ABC Far North

19/06/2026

🌴📚 What are you reading this month? 🤔Saturday Breakfast Book Club was back today with Emily, Suzie and William joining Amanda Cranston to discuss this month's books.

Our book clubs are reading:

📚 The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams

📚 A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

📚 Quiet by Susan Cain

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19/06/2026

🎶🎙Did you hear local band Earthkin on the Saturday Breakfast show last weekend? You can catch them tonight at The Elixir Bar in Cairns. 🎶🌴

19/06/2026

🚨 1.45pm The northbound lane of the Bruce Highway at Fishery Falls has reopened but police are advising motorists to expect lengthy delays.

Three people have been taken to hospital, including a man in his 50s with serious but non-life threatening injuries.

🚨12.30pm There has been a multi-vehicle crash near the Fishery Falls Holiday Park, just south of Cairns. Emergency services are on the scene and the road is closed in both directions until further notice.

18/06/2026

Meet Ezra Daniels. He's a year 7 student from a remote community in the Northern Territory who now calls 'Wanggulay' home.

Djarragun College in Gordonvale says their new facility is Queensland's first indigenous co-designed, purpose-built boarding house specifically for young indigenous men and represents the belief in the potential of the students to overcome the challenges they've faced coming from remote communities across Australia.

ABC Far North producer, Juanita Soper caught up with Ezra to find out what he loves about his new 'home away from home'.

Listen to the interview below 👇 (link in comments) or visit the ABC Far North website for the FULL interview.

17/06/2026

Edmonton powerlifter, Le Roy Vorster has broken his own Southern Hemisphere title of benching over 1000 pounds (435kg). 💪

He needed a warm-up weight so ABC Far North radio producer, Juanita Soper was the closest thing available for a cheeky bicep curl.

She won't reveal her 'competition weight', although did say she's no "lightweight". 😏

Le Roy.....what a BEAST!!

15/06/2026

A Cairns man accused of exposing the identity of a Queensland public figure at the centre of a mysterious extortion case has been charged by police with allegedly disobeying a suppression order.

15/06/2026

Congratulations Cairns State High school year 12 student, Evie Evans who has been named Australia's 2026 Youth Literacy Ambassador. 👏👏

Evie will be joining 900 young leaders from 101 countries in a mission to tackle declining literacy rates and inspire a new generation of readers.

She told Charlie McKillop on ABC Far North Breakfast today that "going through a great public school like Cairns High I realised that I'm very lucky to have Australian education, but even in Australia there's rural and indigenous communities without that level of education that I'm getting".

A big future ahead for Evie!

12/06/2026

Most people start with a sprint triathlon. Not Cody Bell.

The Cairns rescue crew officer spends his days helping others aboard Rescue Helicopter 510, and this Sunday he'll tackle one of sport's toughest endurance events - the Cairns Ironman.

Remarkably, it will be Cody's first-ever triathlon.

He's among the more than 40% of competitors making their Ironman debut this year as thousands prepare to swim, ride and run through Tropical North Queensland.

Good luck, Cody! 💪🏊🚴🏃

Listen to his conversation with ABC Far North Breakfast Charlie McKillop below 👇👇(link in comments) or visit the ABC Far North Website to hear the FULL interview.

11/06/2026

A 16-year-old boy has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of r**e arising from an armed home invasion of a couple's Cairns home.

A court heard the boy, now 16, was armed with a tomahawk when he broke into a couple's Cairns home with two other teenagers in February last year.

11/06/2026

💖 Such a beautiful morning meeting some southside locals!

Thanks to everyone who popped in to say hi to Charlie and Juanita broadcasting from Fretwell Park.

We love taking the ABC Far North Breakfast show on the road so feel free to let us know where we should go next!

Catch Charlie McKillop for some more conversations that matter, back in the studio tomorrow from 530am!