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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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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...
John Laws: The power of one Sydney shockjock
Tributes have flown in – from the likes of actor Russell Crowe and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – for John Laws, the polarising broadcaster who die...
REDs is the hot topic among athletes and amateurs, but is it real?
Have you ever taken on a 10km run, or a half marathon - maybe pushed yourself just a little too much, without properly researching what you should be...
Jane Hume on rebranding net zero, and Hastie's abortion comments
It’s been a rather torrid week for the Coalition, with yet more messy fighting over whether it will dump its commitment to Australia achieving net zer...
Our hospitals and GPs are struggling. Are Albanese’s fixes working?
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swept back into power in part on the back of an $8.5 billion investment in Medicare, what he described as the “single...
A birthing trend is leading to deaths. Why is it growing in popularity?
A series of tragic deaths of Australian mothers and babies, as a result of so-called “freebirthing” has put this practice into the spotlight.
An impending 'Spermageddon'?: new study on the everyday chemicals lowering sperm count
Is "Spermagedon" coming? Well, the results of a new study on men's fertility and testosterone levels has left experts concerned as male sperm counts p...
'The most intense attack of my career': Alex Greenwich on what happened with Mark Latham
High-profile politician Alex Greenwich is used to the robust world of public office, but he says he had never experienced such an intense attack on hi...
Inflation figures were bad, so why focus on Albanese’s T-shirt?
This week we're going to talk about the government's weaknesses, which might seem a little bit counter-intuitive, because Prime Minister Anthony Alban...
Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
This week, King Charles was doing something the British royal family are accustomed to - shaking the hands of royal fans who had lined up for a chance...
The private powerbroker who has Lachlan Murdoch’s ear
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch famously sided with his right-hand man, former Fox News chairman and now disgraced businessman, Roger Ailes, over his son, Lac...
2025 Good Food Guide Awards: The revealing trends and best restaurants
You sure can tell a lot about a person by what they eat. Actor Marilyn Monroe once said that she was told her eating habits were “absolutely bizarre”,...
Fake pubic hair on a g-string for $70, a joke? Not if you're Kim Kardashian
You couldn’t escape last week without hearing the ad for Kim Kardashian's latest rage-bait release: a so-called micro thong with faux pubic hair.
Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
The week in federal politics could not have been more fun. We had Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travel to Washington, finally, for his meeting with...
Have we just seen a tipping point in the US-China fight for supremacy?
For decades, analysts have been predicting the moment when China would inevitably overtake the United States as the world’s strongest power. That mome...
Inside the Trump and Albanese meeting: two deals and a humiliation
It was the meeting that has been hanging over our prime minister’s head for nine months. But Anthony Albanese’s face-to-face with Donald Trump, on Tue...
They might rescue you from danger. But is Westpac Rescue safe?
They are the heroes who might be called to winch you to safety, if you fall into a crevasse, get stuck in a bushfire, or find yourself circled by shar...
Victoria's treaty is an Australian first. What will this agreement mean?
Victoria is on the cusp of legislating a treaty with Indigenous people.
When it's enacted, Victoria will become the first state in Austra...