Questions for discussion

WannaCry Cyberattack1. Before watching the BTN story predict what you think it is going to be about.2. How many countries were affected by the cyberattack?3. What was the cyberattack called?

a. WannaCryb. WannaLeakc. WannaScream

4. Explain what a hacker is in the context of this story.5. What happened when people clicked on the emails or links sent by the hackers? 6. Who did the cyberattack affect?7. Explain how the cyberattack affected hospitals.8. Discuss the issues raised in the story with another student. 9. What do you understand more clearly since watching the BTN story?10. How are you cyber safe? Discuss as a class.

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

1967 Referendum1. How long ago did Australians vote to change our country’s laws to recognise Indigenous

Australians as citizens?2. Describe what it was like in Australia in the 1960s.3. Did Aboriginal people have equal rights to other Australians in the 1960s? Explain.4. In what year were Indigenous Australians given the right to vote in Federal Elections?5. To change the constitution there has to be a referendum. True or false?6. What is a referendum? 7. In 1967 what percent of Australians voted ‘yes’ to change the constitution?8. Discuss why it is important to remember Australia’s 1967 referendum.9. What does it mean to have equal rights? Explain your answer. 10. Name three things you learnt watching the BTN story.

Check out the 1967 Referendum resource on the Teachers page Do the quiz on the BtN website

Kids TV Quotas1. Briefly summarise the BTN Kids TV Quotas story. 2. Who controls what can be shown on free to air TV?

a. ACMA

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b. ACMEc. ACNE

3. At the moment, commercial networks have to broadcast at least 260 hours of children’s TV each year and 25 hours of that has to have been made in Australia. Why do we have this law?

4. Why are some people worried about this law changing?5. What do some of the celebrities in the campaign say about the issue?6. What is the aim of the #savekidstv campaign?7. What are your favourite Australian children’s TV shows?8. Is this issue important to you? Why or why not?9. Hold a class debate. Develop arguments for and against the issue. 10. What was surprising about this story?

Vote in the BTN Online Poll

Space Messages1. What does the BTN story explain?2. Why are the students in the BTN story sending messages into space?3. When was the first interstellar message sent?4. What did a group of scientists do in 1974?5. Finish the following sentence: The golden record that was sent in to space contained…6. What skills are the students in Western Australia using to send encrypted messages?7. The messages will be sent _____ light years away.8. What did the students want aliens to know?9. If you were to send a message into space, what would it be?10. What did you like about the BTN story?

Write a message about the story and post it in the comments section on the story page.

Weedy Seadragon 1. Explain the BTN Weedy Seadragon story to another student.2. Think of three adjectives to describe the weedy seadragon.3. Weedy seadragons are an introduced species. True or false?4. Where in Australia are they found?5. Why are scientists concerned about the seadragons?6. How are scientists identifying them?7. What do the scientists do when they identify a new weedy seadragon?8. Scientists think the species will be re-classified as _____________________.9. What are the threats to the weedy seadragon?10. What did you learn about the BTN story?

Check out the Weedy Seadragon resource on the Teachers page.

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Teacher Resource

1967 Referendum

1. How long ago did Australians vote to change our country’s laws to recognise Indigenous Australians as citizens?

2. Describe what it was like in Australia in the 1960s.3. Did Aboriginal people have equal rights to other Australians in the

1960s? Explain.4. In what year were Indigenous Australians given the right to vote in

Federal Elections?5. To change the constitution there has to be a referendum. True or

false?6. What is a referendum? 7. In 1967 what percent of Australians voted ‘yes’ to change the

constitution?8. Discuss why it is important to remember Australia’s 1967 referendum.9. What does it mean to have equal rights? Explain your answer. 10. Name three things you learnt watching the BTN story.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers please note that this document contains photographs of deceased Indigenous peoples.

GlossaryDevelop a glossary of words and terms that relate to the story. Below are some words to get students started. Add words and meanings to the glossary as you come across unfamiliar words throughout your research. Consider using pictures and diagrams to illustrate meanings.

Challenge students by asking them to use words from their class glossary to write their own sentences. Alternatively, students can make their own crossword puzzle, word find or fill in the gaps activity (see example below).

Fill in the gaps (words: REFERENDUM, RULES, MAJORITY, VOTE)The Constitution is a set of _____________ that explains how Australia is run. The Constitution can only be changed by ___________________. In Australia, a referendum is a ___________ used to approve a change to the Australian Constitution. A referendum is only passed if it is approved by a ______________________ of voters.

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Citizenship Referendum Constitution

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Students will describe the process for constitutional change through a referendum. Students will look at the history of human rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Civics and Citizenship Year 5Present civics and citizenship ideas and viewpoints for a particular purpose using civics and citizenship terms and concepts (ACHCS033)

Civics and Citizenship Year 7The process for constitutional change through a referendum (ACHCK049)

History Year 6Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children (ACHASSK135)

As a class discuss the BTN Referendum Anniversary story using the following questions as a guide. Record the main points of the discussion on a mind map with Referendum at the centre.

What is a referendum? Describe using your own words.

How does a referendum work?

Are referendums important? Why or why not?

Is it compulsory to vote in a referendum? Explain why?

Classroom referendumStudents will hold their own classroom referendum. Consider developing a campaign for the classroom referendum. Working in small groups develop speeches, posters and newspaper articles.

Steps to holding a classroom referendum:

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Consider your classroom as a country. Give your country a name and describe how it is run. This is

your classroom’s constitution.

Review your classroom constitution; does it include equal rights for everyone in your class? How can you improve it? Suggest any changes

you would like to make to your classroom constitution. Remember any changes to your

classroom constitution need to be voted on in a referendum.

As a class write a referendum question. Explain arguments for and against the change you want

to make to your classroom constitution.

Hold a classroom vote asking to either approve or reject the suggested change to your classroom

constitution. Create a voting card and polling booth to lodge your votes.

Count the votes.

 Discussion questions

What was the reason for the change to the Australian Constitution in 1967? Discuss how you think being left out of the Constitution affected Aboriginal people? How would it make you feel if you were left out of your classroom constitution? Explain why the 1967 Referendum was important in Australia’s human rights history.

TimelineStudents will create a timeline of significant events that have contributed to equal rights for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. Students can create their timeline in any way they choose. An interactive timeline creator is available at the Read Write Think website.

Watch these BTN’s stories to learn about events that have made a big difference to Indigenous rights.

BTN Wave Hill video BTN Freedom Ride video

Visual literacyBelow are two photographs depicting significant events in Australia’s history of Indigenous citizenship rights. Look at the images below (alternatively find your own images using the internet) and then respond to the following questions:

What is happening in the image? Where do you think it was taken? How do you think they might be feeling? Describe the mood of the photograph. Is there a message about democracy that comes across in the image? Explain. What question/s would you like to ask the people in the image? Create a caption for each image.

After you have responded to the above questions click on the link for each image to find out what is happening and compare to your responses.

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Source – National Museum Australia (link to image) Source – National Museum Australia (link to image)

Parliamentary Education Office – Referendums and Plebisciteshttp://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/referendums-and-plebiscites.html

BTN - Constitutionhttp://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3939299.htm

National Archives of Australia – 1967 Referendum Fact Sheethttp://www.naa.gov.au/collection/fact-sheets/fs150.aspx

Reconciliation Australia – The 1967 Referendumhttps://www.reconciliation.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NRW2014_27-May-Referendum_FactS.pdf

National Museum of Australia – The 1967 Referendum (Teacher resource)http://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/116692/1967_referendum_colour.pdf

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Teacher Resource

Weedy Seadragon

1. Explain the BTN Weedy Seadragon story to another student.2. Think of three adjectives to describe the weedy seadragon.3. Weedy seadragons are an introduced species. True or false?4. Where in Australia are they found?5. Why are scientists concerned about the seadragons?6. How are scientists identifying them?7. What do the scientists do when they identify a new weedy

seadragon?8. Scientists think the species will be re-classified as

_____________________.9. What are the threats to the weedy seadragon?10. What did you learn about the BTN story?

Class DiscussionAfter watching the BTN Weedy Seadragon story, respond to the following questions:

What did you SEE in this video? What do you THINK about what you saw in this video? What does this video make your WONDER? What did you LEARN from this story? How did this story make you FEEL? What was SURPRISING about this story?

Discuss the BTN Weedy Seadragon story as a class. What questions were raised in the discussion (what are the gaps in their knowledge)? The KWLH organiser provides students with a framework to explore their knowledge on this topic and consider what they would like to know and learn.

What do I know?

What do I want to know?

What have I learnt?

How will I find out?

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Students will explore features of the weedy seadragon, including habitat, behaviour and conservation status.

Science – Year 4Living things have life cycles. (ACSSU072)

Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Science – Year 5Living things have structural features and adaptations that help them to survive in their environment. (ACSSU043)

Science – Year 6The growth and survival of living things are affected by the physical conditions of their environment (ACSSU094) Year 6

Creature Feature reportStudents will research and write a Creature Feature about the Weedy Seadragon. Display your research around the classroom or make a book for the class library. Use this Creature Feature: The Weedy Seadragon worksheet to record your findings.

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Information reportStudents will create an information report about weedy seadragons. The following may help guide students’ research:

Description of a weedy seadragon Diet, habitat The life cycle of a seadragon Adaptations Threats Interesting facts about seadragons

Structure and features of an information reportInformation reports are factual texts written to inform and provide detailed facts about a topic. Discuss with students what they already know about the purpose, structure and features of an information report. Use the following as a guide to use with students.

Purpose – An information report provides information to the reader by stating facts. Structure – see table below. Language features – write in the present tense, use technical or scientific words and write in the

third person.

Students can then use the following plan to help write their report. They can present their reports using publishing software or as a brochure.

Information report – structure

Title States a topic

Introduction The opening statement explains the subject of the report, and includes a definition or short description.

Body Facts grouped into paragraphs. Starts with a topic sentence. Include subject specific language. Text features such as sub-headings, labelled diagrams, charts and captioned photographs may be included.

Conclusion A summary of what the topic is about and end with an interesting fact.

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Create a QuizUse Kahoot! to test students’ knowledge about seadragons. Quizzes can be created to recap learning or test personal knowledge. There is also the option to connect with classrooms around the world and play kahoot in real time.

Port Phillip Bay – Common Seadragonhttp://portphillipmarinelife.net.au/species/8007

Australian Museum – Common Seadragonhttps://australianmuseum.net.au/weedy-seadragon-phyllopteryx-taeniolatus

ABC News – Scientists track threatened weedy seadragon population using marine `facial recognition’http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-14/seadragon-research-tracks-threatened-species-in-australia/8523924

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BtN: Episode 13 Transcript 23/05/17

Hi, I'm Nathan Bazley and this is BTN!

Coming up today:

Fifty years on we take a special look at the Referendum that became a major milestone in the fight for Indigenous rights.

And we hear from an elder that lived through the momentous vote.

Plus, have you ever wanted to send a message into space? These kids are about to do just that but what are they planning to say?

Stay with us for that but first:

WannaCry CyberattackReporter: Natasha Thiele

INTRO: We're going to take a look at the massive cyberattack that hit computers right around the world last week. It caused some big problems, but how did it all happen?Here's more.

COMPUTER: Boo!

KID: Ah!

COMPUTER: Ah!

KID: Who are you?

COMPUTER: Isn't it obvious!?

KID: Um...no!

COMPUTER: Urgh, I'm a computer virus! If you don't hand over a million dollars, you'll never see your files again!

KID: A million dollars! I'm a kid, where am I going to get that money from?

COMPUTER: Well, you better get used to seeing me around!

KID: Noooo!

So this might not be what a real computer virus looks like, but recently something just as scary popped up on computer screens right around the world. It was called 'WannaCry'.

KID: Oh, so where did this virus come from?

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Some people reckon a super secretive US government department called the National Security Agency or NSA is to blame. One of the things they do is go through computer and phone software to find mistakes they could use to spy on people. Once found, the NSA holds onto them to use later. But, unfortunately one of these mistakes was leaked online. It got into the wrong hands and WannaCry was born.

KID: Oh okay, so how does a computer get it?

One way it happened is hackers sent out a bunch of emails with dodgy links or attachments. When people clicked on them, the software was downloaded and locked up all the files on their computer. It didn't allow them back on unless they paid a ransom of about 400 Aussie dollars. It eventually spread through other computers on the same network and infected them too. So far, WannaCry has hit more than 300-thousand computers in 150 countries!

The virus was bad news for anyone, but it was especially bad for government organisations, businesses and hospitals. Some hospitals in the UK were temporarily shut down, patient records were blocked and some operations had to be postponed.

PATIENT: It's inconvenient, very frustrating. I think it's heinous crime this hacking because they're putting people's lives at risk.

Even a few businesses here in Australia were affected by the attack.

KID: Did all of those people lose their files?

Some people had their files backed up so they could get them back without paying the ransom. Some people decided to pay the ransom though and others did end up losing their files.

KID: Wow, do we know who was behind it?

Some reckon it was a group of hackers. Others say it might've been a foreign government trying to cause a bit of trouble. But no-one really knows. What we do know though is this young guy is pretty popular right now because he helped stop the virus from spreading.

MARCUS HUTCHINS, IT EXPERT: I've had people sort of inundating me with messages thanking me saying I'm a hero. I mean, I just registered this domain for tracking and I didn't intend for it to like sort of blow up and me to be all over the media.KID: How awesome is that! But could all this happen again someday?

Well, experts are working really hard to make sure it doesn't. But they say there are things businesses and organisations can do to protect their computers. For example, they can make sure their operating system is up to date, install the latest virus software, keep a back-up of files and always think twice before opening anything that looks a little dodgy or something that looks a lot dodgy like this!

This Week in News

To some of the other big stories this week several people have been arrested over a massive $165 million tax fraud scam including the son and daughter of one of Australia's

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most senior tax officials. Police reckon the group lead luxurious lifestyles to help hide the tax money they were stealing from the Australian Taxation Office. The investigation is likely to continue for months as police try to piece it all together.

¶Speaking of large sums of cash, a famous Aussie billionaire has decided to do a lot of good with his by giving away 400 million dollars to charity and research! ¶Mining Magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and his wife Nicola say they want the money to go towards things like cancer research, helping kids, communities and even ending slavery around the world. Their generous donation is the biggest that's ever been made by a living person in Australia.

Authorities in Thailand are on a mission to help a rather overweight monkey get back to good health! The Macaque known by locals as 'Uncle Fat' is about THREE times heavier than he should be. The monkey had been pigging out on the junk food and soft drinks left behind by tourists. To help him lose weight he's now been put on strict diet of lean meat, fruit and vegetables.

1967 ReferendumReporter: Amelia Moseley

INTRO: Okay next up we're looking at an incredibly important historical event. Next Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the 1967 referendum. It saw the majority of Australians vote to change our country's laws to count Indigenous Australians as full citizens. Here's more on the events that led up to the vote and what's happened since.

The 1960s were a time for change. From pop culture, to milestones in science and human rights movements. Here in Australia, people's attitudes were also starting to change. For a long time, Indigenous people didn't have the same rights as other Australians. They faced a lot of discrimination and weren't counted as citizens of their own country. But many Indigenous and non-Indigenous Aussies realised that things could, and should, be different and they started demanding equality.

In 1962, all Indigenous people were given the right to enrol to vote in federal elections like everyone else. In 1965, Indigenous workers stood up against unfair working conditions and fought for land rights, and in the same year, uni students protested against racism and poor living conditions around country New South Wales.

Around this time, activists had also set their sights on a really big goal that would involve the whole nation. They wanted to change sections of the country's constitution which discriminated.

FAITH BANDLER: And I feel that the time has come that Australia can no longer tolerate legal racial discrimination against its Indigenous people.

AMELIA, REPORTER The constitution is the most important legal document in the whole country. It sets out just how Australia works. So, how the government's put together, how the courts work, how the states work and what the government can and can't do. So, changing it isn't easy!

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To change the constitution, there has to be a referendum. That's where everyone over 18 votes yes or no to the changes. To get the government to even hold that referendum, campaigners set out to get signatures on a petition. They set up tables in the streets of all capital cities and country towns, and even waited outside footy matches and churches. Eventually, they collected 100,000 signatures and after ten years of campaigning they finally got their vote!

On May 27, 1967 Australians went to the polls. In the end, 90 per cent voted 'yes' to changing the constitution. It was the biggest 'yes' vote in our nation's history! The changes meant two lines were removed from the document giving Indigenous people the right to be included in Australia's population figures, and giving the federal government the power to make laws for Indigenous Australians. That last one later paved the way for things like the Land Rights Act, which has given many Indigenous Aussies traditional ownership of their land again.

50 years on, there are still problems that need to be solved, and for many years people have been pushing to change Australia's constitution again because it doesn't recognise Indigenous Australians as the nation's first people, and it still lets governments make laws which discriminate based on race.

But the 1967 referendum is still seen as a milestone in our country's history that brought Australians together and changed the nation for the better.

Referendum Talk

INTRO: Now that gives you a bit of an idea about what led up to the 1967 referendum. But how was it seen by those that lived through it? We joined a group of school kids as they asked a local elder what his life was like before and after this day 50 years ago.

KID 1: Umm, what was it like when you were a kid?

MAJOR SUMNER: You didn't have rights, you didn't have rights to speak up for your own self. When we lived in the fringe camps, we weren't allowed on the school buses. We had to walk from the fringe camp to the school. Because the school buses weren't allowed to pick Aboriginal people up. The Aboriginal children, they had to leave them and drive past them, even if it was pouring with rain. They just drove straight past them. And it wasn't something that upset you, because you were used to it, that was how it was. But looking back on it now, that was a bad thing. It wasn't the colour of your skin, it was because you was Aboriginal and that was it. You was Aboriginal and you wasn't allowed. It wasn't because community said you wasn't allowed, it was a government flaw.

You had to get permission to even go and get married, all these things you had to go through the protector of Aboriginals.

KID 2: How have things changed?

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MAJOR SUMNER: We all got involved in them demonstrations. There were a lot of movements in the 60s where we screamed out for other rights for Aboriginal people. Some of the women were the strongest that pushed for our rights, for our people, in different areas. You've got some of the men that went out and just sat down and never did anything, because they didn't have rights; so they said to their employers "we're not working, we're just going to sit down here." But the message got through to the government that this is what we wanted.

It was hard growing up in the early days. When we look back on it. And the stuff that we're talking about here now, it's important to keep that in your mind and, to tell as you get older, tell everyone else. Don't forget it.

Ask A Reporter

Have you got a question about the 1967 Referendum? Ask me live on Friday during Ask A Reporter! Head to our website for all the details.

Kids TV Quotas

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: Next up, recently the government announced a review into how much kids TV should be shown on commercial networks. You might not realise it but right now there are rules about how many hours are broadcast and how much of it is made in Australia.Here's more on what might happen if those rules disappear.

They're the TV shows that have been entertaining us for decades. From Nowhere Boys to Round The Twist, Totally Wild to Dance Academy. Australian TV brings Aussie stories and Aussie voices into our living rooms. But kids TV could be in for a shake-up.

REPORTER: You see every commercial network has to follow rules that are set out by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. It's in control of what can be shown on free to air TV and when.

At the moment, The ACMA states that, every commercial network has to broadcast at least 260 hours of children's TV each year and 25 hours of that has to have been made in Australia. Those rules were created to try to make sure that Aussie kids grow up knowing about Australian culture and to help the Australian TV industry to grow. But lately the commercial networks have been calling for those rules to be scrapped. They say fewer kids are watching free-to-air TV so the rules aren't important anymore.

Kid 1: While I'm doing homework on my computer I like to watch Netflix at the same time 'cause it's just easier than turning on the TV.

Kid 2: I normally watch it on well yeah television and sometimes on my computer on YouTube.

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Kid 3: Normally on my iPad, very rarely on my computer. But sometimes on my mum’s phone, but usually on my iPad.

The Australian government has now agreed to review the rules. But that's got some people worried that will lead to fewer Australian kids shows in the future. So recently a bunch of TV stars launched a campaign to fight for the rules to stay.

Kayne: You forget how much Australian content shapes your life growing up.

Jay: They are our own stories, we can relate to them, we can see them, we know people like that at home.

It's still uncertain what's in store for Aussie TV and the rules that guide it. But whatever is decided these guys hope there will always be plenty of great kids shows to enjoy in the future.

Kid 1: Australia's already having trouble with unemployment rates and cutting down this will just mean more unemployment for people.

Kid 2: They want to watch like Australian shows and they don't want to watch UK shows or like American Shows.

Kid 3: Like it's important because it will show younger kids Australian culture and Indigenous people and how they lived.

Poll

And we'd like to know if you think those laws should stay or go. Let us know in our online poll. Meanwhile, this is how you voted in last week’s poll.

Space Messages

Reporter: Jack Evans

INTRO: Have you ever wondered what you would say if you could send a message into space? Some kids in WA are working on messages that will soon be transmitted 4 light years away. But what are they planning to say? Take a look.

Robot: what do you call an orange that floats? An unidentified flying orange!

Alien: Hahaha, wait a transmission is coming in from earth.

Alien: What on earth is this!?

Believe it or not, messages like these have actually been transmitted into space. In the hope that it might get picked up by extra-terrestrials. Not sure what they would learn from whale sounds though!

For a long time, humans have been gazing up at the stars wondering if life is out there somewhere in the billions of galaxies. But we can't travel there yet, so one way of finding life is to send out messages to let them know we're here.

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The first interstellar message was sent in 1962 in morse code and was aimed towards Venus. Needless to say, so far there hasn't been a response. Then in 1974 a group of scientists in America used two different radio frequencies to transmit a code from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. And when you arrange those signals they look like this. The white dots at the top represent the numbers 1 through to 10. The purple dots are the most important elements for human life - Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen and Phosphorus. The green and blue dots represent the building blocks for DNA. Then there's an image of a human, our solar system and the telescope that sent the message. The only problem is this message will take about 25,000 years to reach its destination. And then if an alien does happen to receive it, it'll take another 25,000 years for a response to reach earth.

But that hasn't stopped us from trying to make contact in other ways too. This golden record was sent out on a probe. It contains things like whale noises and greetings in 55 different languages. There's also been a chip commercial broadcast out into space and even a Beatles song. But now, these kids in WA are sending some messages of their own. They're using their coding skills to create an encrypted message that will be sent into space.

CY - STUDENT: I've enjoyed that we get to put our own ideas and our unique ideas about what we've done and send them up to space and sort of try and figure out if there is alien life out there

It's part of special STEM class that'll send their messages 4 light years away and if any aliens do get their message they want them to know that they're welcome to come and visit.

ESTHER - STUDENT: We have a great place and we are ok to have anyone come here and visit or stay here.

CY - STUDENT: But also, we don't want any violence and we just want to also run our own world and not be overtaken by people that we're not really sure about.

So maybe one day, thanks to these kids, we'll discover whether or not we're alone in this universe.

Quiz

In that story we mentioned a spacecraft sent out with a golden record on it. What is it called?

Voyager

Atlantis

Or Discovery

The answer – Voyager and it's currently 20 and a half billion kays away from Earth.

Sport

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History was made during a match between Essendon and West Coast this weekend. Eleni Glouftsis stepped out on the oval and became the first female field umpire in the AFL.

¶ELENI GLOUFTSIS - UMPIRE: The main thing for me was about doing the best that I possibly could and if that's reaching AFL game I'm really pleased to be in this position.

Eleni started umpiring in South Australia at a local and state level. Then in 2014 she won an AFL scholarship and has been umpiring pre-season games for the past 2 years. ¶And while it was a big loss for the Eagles with the Bombers cruising to a comfortable 10 goal win it was definitely a win for Eleni.

¶Meanwhile England's soccer association is bringing in tough new rules for diving. It'll review dives in the premier league each week in the hopes of cracking down on fake dives. And if a player is found to deceive an official, in order to score a penalty for their team, they could be temporarily suspended.

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And 12-year-old Jeremy Jin from Sydney is getting ready to head to Paris next month ¶to take part in the Future Tennis Aces competition, a tournament played during the French Open!

JEREMY: I was really happy, cos my dad just told me and I was really excited to be able to represent Australia to go all the way to Paris.

The young Aussie has good reason to be excited too. He'll get the chance to play against some of the best rising stars from around the world.

Good luck Jeremy!

Weedy Seadragon

Reporter: Amelia Moseley

INTRO: Finally today, we're travelling under the sea where Australian scientists are trying to save a unique marine species called the weedy seadragon. There are worries the creatures are now endangered. But to confirm that, researchers need help from citizen scientists and some amazing facial recognition software.

Just 15 kays from Sydney is dragon territory. Jump in and you'll find these strange and beautiful creatures living amongst the seaweed! Weedy seadragons are native to Australia and can be found in the waters mostly off the South and East coasts. They're related to sea horses and often just drift about in the water, blending in with the kelp around them!

The problem is these colourful creatures are becoming harder and harder to spot, and not just because of their clever camouflage.

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JOHN TURNBULL, RESEARCHER: This is the best site in Sydney so you can still see them here reliably. Other sites - particularly on the north side of Sydney where they used to be a common occurrence, now you're lucky to find one, and sometimes you find none.

Luckily, marine biologists have a plan to work out how many weedies are left. Instead of catching and tagging every seadragon they find, they're asking citizen scientist divers off the coasts of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania to take photos of the creatures and send them in. The researchers are then using a kind of facial recognition software to identify each fishes' unique patterns!

KRIS O'KEEFE, RESEARCHER: The software program allows us to map out the markings on the side of a weedy seadragon and it becomes a unique fingerprint for the weedies.

Every time they identify a new weedie, they give it a very appropriate name to help keep track of it!

DR SELMA KLANTEN, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY: And it will tell us if it's David or Greg or Alicia. Because every single new seadragon we have gets a name so we can follow it over the years.

Weedy seadragons are classified as 'near threatened', but scientists reckon this research could provide enough info to have them re-listed as 'endangered'. They reckon climate change could be a big part of the problem for the seadragons. They say rising sea temperatures are killing the kelp which leaves them homeless.

DR SELMA KLANTEN, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY: Once they're gone, they're gone and one we lose them, we will never get them back. They were here many many thousands - hundreds of thousands of years ago. With our impact, losing them would be really sad.

They're asking divers to keep sending in their photos so they can make sure there are more little David’s, Greg’s or Alicia’s swimming around Australia in the future.

Closer

And that's it for today!

But there is heaps more for you on our website including all of our suggested class activities for this ep. Thanks for joining me and I'll see you on Friday for #AskaReporter then next week for more BTN.

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