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• Breakfast Wrap: 2025 in sound

  The Breakfast Wrap takes a look back through the year in sound.As Radio National Breakfast winds up regular programming for the year, our team has compiled the moments that made 2025We'll also make sure you're across some of the news of the day. And don't miss the Breakfast Wrap right across summer on the ABC Listen app, presented by Lexie Jeuniewic.

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• Political panel: Travel entitlements and health funding

  Federal parliament may have risen for the year, but the government was fighting fires on two fronts this week.There's the ongoing health funding stoush with the states and territories, and controversy around travel entitlements and whether the rules should change.Guests: Anna Henderson, Chief Political Correspondent at SBS; Shane Wright, Senior Economics Correspondent at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald; Evelyn Manfield, Radio National Breakfast political correspondentProducer: Jason Whittaker

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• State and territory health ministers plead for more funding

  State and territory health ministers will meet with federal counterpart Mark Butler today — seeking to end a public war over hospitals and strike a long-term funding deal.Guest: Rachel Stephen-Smith, ACT Health MinisterProducer: Grace Stranger, Jason Whittaker

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• SA Premier hails social media ban a success despite teething issues

  Social media restrictions for Australian children aged under 16 have been in place for around 48 hours now - with the world watching how the experiment plays out.South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas is one of the architects of the ban - having commissioned the S-A state draft law that inspired the national ban back in 2024.

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• Parliamentary committee probes corruption watchdog

  A parliamentary committee has been probing the nation's corruption watchdog this week.In October, the ABC revealed National Anti-Corruption Commission boss Paul Brereton continued to advise the Afghanistan war crimes inquiry, despite assurances he had stepped away.Mr Brereton said his recusal from all defence corruption referrals was "unnecessary" — an argument his deputy commissioners have rejected.Helen Haines is the independent MP for Indi and the Deputy Chair of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Anti-Corruption Commission.Guest: Helen Haines, Independent Member for IndiProducer: Isadora Bogle

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