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RN Drive takes you behind the day’s headlines, with an engaging mix of current affairs, analysis, arts and culture from across Australia and around the world.

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RN Drive takes you behind the day’s headlines, with an engaging mix of current affairs, analysis, arts and culture from across Australia and around the world.

    Jurassic Park comes down under

    Jurassic Park comes down under

    Hard to believe it’s been 30 years since Jurassic Park first hit our screens.

    It was a big budget classic, and yet another box office hit for its creator Steven Spielberg.

    But now a group of diehard Jurassic Park super fans are slowly but surely recreating the film, using a combination of ingenuity and sheer determination to recreate an altogether different version of Spielberg’s 1993 hit film.

    • 6 min
    Australia could play a key role: what a key Paris Agreement negotiator thinks about our climate future

    Australia could play a key role: what a key Paris Agreement negotiator thinks about our climate future

    What does one of the key negotiators of the 2015 Paris agreement think about where we are and where we could be?

    • 12 min
    IDF begins to evacuate Palestinian civilians out of Rafah

    IDF begins to evacuate Palestinian civilians out of Rafah

    Israel’s military has started moving Palestinian civilians out of Rafah in southern Gaza, ahead of an expected ground invasion.

    • 9 min
    Aliens on Earth: Secrets of the Octopus

    Aliens on Earth: Secrets of the Octopus

    Humans have always been fascinated by Octopus. They're littered through cultural history and yet we still don't fully understand them and their intelligence. A new docu-series aims to understand a little bit more.

    • 11 min
    The growing power of the youth vote

    The growing power of the youth vote

    Changes to HECS and more financial support to some university students are among the latest round of budget pre-announcements unveiled by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers this week.

    Payments to help students with so called  'placement poverty' are aimed at addressing a chronic shortage of teachers, nurses and social workers.

    But there's plenty of politics behind the policy ahead of a federal election next year

    • 6 min
    $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' in HECS overhaul

    $3 billion in student debt 'wiped out' in HECS overhaul

    Changes to HECS and more financial support to some university students are among the latest round of budget pre-announcements unveiled by the Treasurer Jim Chalmers this week.

    • 13 min

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