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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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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...
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...