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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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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...
Best of 2025: Chifley, Hawke, Rudd. Albanese beat them all. But what’s next?
Remember how there was a federal election?
In this episode, we return to Anthony Albanese's astonishing landslide victory in May with former chi...
Best of 2025: How a dancing Robert Irwin became America’s antidote
Today, we return to a good news story as we kick off a new year. The fame of Robert Irwin, the son of ‘crocodile hunter’ Steve Irwin, was supercharged...
Best of 2025: The lawyer (and author) who represented Palestine in international court
As we say goodbye to 2025, we can only hope we also see an end to the swirling chaos of multiple wars that raged across the world, and in the case of...
Best of 2025: The tobacco tax causing carnage in our streets
A tax on tobacco seemed like a great idea to deter smokers and raise revenue.
But, as the price of cigarettes soared, major criminal organisati...
Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton
Hi and Merry Christmas!
Your Inside Politics team is on a little hiatus over summer before we return at the end of January.
In the meantim...
Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.
It was another big year for the human headlin...
Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.
Well, the mushroom murders was the criminal...
Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.
Today, we return to an episode recorded in O...
Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con
Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team...
Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’
In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, former primer minister Tony Abbott joins host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal...
Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack
This week it feels wrong to talk about politics in the wake of the horrific antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Australians and Sydneysider...
Courage and kindness in the face of the Bondi attack
On the evening of the shooting at Bondi, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “An attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian” – t...
Holocaust survivors chose Sydney after the war. Then came the Bondi attack
When Michael Visontay heard of the shootings at Bondi Beach on Sunday, his first instinct was to call his son, who often swam there. Then came the sic...
A voice note from our reporter who was caught up in the Bondi shooting
We’re releasing an additional episode today featuring one of our reporters, Elias Visontay, who was at Bondi Beach with a friend on the day of the ter...
Bondi terror attack: On the ground after mass shooting
Sunday’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack, which targeted a Hanukkah celebration, was the worst mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. Some in the...
How horror Bondi Beach terror attack unfolded
As we record this on Sunday night, 12 people, including the shooter, have been confirmed dead in a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, with the Ne...
Inside Politics: The ‘dirty business’ of MP expenses
Today, we're delving into the expenses scandal, if indeed we are calling it a scandal, that has engulfed the Communications Minister Anika Wells. A $1...
Trump and the Caribbean boat strikes: Did a war crime occur?
The video is, according to those who have seen it, horrific to watch. Two sailors cling to the debris of a blown-up boat in the Caribbean, when they’r...
The sex offenders being protected under secretive orders
Our mastheads have discovered that a number of sex offenders have committed crimes - in our communities - after serving their time in prison.
An...
What happens when social media goes ‘dark’ for Australian teens
Parents across the country have been wringing their hands for months about how the social media ban will work – and more so, if it will work. So, what...
Blood on the ground: What’s happening in Sudan
When American author Anne Applebaum travelled to the frontlines of the Sudanese civil war this year, she gave herself a stern remit. Bear witness to,...
How does a government minister spend $100,000 on flights to New York?
This week the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was on his honeymoon after his low-key Lodge wedding last weekend, while Senate estimates rolled on in C...
Kate McClymont on the fake accountant, the solicitor, and the stolen millions
When Mark Leishman and his wife Kathy first sought out the help of George Dimitriou, they were suffering with cash-flow problems at Mark’s business. <...
Will ‘gentle density’ help fix our housing stupidity?
New figures out on Monday show that the median house values in Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane have become, well, kind of insane. They’re the kind of fi...
Why shark attacks in Australia are increasing
It really was the stuff of nightmares. A Swiss tourist, who was swimming with dolphins off the NSW coast, was suddenly mauled by a three-metre bull sh...
How real is the rise of One Nation?
When Pauline Hanson marched into the Senate last week wearing a burqa, it felt, for a moment, like we were back in the 1990s.
Those were the so...
Barnaby defects, Hanson offends and Sussan Ley comes on the podcast
Well, Barnaby Joyce finally announced his resignation from the Nationals this week, paving his way to join One Nation, in a week where Pauline Hanson...
'Nice is nice': How a dancing Robert Irwin became America's antidote
We feel like we’ve known him since he was in nappies. But now, at 21, the fame enjoyed by Robert Irwin - the son of Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - has...
‘They view it as a contagion’: Why Trump wants our migrant data
Donald Trump has long tried to stamp American institutions - and the daily life of his country’s citizens - with his ultra-conservative ideology, open...
Why the BOM spent $96 million on its website
The Bureau of Meteorology has been plagued with public stuff-ups, including, just a few years ago, a false tsunami alert sent to half of the country.<...
'Blood oil': How Australia is funding Russia's war
Shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Australia banned the importation of Russian crude oil. Even so, Russian oil is still making its wa...
Albanese wants to protect Australia ‘as it is’. But is it good enough?
Recently on this podcast we have been highly fixated on the problems within the Liberal opposition and we have neglected the government somewhat. So t...
The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own
It’s a Sunday at a park in Singapore, and, as journalist Zach Hope observed, it’s the servants day off.
They lounge on picnic rugs, shaking off...
The political 'killing season' has begun, so who are the new leaders?
There can be no mistaking it – it is that time of year known as the killing season. Because, as of this morning, there are two state political leaders...
Trump and Epstein: How significant are the new emails?
Donald Trump has long sworn that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was no big deal, that he didn’t know about his abuse of girls and women, and th...
Wasting billions: The government system hurting your hip pocket
Four years ago, when our senior economics correspondent, Shane Wright, pointed out the failings of our central bank, government leaders, including the...
Inside Politics: The Coalition’s net zero word salad, and Ley’s leadership ‘not safe’
This week in federal politics there was really only one show in town, and that was the compelling and 'can't look away' car crash that is the Liberal...
The NYT asked if women ruined the workplace. Women had some thoughts
“Did women ruin the workplace?”
This was the question that was put forward in a New York Times podcast that - no surprises here - quickly went v...
Blood and honour: why couldn’t the NSW Government stop a neo-Nazi rally?
How could dozens of white supremacists be allowed to rally outside of the NSW parliament building, on Saturday morning? And why didn’t the police who...