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Diana JenkinsCommercial partnerships editor

Diana Jenkins is a journalist and editor with 15 years experience. Currently a commercial partnerships editor in group editorial, Diana has written across the News Corp Australia stable and has an incurable newsprint nature.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, JANUARY 19. 2024. Generic economic images in Melbourne. Centre Place. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

‘Appalled’: This is what’s wrong with Gen Z

An ordinary day in Sydney has exposed how Australia’s youngest service workers have a lot to learn about doing their jobs well.

SA News

UNDER EMBARGO10-year-old Jillian Strong at her Bellbowrie home, Tuesday, September 17, 2024 - Picture: Richard Walker

New Spelling Bee champs crowned

After over 70,000 student registrations, three riveting rounds and every state and territory in Australia joining the hive, it’s time to meet the national champions of the 2024 PM’s Spelling Bee.

VIDEOTasmania

EMBARGOED FOR PM SPELLING BEE STORY UNTIL SUNDAY 1st. SEPTEMBER. National state and territory finals story in the Sunday.Perfect score kid. Serpell Primary School student Kyle Hu 10, topped the country in the Years 3-4 Green level category of the school round of the PM's Spelling Bee and has advanced to next week's state and territory finals, representing Victoria. He scored 30/30. Kyle surrounded by some of the words he studied. Picture: David Caird

Spelling Bee’s ‘perfect score kids’

The 2024 PM’s Spelling Bee saw a record-breaking 70,557 student registrations – now 4500 of them head to finals. See the top state and territory results.

Parenting

EMBARGO - FOR SUNDAY TELEGRAPH. CHECK WITH JEFF DARMANIN BEFORE USE. Prime MinisterÃs Spelling Bee preview. Jules Robinson of MAFS fame with her son Oliver, 3, and husband Cam Merchant at their home in Cromer. Jules recently released her first book, Ask Jules, which gives frank and funny advice. Wednesday 07/08/2024. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

Why Jules Robinson wants ‘more’ for her boys

Jules Robinson has welcomed son #2 with hubby Cam Merchant just months after launching her first book Ask Jules. Now they’re renovating — but their next project together might surprise you.

Education

KIDS NEWS: 2023 Prime Minister's Spelling Bee national champion in the Green category (Years 3-4) Samuel Wright, 9, hails from Providence Christian College in Perth. Picture: Philip Gostelow

Kids go for gold in PM’s Spelling Bee

More than 35,000 Aussie students have been registered to take part in the Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, as the mother of last year’s champion reveals how taking part in the competition helped her son.

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Scott Pape Sunday column. Picture: Jason Edwards

‘Absolutely vital’ tool Scott Pape wants kids to have

Scott Pape and other financial experts believe Aussie students need a vital tool as Gen Alpha’s digitally-led lives make them exposed to more threats.

VIDEONational

Embargoed for the editorial launch of the Prime Minister's Spelling Bee, Sunday 21 July, please DO NOT USE. We have permission for ONE USE ONLY, these images are ONLY to be used in relation to Nundah State School's hosting of the PM's visit for the 2024 Bee launch.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Nundah State School students Rohan Bishnoi, 11, year 6; Matilda Sedgman, 8, year 3; Zoe Caporale, 10, year 5; Avhi Hejeebu, 11, year 6; and Evie Sedgman, 11, Year 6; Prime Minister's Spelling Bee launch. Picture: Liam Kidston

Albanese launches fourth PM’s Spelling Bee

The fourth annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee opens Monday as the PM rallies Australian kids to take part, as technology changes the world.

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DAILY TELEGRAPH. EMBARGOED FOR SUN 21 JULY, DO NOT USE PRIOR. Preview for the Prime MinisterÃs Spelling Bee. 2Day FM radio hosts Dave ÃHughesyÃ Hughes and Erin Molan pose on the stationÃs balcony at World Square. Monday 15/07/2024. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

Is English down the ‘skibidi toilet’?

Erin Molan and Hughesy admit to being confounded by the TikTok and YouTube slang that has captivated Gen Alpha even as experts worry about literacy levels.

Lifestyle

Cathy Freeman powers out of the starting blocks. 400m final. Day 10. 2000 Olympic Games. Sydney Olympics.

How to ditch your feed, find your flow

Olympic champions and other peak performers are elsewhere at the height of their powers, a place called the zone, a fourth dimension ‘flow’ state that’s there for the taking with these hacks

EXCLUSIVEArts

Launch of the 2024 Short Story competition for Kids News. Winner Everest Song, Grade 2 at Serpell Primary School, used a software program called Midjourney to create an image to accompany his short story. Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Comics to the rescue for young readers

Comics and graphic novels are a long way from the underground, with new data revealing them as the caped crusaders of children’s book sales, as 2024 Kids News Short Story Competition launches.

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