Squiz Kids

Your daily kids news podcast.

Bravery medal for WA teen; France’s school kids take to the streets; Fake health advice online; and the alligator who thinks he’s Elvis.

Austin Applebee was just 13 when he raised the alarm that saved his stranded family. Now he and his mum have received bravery awards.

Hundreds of French schools have closed as students join protests over education funding.

A sunbaking bird, an ambushing squirrel and an alligator apparently channelling Elvis. Welcome to the Comedy Wildlife Awards.

AI-generated “doctors” are appearing online promoting bogus health treatments and trying to grab people’s money and credit-card details.

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched and hosted by Bryce Corbett

Your daily kids news podcast.

Brisbane let the bird out of the bag; birthday buddies turn 227; 57 new sea creatures; and a teen artist takes a title!

Oops! Brisbane 2032 accidentally spoiled its own surprise when the finished Olympic and Paralympic designs appeared online early.

As the Nobel Prizes are announced, three scientists have scored one of science’s biggest honours for extraordinary brain research using light.

The deep ocean has delivered another monster surprise: 57 species previously unknown to science and a seacucumber nicknamed Loki.

At just 17, Jazz Lancaster Merton has been crowned Australia’s Portrait Artist of the Year!

Squiz Kids Shortcut to the Nobel Prizes

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Researched and hosted by Christie Kijurina

It has a Spanish name that means “the little boy”... scientists can spot it forming from space... and it can affect everything from anchovies to Australian bushfire weather.

In this Squiz Kids Shortcut, Christie and Bryce dive into the giant Pacific Ocean climate pattern known as El Niño.

With a little help from Bryce’s highly scientific bathtub experiment, we’ll find out what El Niño actually is, why warm water sloshing around the Pacific can change where rain falls, and how scientists use satellites, ocean buoys and weather models to watch it unfold.

We’ll also discover why El Niño can mean drier conditions for parts of Australia, heavier rain in other parts of the world, and big changes for fish, food and farming.

Listen carefully. There’s a S’Quiz at the end!

For the full episode transcript, click here.

Researched by Christie Kijurina

Hosted by Bryce Corbett and Christie Kijurina

The 2026 Nobel Prize winners start being announced tomorrow,
so we’ve found the perfect episode in the Squiz Kids Vault.

Why are prizes for discoveries, writing and peace named after the man who invented dynamite? Meet Alfred Nobel, hear about some extraordinary winners, including Marie Curie and Malala Yousafzai, and discover the wonderfully strange research celebrated by the Ig Nobel
prizes. Yes, there’s an upside-down rhino involved.

It’s an explosive story with a S’Quiz at the end!

Nobel Prize Mix and Match

MLK Speech

Could an evil supervillain erase every photo, message and high score on your phone with one enormous magnet? ZAP! It might work in the movies, but what would happen in real life?

Ten-year-old Audrey from Naremburn wants to know whether a magnet can really erase a phone’s memory. Christie investigates how old cassette tapes, floppy disks and computer hard drives stored information using magnetism, why modern phones use something completely different called flash memory, and what a powerful magnet can interfere with inside your phone.

It’s a magnetic mystery with a surprising answer, and some very good news for all your favourite photos.