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The Morning Edition
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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256 episodis
Matt Canavan on his love of EVs, and calling out Pauline Hanson
The new leader of the Nationals, Matt Canavan, is a former Marxist from the suburbs who was once a Productivity Commission economist and then, a fireb...
Peter Hartcher: Donald Trump is now a ‘genocidal tyrant’
US President Donald Trump has backed down, at the eleventh hour, from his horrifying threat to - as Trump put it himself - unleash destruction on Iran...
Nick McKenzie on the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith
The Australian Federal Police today arrested war hero Ben Roberts-Smith over the war-crimes murders of five unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners dur...
The court judgment that could change the treatment of Australian women giving birth
There was a significant judgment in a Victorian court last week, one that is causing a great deal of controversy in the medical community.
An Australian study linked vaping to cancer for the first time. Why all the backlash?
Many of us probably have a hunch that vaping is bad for our health.
Questions about just how bad have been around for years.
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A national address, nailing down the budget, and Hastie’s ‘striking’ interview
This week we debate the merits of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s national address before getting stuck into what’s happening with the budget. With...
Peter Hartcher: Donald Trump is on the cusp of walking away from Iran
US President Donald Trump says he’s nearly done with the war in Iran, declaring: "We will be leaving very soon." His secretary of state also said on W...
Nick McKenzie on how North Korean spies are infiltrating Australian companies
Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie logged on to a Zoom call to meet the man who said he was Aaron Pierson.
McKenzie was also hiding his real i...
Albanese has a petrol plan. Will it help, or boost inflation?
The government has finally announced its national fuel security plan to help us cope with one of the worst global oil crisis the world has seen.
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The dramatic end to the hunt for Dezi Freeman
In a sudden conclusion to one of Australia’s most intensive manhunts, self-described sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman was shot dead by police on Monday...
After the flood: Exploring the link between disasters and dementia
When the murky and fast-flowing water surged into their house in northern Victoria, Brian and Glenys Mulcahey were determined. They would save their h...
The EU trade deal, and One Nation’s South Australian election
This week, while we were all freaking out about the oil crisis – and rightly so – European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen visited to finali...
Peter Hartcher on why the Iran conflict is spiralling out of control
How can we make heads or tails of where the Iran war is headed, and when it might end, when Donald Trump changes his strategy with whiplash speed?
What the Kyle and Jackie O split says about Australians
As much as we love to hate Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, who for so long ruled Australia's most expensive radio program, the implosion of their show i...
Explaining the petrol problem and whether gas is next
You’ve noticed the hike in prices at the petrol pump, but how high might prices go?
And are we at risk of running out of petrol?
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'Looksmaxxing’ is the dark new trend and Australian men are leading it
"Looksmaxxing" is a trend on social media where, as the name suggests, men aim to "maximise" their appearance in sometimes extreme ways. There are tal...
Is it really time to panic about petrol supply?
This week we’re talking about the enormous global volatility the government is dealing with, courtesy of the US-Israel war on Iran, and whether we nee...
Trump unloads on Australia, and MAGA official quits over Iran war
For someone who has said he’s already won the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump sure is angry.
On Tuesday night, he lashed out at al...
“We don’t know what the harms could be”: when medicinal cannabis doesn’t work
Medicinal cannabis has been increasingly used, legally, to relieve symptoms and treat conditions such as anxiety or chronic pain.
Today, health...
How the 'Great Australian Dream' of home ownership has changed
Housing affordability in Australia is at an all-time low, and it’s left young people rethinking the dream of homeownership – something previous genera...
Do the Oscars ever get it right?
By now, you’ve probably seen the Reddit threads blowing up over which movie should win the best picture Oscar today.
How can Ryan Coogler’s Sinn...
The extraordinary story of the Iranian women's soccer team
This week, we talk about the incredible story of the Iranian women's soccer team, some of whom defected and were given asylum in Australia. It was a w...
Trump's 'need for violence'. And have we joined the war on Iran?
It could be argued that no American president has been as enamoured with violence as Donald Trump. He appears to relish all of it: the spectacle, the...
How the Iranian women’s soccer team escape unfolded
Five female Iranian soccer players, in Australia competing for the Asian Cup, escaped in the night from their handlers to seek refuge from their home...
Reporting from Lebanon: How far will the Iran war expand from here?
Thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes due to Israeli airstrikes and forced evacuations as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah esc...
How a group of Australian gamblers beat the Texas lottery
The lieutenant governor of Texas has called it “the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas”. He was referring to the work of A...
Mickey the 'monster': Sinister allegations behind spectacular corporate unravelling
Micky Ahuja catapulted his company MA Services from nothing to the big time to become the security provider of choice to the federal government retail...
The politics of war, and why Peter Dutton was so upset over leaked Liberal Party review
Israel and the United States are at war with Iran in a rapidly escalating conflict that Australia seems to be trying to avoid as much as possible. Tod...
'The MAGA base is splintering': Might Iran break Trump?
Only six days since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, the destruction is mounting. More than 800 people have been killed, including Ira...
Regrets? There are none. David Littleproud on Coalition split and what Nats do next
In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, we’re joined by the Nationals leader David Littleproud.
He’s a man under pressure – commentators, Libe...
The energy vampires next door: Life next to an AI mega-factory
If leading figures of the AI boom, like OpenAI chief Sam Altman, have their way, much of the world (or better yet, space) will be covered in data cent...
Abuse claims against Trump in the missing Epstein files: will it bring him down?
Only days before US President Donald Trump declared war on Iran, another Epstein files bombshell dropped — this one, relating to allegations against t...
US-Iran war: Iran’s government has been ‘decapitated’. What now?
US President Donald Trump's act of war on Iran at the weekend seemed inevitable but nevertheless shocking.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and civilians...
Tim Wilson accused the treasurer of pouring fuel on the inflation flames – is he right?
This week we had some not-so-great inflation figures and also reports that there'll be another interest rate rise right before the government hands do...
What Ukraine’s four-year resistance against Russia teaches us about survival
The Pentagon once said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could succeed in three days. So, as the war rages on, more than four years later, what else h...
Inside Dr Jamal Rifi's mission to bring 'ISIS brides' and children home
Jamal Rifi is the Sydney doctor at the centre of a controversial mission to repatriate the so-called ISIS brides – 34 Australian women and children wh...
Kidnapped, body found: The case of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian
A scream in the night, glass smashing, and dogs barking - these were the first signs that something terrible had happened in a suburban Sydney street....
What it will take for police to charge Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into police custody on his 66th birthday last week, it was the first time in nearly 400 years a British roya...
Designer babies: Healthier, better DNA? Or a gateway to eugenics?
Every parent has the same fiercely held wish for their unborn child: that they're born healthy, and continue to thrive. But how far would you go to ac...
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...