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Every weekday morning, RN Breakfast provides the most comprehensive coverage and analysis of national and international events on Australian radio. Hosted by one of our country’s most respected and experienced journalists, Patricia Karvelas, the program is the show informed Australians wake up to.

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RN Breakfast, 5th July 2024

Coverage and analysis of national and international events.

Published: with Patricia Karvelas

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Warning over powerful drugs

Researchers and frontline workers are raising the alarm over powerful drugs showing up in Australia for the first time after a series of overdose deaths.

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A bag of brown substance.
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds

Voters head to polls for UK general election

The final votes are being cast in the general election that is expected to see Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party take power. Guest: Richard Edwards, Political reporter, BBC Radio York

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A general view of the door for Number 10 Downing Street (Getty Images: Oli Scarff)

Senator Fatima Payman on quitting the Labor party

After a tumultuous week beset by rumours Senator Fatima Payman has quit the Labor party. Fatima Payman said she was exiled by her party and couldn't in good conscience remain in the party. 

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Senator Fatima Payman stands in front of a media pack in Parliament House to announce she's quitting the Labor Party
Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds

The Australian government's 'top-secret' deal with Amazon

The Australian government is teaming up with Amazon to establish a top secret data cloud to store Australia's classified military and intelligence information.

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A man leans to work on a large server, standing in an aisle of servers with cables running everywhere.
Duration: 5 minutes 36 seconds

'The Visitors' re-imagines the First Fleet arrival, begins regional tour

Imagine what Indigenous Australians thought when they saw the First Fleet land in Botany Bay? Jane Harrison's The Visitors re-imagines the 1788 arrival and now Wesley Enoch is taking his production on the road across regional Australia.

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Duration: 6 minutes 12 seconds

How to make a guilt free decision in the milk aisle

The debate around cow's milk versus plant milk is divisive, on all fronts.  Which one is healthiest, which has the most nutrients, and which is best for the environment? Professor Clare Collins has some guilt-free answers for the milky debate. 

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milk for $3.10 at coles supermarket
Duration: 6 minutes 41 seconds

The founder of the World Wide Web now wants to fix it

In 1989, computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee was quietly working away in his physics laboratory trying to find a solution for his colleagues to be able to easily share information with each other.

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Duration: 8 minutes 33 seconds

Katy Gallagher: "If I couldn't stick with the Labor caucus I would leave the Parliament, that's not the decision Senator Payman has made"

The turmoil surrounding the now-former Labor Senator Fatima Payman has dominated a week the government had hoped to spend talking about its cost of living measures.

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Katy Gallagher looks away from the camera with a serious expression on her face.
Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds

'The nation has spoken': Fmr Tory minister reacts to Labour landslide

Exit polls in the UK suggest that British Labour is on track for a landslide win - and a humiliating wipeout for the conservative party. With voting now finished, Labour appears to have won a whopping majority of around 170 seats.

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Two men looking at each other.
Duration: 11 minutes 48 seconds

Politics with David Speers and Samantha Maiden

Political Editor for news.com.au Samantha Maiden and ABC Political Lead and host of Insiders on ABC TV David Speers join RN Breakfast to discuss the latest developments in federal politics.

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Birds fly out the front of Parliament House
Duration: 7 minutes 16 seconds

North Sydney Bears, AFL and Netball- Sport with Warwick Hadfield

In rugby league, are we about to see the return of one of the sport's foundation clubs, North Sydney? In the AFL, two foundation clubs in a must-win blockbuster the MCG tonight, Collingwood and Essendon.

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Florimo thanks the Bears faithful
Duration: 4 minutes 3 seconds

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