ABC News RSS feeds - Australia - here's a list
An internet search gives me nothing about RSS feeds from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC News don’t link to them, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that they don’t have any. In 2024, they pretended this was the case.
But ABC News does have RSS feeds.
Here are some of them, and how to find more.
ABC News RSS feeds
How to find more feeds for more topics
RSS feeds are available for any topic from the ABC.
For this story about a minor earthquake, you’ll see a number of chips under the main headline. The one marked “Earthquakes” takes you to a topic page with /topic/ in the URL.
To get an RSS feed from the Earthquakes topic page:
- View the source
- Search for
ABC.ContentId - Use that ID in the RSS URL
So, the earthquakes RSS feed is this:https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/1274/rss.xml
Something to be aware of is that these topic RSS feed incorrectly have just “ABC News” in the title. But, promise, this is the RSS feed for earthquakes.
How to find feeds for people and other things
As of August 2026, RSS feeds are only available for pages with /topic/ in the URL, as far as I can see. These have an ABC.ContentType of “Taxonomy” (topics, in other words), or “Location”.
People, channels, or other elements within the ABC News pages aren’t available.
How to get a mix of topics
As far as I can see, there’s no “top stories for Australia and Queensland”, if you see what I mean - the equivalent to what you might hear on the radio, or see on the 7pm news bulletin.
That means that if you’re trying to build something like an ABC News plugin for TRMNL, you’ll have to mix feeds. I’ve not seen stories ever appear in both feeds, so therefore, what you’ll actually see there is “top stories” “qld top stories” “top stories” “qld top stories” “top stories”, and a QLD story will never be the actual top story. Not perfect, but it’s the best I can do.
ABC podcast feeds
If you’ve come here looking for podcast feeds - ah, no, you can ignore absolutely everything above.
Here’s a list of all ABC podcast feeds as a CSV file from Aug 2026.
The quickest way to get an update of this file is from the Podcast Index. Here’s a way to get it…
- Download this big SQLite file
- Unzip it
- Use DB Browser for SQLite to query it
Here’s a query that will work:
SELECT title,url,link,imageUrl,itunesAuthor
FROM podcasts
WHERE link LIKE "%abc.net.au%"
OR url LIKE "%abc.net.au%"
ORDER BY title
It’s our ABC
We pay for it… and therefore, we should take care of it and not do anything bad with these RSS feeds, mm’kay?