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The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.
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The return of 'ISIS brides’ raises so many questions about what it means to be Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia's ISIS brides - the women trying to return home with their children from Syria - are not getting help f...
The Sketch: Tony Wright on 'Nation's worst government? Jane Hume's hyperbolic historical claim'
Tony Wright, the associate editor of The Age, has been writing for 50 years. He is the master of what we call the political sketch. Sketches are akin...
Trump won’t shelter us. But does Australia really need nuclear weapons?
We are in a dangerous new nuclear age, according to a growing number of world leaders. The signs are not just in Russia’s threats to use its nuclear a...
A Sydney mother, the big bank and the court stoush over $44.11
It should have been a time of celebration for a Sydney woman, who had bought a new home for herself and her daughter.
But as settlement l...
How far will Angus Taylor go to crack down on immigration?
“Our character is essentially Anglo-Celtic and Judaeo-Christian. That's what has made our country attractive to migrants, and we should keep it that w...
The CFMEU ‘crime gang’: A honeypot of money, and a government that looked the other way
Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie’s 2024 exposé of the criminal infiltration of the construction sector prompted a slew of investigations among gov...
Anthony Albanese interview: Police prayer disruption at Herzog protest needs ‘full explanation’
We're bringing you an extra episode of Inside Politics today because Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had an opening in his diary, and he's granted us...
Is government spending really driving inflation?
There’s a bit going on with the Liberal Party this week, but while that unfolds we are going to look at some bigger issues.
Interest rates went...
Japan’s new PM is the 'Trump whisperer'. Will she compel Albanese to follow suit?
The new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is so pro-Donald Trump she’s become known as the “Trump whisperer”. She also just gained an enormous am...
Who is Isaac Herzog and why there are protests everywhere he goes
The violence that unfolded outside Sydney Town Hall on Monday night was ugly. Protesters were punched, kicked and trampled as they tried to breach a p...
The politics of Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl’s half-time show
If you’ve taken a passing glimpse at news over the past week, you would have come across the name Bad Bunny.
The Puerto Rican musician re...
Gina Rinehart, the disability pensioner and a fight over 12km of fencing
We all know how a neighbour with irksome habits can drive us to distraction. Maybe their leafblower is their best friend. Or they blast their music at...
Bill Shorten on his random, oblique reference in the Epstein files
Today on Inside Politics, we welcome back former opposition leader Bill Shorten, who is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra.
I...
The Epstein files troubling Trump and who he’ll threaten next
Another tranche - amounting more than 3 million pages - of the Epstein files has been published.
The US Department of Justice says this i...
Why our obsession with interest rates and cost of living is a problem
The Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate for the first time in two years yesterday, to 3.85 per cent. Exactly as mortgage holders have been fearing.
'A crazy week' ahead: Leadership spills and more Liberal defections
Can the Coalition reunite, after two weeks of political infighting? And will the Liberal and National parties’ leaders, Sussan Ley and David Littlepro...
Forged via Facebook. The anti-vax parents faking child health records
"No jab no play” policy means unvaccinated children can’t be enrolled in childcare or preschool in most Australian jurisdictions. But some parents hav...
A funeral, secret plots, and 'wayward children' — another messy week for the Coalition
The drama between the Liberals and the Nationals continued this week with what seems to be a total breakdown in the relationship between Liberal leade...
‘Numbers, numbers everywhere’: Interest rate rise likely, but what does it all mean?
Inflation has risen again, and the markets are already tipping interest rates are likely to increase next week in response.
Today, senior econom...
Beyond the Alex Pretti video: On the ground in Minneapolis
Two Americans have now been killed by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis in less than three weeks.
Their families say they were...
Nude processing sessions and alleged sexual abuse: The cult still operating in Australia
She was given the pseudonym XC, by a court, to protect her identity. And she’s never spoken publicly about her experience. But the court documents fro...
The remarkable story of how Timor-Leste is tackling cervical cancer
More than 25 years ago, photojournalist Kate Geraghty travelled to Timor-Leste to document the struggles of the Timorese people as they wrestled back...
The Sketch: Tony Wright on the Coalition’s 'ship of fools'
Tony Wright, the associate editor of The Age, has been writing for 50 years. He is the master of what we call the political sketch.
Sketches are...
Barnaby Joyce opens up on his defection to Pauline Hanson's One Nation
One Nation is having a bit of a moment.
Pauline Hanson’s outfit, accused by both major parties of exploiting racial anxiety over her career, has...
Littleproud fired the gun, but Ley set up the circumstances: The spectacular Coalition break-up
We are back with a special episode of Inside Politics as a few things have happened this week - namely the break-up of the Coalition, a century-old po...
Coalition splits – again – over hate speech laws
Since recording this episode, Nationals Leader David Littleproud formally announced that the Coalition has split, blaming Opposition leader Sussan Ley...
'So much change, so much chaos': One year of Trump 2.0
Ronald Reagan’s presidency of the 1980s is known as the ‘Reagan Revolution’, while Franklin D Roosevelt - the only president who has served for more t...
The rise and fall of one of Australia’s most powerful criminals
Kazem Hamad rose rapidly to become one of the nation’s most powerful organised crime players. The syndicate he is accused of heading waged a relentles...
Aus Open prize money is at an all-time high. But are players being paid enough?
When Australian Open stars, such as Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, hit the courts this week, they’ll do so with the support of screaming fans, ma...
Best of 2025: Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
Inside Politics is still on a break, but we’re set to return in two weeks.
Today, we return to an episode released just after Anthony Albanese...
Why Kevin Rudd resigned, and what it means for our relationship with Trump
When Kevin Rudd announced on Monday that he would leave his post as ambassador to the United States a year early, it was a penny-drop moment for many....
Is the Iranian regime about to collapse?
The protests that have been spreading across Iran for weeks have been growing more violent. Video footage showed and eye witnesses described security...
Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's behind Australia's climate 'whiplash'
While firefighters in Victoria battle devastating bush fires that have destroyed homes and livestock, at the other end of the country, Queenslanders w...
First Trump invaded Venezuela. But it may not be Greenland that's next
On the first day of the new year, Donald Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social, what he wanted for 2026. And I quote, “Peace, peace on earth...
Best of 2025: Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
We’re on a break over summer, our dear chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal is probably off to a yoga retreat somewhere in Bali, and we return at...
Best of 2025: Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edit...
Best of 2025: Women were once ‘essential’ to the Liberal Party. What happened?
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week.
Last May, the incumbent Labor government swept...
Best of 2025: What is freebirthing?
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edit...
Best of 2025: Why gangland figure Tony Mokbel could walk free
Today we’re heading back to a court in Melbourne with crime writer Chris Vedelago. It was the day when one of the last remaining figures from the city...
Best of 2025: The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point
Happy New Year.
We’re on a break over summer - lucky us - before we return at the end of January for another year of Inside Politics.
Toda...