The Morning Edition

By The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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Subscribers: 573
Reviews: 3
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 thing that flummoxed the Reserve Bank
Feb 20, 2025
Is Germany on the brink of bringing back the far right?
Feb 19, 2025
Cocaine submarines – Australia's new drug frontier
Feb 18, 2025
This 10-minute trip cost $325: Rampant rorting in taxi industry
Feb 17, 2025
A 'madman' or a player: Trump and the Nixon ploy at work
Feb 16, 2025
Inside Politics: Steel, macho men and the PM’s phone call with Trump
Feb 13, 2025
What happened to the humble sunscreen?
Feb 12, 2025
‘Locking up the bush’: Inside the national parks culture wars
Feb 11, 2025
This byelection result is an acid test for Australian politics
Feb 10, 2025
Can you be fired for posting about Gaza?
Feb 09, 2025
Inside Politics: The PM’s ‘milquetoast’ response to Trump’s Gaza plan
Feb 06, 2025
‘Stupid and white’: What’s happening in the Sam Kerr trial
Feb 05, 2025
How many episodes of Bluey are too many?
Feb 04, 2025
'Dumbest trade war in history': What are Trump's tariffs
Feb 03, 2025
How Belle Gibson’s cancer con was exposed by two young journalists
Feb 02, 2025
Best of 2024: Niki Savva on why the PM should retire, even if he does win the next election
Jan 30, 2025
Why police kept quiet about a caravan full of explosives
Jan 30, 2025
AC/DC - why did Sydney bulldoze an icon?
Jan 29, 2025
A front-row seat to the biggest story in the world
Jan 28, 2025
I was at the centre of an Elon storm – and survived
Jan 27, 2025
What 1000 hours of dialogue between Palestinians and Jews has taught this journalist about peace
Jan 26, 2025
Best of 2024: Will Dutton be tempted by Trump’s ‘war on woke’?
Jan 23, 2025
Are 'criminals for hire' really behind Australia's antisemitic attacks?
Jan 23, 2025
Secret men's business: The private clubs of Melbourne and why they still exist
Jan 22, 2025
The unexpected opportunities under a second Trump presidency
Jan 21, 2025
Why Novak Djokovic is feuding with a Channel Nine presenter
Jan 20, 2025
Albanese’s popularity has plummeted. Will it cost him the election?
Jan 19, 2025
Best of 2024: What is doxxing, plus Barnaby's spill and a PM's wedding
Jan 16, 2025
What we know about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire - and why Trump is claiming credit
Jan 16, 2025
Has Russia killed an Australian prisoner of war?
Jan 15, 2025
A new species of funnel web has been discovered – and it’s a monster
Jan 14, 2025
The LA wildfires were years in the making
Jan 13, 2025
Why does Trump want to buy Greenland?
Jan 12, 2025
Special episode: Nuclear radiation took her father’s eyesight. Now Karina’s fighting Dutton’s nuclear proposal
Jan 10, 2025
Best of 2024: What’s going on with the Greens?
Jan 09, 2025
The occupier and the occupied: a tale of an ambassador and an envoy
Jan 08, 2025
The downfall of Justin Trudeau
Jan 07, 2025
Is coffee about to become a luxury item?
Jan 06, 2025
The housing problems John Howard couldn’t fix
Jan 05, 2025
Best of 2024: What does Australia's shift on Palestinian statehood mean?
Jan 02, 2025
Best of 2024: ‘It’s all in your head’: Medical gender bias and Australian women
Jan 01, 2025
Best of 2024: Bob Woodward is wrong. American democracy is crumbling
Dec 31, 2024
Best of 2024: Gina Rinehart and the portraits that captivated the world
Dec 30, 2024
Best of 2024: How bikies, underworld figures have infiltrated our construction industry
Dec 29, 2024
Best of 2024: Dutton's nuclear plans 'slightly bonkers', but will it win an election?
Dec 26, 2024
Best of 2024: The extraordinary fallout of the Trump shooting that rocked the world
Dec 25, 2024
Best of 2024: Unpacking the extraordinary Bruce Lehrmann judgment
Dec 23, 2024
Best of 2024: The secret society you didn’t know existed is tearing itself apart
Dec 22, 2024
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