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ABC Listen. Hello, my friends, my name is Ruby and you are listening to News Time.
Hello. Hey, Ruby. With your help, I'll be counting down five of the best news stories this week from around Australia and around the world.
We'll visit the Olympic Games in Paris.
We'll take a tour around some schools across Australia.
And we're going to finish with a ten -legged mystery for our...
Wow of the week. Yes, you've got it.
What do you think? Are you ready?
Let's do it. Story number five.
The Olympic Games are almost over and hundreds of millions of people around the world have been tuning in to watch their favourite athletes go for gold.
Which exciting bits did you see?
Gymnastics. I love when they went on the bus.
The diving. The diving and they did cool tricks in the air and then they dived back in.
I liked the artistic swimming because they all went underwater at the same time and then they would kick, kick, kick, kick.
They had to wear clicks on their noses.
Nicola Ollie Slagas was good at the high jump.
Jess Hox. Oh, so cool.
Oh, so cool. Nice. We've been cheering on the Aussie team as they achieve amazing things.
Team captain Jessica Fox won not one but two gold medals for kayaking and canoeing.
A few days later, her sister Noemi won a gold medal too.
And it was a family celebration for Saya Sakaki -Barrar.
She won a gold medal for BMX bike riding and she dedicated the win to her brother.
Arisa True won gold in skateboarding at just 14 years old, our youngest medalist ever.
And Keegan Palmer won skateboarding gold in the men's comp the very next day.
Our Aussie swimmers, including Ariane Titmus, Kaylee McEwen, Molly O 'Callaghan and Cameron McEvoy, won heaps of medals in all different swimming races.
I just hope they've got enough room in their luggage to bring all those medals back to Australia.
And that is just to name a few.
Because there's something for everyone.
We've also been cheering on athletes and sports people from lots of different countries, watching people proudly representing their nations.
Countries including the Little Island of St Lucia and the even smaller island of Dominica have won their first ever medals in the Olympic Games.
There's so much to celebrate.
If you and your family have been loving all the sporting fun and don't want it to end, I've got some good news for you.
The Paralympic Games, which is like the Olympics for people with disability, is coming up very soon.
Eva Garcia recently started Grade 7 at Beringa State Secondary College on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
Eva is legally blind, so lots of the learning material the teachers had prepared for the year ahead, it was going to be tricky for Eva to use it.
Things like worksheets and lessons written on whiteboards.
As soon as they heard that Eva was coming along, some of her teachers -to -be enrolled themselves in a course to learn braille.
They use these special little bumpy thingies.
Essentially little dots that represent letters and they can be found on signs and very important signs like toilet signs or like door signs.
Oh, you're spot on.
Braille is a way for people who are blind or have low vision to read.
It's a system of raised dots, arranged in different patterns that represent different letters.
People can run their fingers over the dots to read the letters and words.
Eva's teachers spent four weeks learning as much as they could about this special system and then they put it to use.
Eva is getting great marks in lots of her subjects and participating in all the exciting things her school has to offer.
By putting in that effort to learn a bit of braille, Eva's teachers have made sure that she's included in all the classroom activities and that her disability doesn't mean she misses out.
That's pretty good.
She would feel more supported to make sure that she can learn.
Just because she can't see doesn't mean she should have the lack of right to learn.
And that's what accessibility is.
It's making sure everyone has access to what they need, whether they're someone with or without a disability.
So, Raina Muffrey. John Mayden is an Australian inventor.
He makes instruments, but not ones that you're likely to have seen before.
He doesn't make violins or guitars out of wood and strings.
Instead, he uses old bikes and tyres and gloves and umbrellas to make all sorts of weird and wonderful creations.
It looks like it's made out of recycled and very intricate and interesting materials.
It's so weird. Pipes, rubber gloves and melodicas are assembled together to make something called a farty footpumper.
I think it makes a very interesting and farty noise.
John also makes marimbas.
They're kind of like xylophones, but they're made of wood.
He takes his marimbas and his other wonderful instruments to schools around Australia and overseas, and he uses them to teach kids and adults about music -making.
To make kids more interested into music, to make people laugh, so the kids can have fun.
John wants people to feel encouraged to make music whether or not they have access to fancy instruments.
Music, he says, should be for everybody.
Because once I made a drum kit out of pots and pans because I didn't have one at home, and it turned out to work really good.
At the end of each workshop, participants come together to perform a mini concert of all the new tunes they've learned, working together on silly instruments to make surprisingly lovely music.
John's favourite part of the workshops is seeing people who never consider themselves musicians playing happily and confidently.
He says that if he had to describe the sound of his workshops in one word, it would be joy.
At Dianella Secondary College in Perth, Western Australia, a group of kids stay back after school long after everyone else has gone home.
They are participating in something called the Dukanini Gabbala Cooking Class.
They're learning about ways to use traditional ingredients to make bush tucker with a twist.
Oh, something from in the bush, maybe?
I think bush tucker is an indigenous food that they used to eat.
Most students in the class are indigenous, but everyone is welcome to learn about Aboriginal cooking.
Native herbs and bush tomatoes get combined with fluffy dough to create pinwheel pizzas, and other traditional ingredients, like lemon myrtle and wattle seed and finger limes, are used to make delicious food too.
It looks very appetising, I would surely eat it.
These lessons teach kids about healthy eating and easy recipes they can prepare with their grown -ups at home.
They also learn how First Nations Australians have always used native ingredients to create delicious meals.
It's because if you don't learn about it, then it will all fade away and nobody will know it anymore.
One favourite part of the program is making new friends.
One of the students, Greg, says it's awesome for the older kids to spend time with the younger kids and connect with their culture too.
When he grows up, Greg wants to get his own house and grow native herbs and ingredients in his garden.
So they can make the stuff from their adults?
Exactly. Happy cooking!
And here it is, my friends, the moment you've all been waiting for!
Hour! Hour! Wow a de -wee!
This story made me go wow because why would they only want to do it once a year?
Every year, thousands of giant spider crabs can be seen gathering together in shallow waters on the southern coast of Australia.
They stay there and hang out for a couple of weeks, climbing and clamouring on top of the southern to form giant mounds of giant spider crabs.
Maybe in a big pile for mating?
Climbing up a wall and trying to get someone.
Pincha -Pinchy! Their arrival is often a big mystery.
In fact, it's almost always a surprise when they turn up and not much is known about what these crabs do or where they go when they're not on Aussie beaches.
Maybe they could be traveling to like another island or maybe finding food?
Flying in the water?
Yeah, crab holiday doo -doo -doo -doo -doo -doo -doo -doo!
We know that they get here just before they molt.
Molting is when they shed their old hard shells and expose new soft ones that slowly harden over time.
Scientists at Deakin University started researching this species two years ago by placing cameras underwater to try to track the crabs.
Recently, they headed out to the ocean to collect all their cameras and have a look at the photos.
But there are so many pictures to go through that they're asking the public to help out.
The scientists have posted pictures online for people to investigate.
Already, 7000 people have had a look and given feedback to the scientists.
I spy on them underwater because if I inspect the pictures, then you could see any dangers.
The scientists are hoping that with a few more cameras, some more money to continue their research, and some more help from the public, one day they'll unravel the mystery of the migrating giant spider crab.
And here we are, my friend, at the end of this week's countdown.
But there's no need to be crabby about it.
I'll be back next week with five more stories for you.
Thanks, Ruby. Thank you, Ruby.
You are very welcome.
I couldn't have done it without you.
Bye, Ruby. Catch you next time.
See you later or, as they say in Indonesian, Selamat tingal.
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