The Morning Edition

By The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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Subscribers: 570
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Episodes: 100

James
 Feb 26, 2022
Love the brief, concise direct slice of Australian life which still informs like a deep dive. Highly recommended

Milana
 Apr 21, 2020
Really good insight on the current state of Australian politics and culture. I am particularly enjoying the switch to short form and hope the 10-15 minute segments continue, even if they are not daily.

Peter
 May 9, 2019
Love the focused presentation- clear and concise.

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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.


Episode Date
Inside Politics: The best and worst of 2024
Dec 19, 2024
The flesh-eating ulcer spreading across the east coast
Dec 18, 2024
A cheat’s guide to Dutton’s nuclear power plans
Dec 17, 2024
Why are Australians being poisoned overseas?
Dec 16, 2024
The extraordinary tale of alleged serial swindler ‘Hurricane Tim’
Dec 15, 2024
Inside politics: Was Albanese’s response to the synagogue attack really that bad?
Dec 12, 2024
Why is our PM buying PNG a rugby league team?
Dec 11, 2024
Rupert Murdoch’s power play and the Succession plot that hit close to home
Dec 10, 2024
A synagogue in my old suburb was attacked. I responded in the only way I know how
Dec 09, 2024
‘It’s all in your head’: Medical gender bias and Australian women
Dec 08, 2024
Inside Politics: Niki Savva on why the PM should retire, even if he does win the next election
Dec 05, 2024
Trump no longer wants to drain the swamp. He wants to nuke it
Dec 04, 2024
How the South Korean president's power play became a global crisis
Dec 04, 2024
Plibersek was delivering on an election promise. Why did Albanese kill it off?
Dec 03, 2024
Rebel force takes Aleppo. Why civil war in Syria rages again.
Dec 02, 2024
Death threats and private security, life in a CFMEU under administration
Dec 01, 2024
Inside Politics: A 2024 fire sale, ‘something big’ needed on cost of living
Nov 28, 2024
The Philippines assassination plot announced over Zoom
Nov 27, 2024
Crunch time for the Albanese government
Nov 26, 2024
The Bali Nine: Why the remaining members are, maybe, coming home
Nov 25, 2024
Is Trump the death of sex?
Nov 24, 2024
Inside Politics: Why Peter Dutton is opposing foreign student caps
Nov 21, 2024
Peter Hartcher on the new 'axis of evil' that threatens the West
Nov 20, 2024
How illegal vapes end up in teenage hands, and the dilemma for pharmacists
Nov 19, 2024
‘A stunning development’: Kate McClymont on the arrest of Alan Jones
Nov 18, 2024
The Taliban's new 'terrifying' laws
Nov 17, 2024
Special episode: Facebook accepts scammers' money, helping them take yours
Nov 16, 2024
Inside Politics: What's going on with the Greens?
Nov 14, 2024
The US election: Are Democrats a threat to democracy?
Nov 13, 2024
A new report reveals the level of workplace misconduct within Parliament
Nov 12, 2024
Why the Russian-Ukraine war is at a critical juncture
Nov 11, 2024
Bob Woodward is wrong. American democracy is crumbling
Nov 10, 2024
Inside Politics: Will Dutton be tempted by Trump’s ‘war on woke’?
Nov 07, 2024
Bonus episode: Why women voted for Trump
Nov 07, 2024
What went right for Trump, and so wrong for Harris
Nov 06, 2024
Officials, voters brace for possible violence after US election
Nov 05, 2024
Australia’s student loan system is ‘broken’. Will the PM’s radical plan fix it?
Nov 04, 2024
Inflation is down and the reserve bank meets tomorrow. Is the squeeze over?
Nov 03, 2024
Inside Politics: The PM, the Chairman’s Lounge and business class upgrades
Oct 31, 2024
The polls still put Trump and Harris neck-and-neck. But are we in for a surprise?
Oct 30, 2024
Sex, drugs and harassment alleged in hospitality giant Merivale
Oct 29, 2024
Our dirty laundry: The class war hidden on our clothes racks
Oct 28, 2024
Into the conflict zone
Oct 27, 2024
Inside Politics: We are not America, why are we debating abortion?
Oct 24, 2024
Prabowo, the King, and Albanese’s choice
Oct 23, 2024
One in seven science papers is not to be trusted, says new science paper
Oct 22, 2024
How Australia's 11th richest person became known as 'The LinkedIn Lecher'
Oct 21, 2024
How our brain structure may determine our political beliefs
Oct 20, 2024
Inside Politics: Anthony Albanese and the Copacabana drama
Oct 17, 2024
The curious case of the third 'assassination attempt' of Donald Trump
Oct 16, 2024
The states that could swing Trump v Harris
Oct 15, 2024
A 'huge question mark' on Indigenous policy one year after the Voice
Oct 14, 2024
King Charles in Australia, ‘a monarchy that pretends it’s not’
Oct 13, 2024
Inside Politics: Albanese ‘tripping himself up’ playing both sides of the war
Oct 10, 2024
Why so many millionaires are leaving China
Oct 09, 2024
What Australians think about the Gaza war: it’s not what you’ve heard.
Oct 08, 2024
Does Donald Trump want to turn the US into an autocracy?
Oct 07, 2024
A year on from October 7, the Middle East is on the brink
Oct 06, 2024
Inside Politics: Is Dutton's strategy to derail government agenda working?
Oct 03, 2024
Iran has attacked Israel. Peter Hartcher on what happens next
Oct 02, 2024
The bullying problem with no simple answers, and a tragic young face
Oct 01, 2024
What has happened in Lebanon
Sep 30, 2024
The signs of light at the end of the cost-of-living tunnel
Sep 29, 2024
Inside Politics: The fight the PM has to have
Sep 26, 2024
The world is looking at the Middle East. It shouldn't forget about China
Sep 25, 2024
The promise and peril of Australia's carbon market
Sep 24, 2024
The Easey Street murders, and the secret John Silvester kept for years
Sep 23, 2024
Peter Dutton's 'mysterious' apology
Sep 22, 2024
Inside Politics: Will the government's housing agenda work?
Sep 19, 2024
Should the relatives of Islamic State fighters be returned to Australia?
Sep 18, 2024
Rupert Murdoch's succession saga will affect us all
Sep 17, 2024
A second Trump assassination attempt feels almost normal. That's not OK
Sep 16, 2024
Australian soldiers stripped of medals over suspected war crimes
Sep 15, 2024
Inside Politics: Social media 'crackdown'
Sep 12, 2024
Trump v Harris: One took the bait — the other won the debate
Sep 11, 2024
The tiny town with a big problem
Sep 10, 2024
Kate McClymont and the colourful world of George Alex
Sep 09, 2024
Nick McKenzie on what John Setka did next
Sep 08, 2024
Inside Politics: The Treasurer v The Reserve Bank
Sep 05, 2024
Israeli hostages: Is this the tipping point for ceasefire?
Sep 04, 2024
Why has the weather gone crazy?
Sep 03, 2024
Cathy Wilcox on the power of cartoons
Sep 02, 2024
Bitter symphony: What happened when the Orchestra cancelled a pianist
Sep 01, 2024
Inside Politics: foreign student caps, Greens support CFMEU protests
Aug 29, 2024
Who is Robert F Kennedy Jr?
Aug 28, 2024
Plastic on the brain: Microplastics driving health issues
Aug 27, 2024
'Lost' in space: Why two astronauts can't come home
Aug 26, 2024
Sex, sleaze and Swillhouse: The sinister side of the glitzy hospitality scene
Aug 25, 2024
Inside Politics: Treasurer Jim Chalmers
Aug 22, 2024
Trump and Harris finally reveal their economic policies
Aug 21, 2024
‘So simple it’s hard to believe’: The blunder that’s plunged the Liberal party into crisis
Aug 20, 2024
Why an oil state has been picked to host the world’s most important climate talks
Aug 19, 2024
What life in Gaza is like while Australia debates visas
Aug 18, 2024
Inside Politics: Dutton goes hard on visas for Palestinians
Aug 15, 2024
'We do a terrible job at listening': Peter Hartcher on China's growing threat
Aug 14, 2024
The ‘forgotten’ war close to home we can no longer ignore
Aug 13, 2024
'A tale that needed a villain': Why Linda Reynolds is suing Brittany Higgins
Aug 12, 2024
How our journalist was asked to join a stockmarket scam
Aug 11, 2024
Inside Politics: Lonely men on the internet and why the terror threat was raised
Aug 08, 2024
Can Australia's greatest natural wonder be saved?
Aug 07, 2024