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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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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...
Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
They said he couldn’t do it, but he’s doing it. In a few days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, fresh from a week’s holiday, will be flying to Washing...
We have them. Trump wants them. Are rare earths Australia’s secret superpower?
Remember when Donald Trump began a tariff war with ... the world?
We thought that was old news. But over the weekend, the US president and Chine...
Will the treasurer’s “humiliating” tax backflip help, or hurt you?
It was the superannuation tax plan that helped Labor achieve a landslide victory in the last election. Though some of Australia’s wealthiest Australia...
Hostages free after 737 days, but is the war over?
The 20 surviving Israeli hostages who had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza, have finally been released.
The Israeli Defence Force has r...
A Melbourne father accused of a crime. An American lawyer thinks he's innocent
It is one of the most unspeakable crimes a parent can be accused of – shaking their vulnerable baby so badly, that they sustain brain damage, or in th...
Tim Wilson on Hastie's exit, and bringing back that 'big Liberal energy'
The member for Goldstein, Tim Wilson, is a guest on the podcast this week during a very interesting time for the Liberal Party. Last week, home affair...
Japan poised to elect first female leader – 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi
Japan is preparing for its first ever female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi, the 64-year-old hardline right-wing conservative, likens herself to Marga...
Wi-Fi on the long-haul: Is the final frontier of silence over?
If you’re lucky enough to be on a plane these days, flying somewhere, it’s so easy to feel ungrateful. Does anyone need to watch the film Red 2, again...
Free range? Or food fraud? The new tech exposing ‘bogus’ Australian food labels
Can we trust food labels? As in, is the chicken in the supermarket fridge really free-range like it says it is? Are the "local" prawns from a fishmong...
Two men dead and a teenager with blood on his hands. Was this a case of self-defence?
Almost seven years ago to the day, on the NRL grand final weekend, a bizarre set of events unfolded.
An injured woman knocked on the door of a s...
Can Albanese claim credit for Trump’s peace plan?
The prime minister has just returned from 10 days of high-wire diplomacy, initially at the United Nations in New York before swinging through London a...
Introducing: Diagnosing Murder
For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable – child abuse. Diagnosing Murder is an invest...
Why Western democracies are struggling against Russia's and China’s 'hybrid war'
On the weekend, Denmark reported unidentified drones had appeared above its major military bases. It was the country’s third drone alarm in a week and...
Click to cancel: How hard should it be to end a subscription?
We all know how annoying it can be to cancel a subscription, whether to a streaming service or gym membership, but when do ‘'subscription traps’', as...
The ‘remarkable breakthrough’ made for Huntington’s disease
Researchers say they have, for the first time, dramatically slowed the progression of a cruel and devastating neuron condition called Huntington’s dis...
Chemtrails to the elitist cabal: Why conspiracy theories are thriving in the White House
There was a time when people who believed that the government can control the weather, or that Wi-Fi causes cancer might have been social pariahs.
Albanese’s warning on tyranny, dictators, and his selfie with Trump
Today we are bringing you a special international episode of the pod. The prime minister has spent the week in New York addressing the United Nations,...
Trump just insulted almost all world leaders, to their faces, but what does it mean?
How to make sense of the last two weeks?
Because it isn’t just that Russia has stepped up its global aggression by invading the airspace of vari...