial dispute 17.07.2026 6min

  Australia's largest export facility lost tens of millions of dollars after hundreds of workers walked off the job yesterday. The industrial action follows months of stalled negotiations, despite BHP reporting record iron ore production.
• 'Un-Australian' Senator Hanson Young on Pauline Hanson appearing on Tommy Robinson podcast 17.07.2026 5min

  During her trip to the UK, Pauline Hanson appeared on far-right activist Tommy Robinson's podcast. 
• Butler calls on states to 'lift their efforts' combatting illicit tobacco 17.07.2026 8min

  Despite the proliferation of illegal tobacco, new national data shows that rates of smoking have fallen to a historic low in Australia.
• Experts warn Australia faces critical gaps in domestic violence data 17.07.2026 4min

  The deaths of four women in four days have again put Australia's domestic and family violence crisis under the spotlight.
• Israeli parliament set to dissolve for October election 17.07.2026 8min

  The election will be the first to be held on schedule in four decades.
• What does Iran want from renewed hostilities? 17.07.2026 7min

  Kuwait says it's responding to drone attacks from Iran as the Iranian-backed Houthi group in Yemen vows to target Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
• Australians smoking less, but data shows 'changing illicit market', ACOSH says 17.07.2026 6min

  The Australian Council on Smoking & Health say the latest data shows both 'good things' and 'warning signs.' 
• Breakfast Wrap: Hanson's controversial "fact-finding" mission with Britain's far-right 16.07.2026 24min

  Coverage and analysis of national and international events.
• Argentina to face Spain in World Cup final 16.07.2026 6min

  Argentina are through to the final after a thrilling late game come back against England in Atlanta.
• Changing Australia: Sharon Lewin and fighting infectious diseases 16.07.2026 14min

  As the COVID pandemic bore down and Australians looked to experts for answers, one name you might remember is Professor Sharon Lewin.
• Australia's largest export facility to go on strike 16.07.2026 6min

  Union members at BHP's Port Hedland iron ore operations will launch an 8-hour work stoppage.
• Australia to toughen modern slavery rules 16.07.2026 8min

  According to the Global Slavery Index, an estimated 50 million people are living in modern slavery.
• Barnaby Joyce defends Hanson's decision to meet with far-right activist Tommy Robinson 16.07.2026 10min

  Pauline Hanson met with Tommy Robinson during her visit to the UK, for an interview that is yet to be released. 
• Ruston: govt needs to admit aged care reform implementation 'wrong' 16.07.2026 6min

  The outgoing Inspector General of Aged Care warned in some instances, the way government changes to the system are being implemented is "causing harm."
• The only place in Australia you can watch The Odyssey in 70mm IMAX 16.07.2026 5min

  Christopher Nolan's adaptation of Homer is the first to be shot entirely using 70-millimetre film on IMAX cameras.
• Hanson meets with far-right activist Tommy Robinson in UK 16.07.2026 8min

  What lessons could Senator Hanson be hoping to learn from Britain's notorious far-right activist?
• Two fatal ICE shootings spark outcry in US 16.07.2026 7min

  An agent fatally shot 26-year-old Colombian national Joan Sebastian Guerrero near his home in Maine on Monday. He was living in the US legally.