The Morning Edition

By The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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Subscribers: 576
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
The private ultrasounds putting mothers and babies at risk
Apr 06, 2025
Inside Politics: What actually happens on the campaign bus
Apr 03, 2025
What do Trump's tariffs mean for Australia?
Apr 03, 2025
Turnbull spoke ‘plain truths’ about Trump. We should probably listen
Apr 02, 2025
More fossil fuels? Dutton’s shock new gas proposal
Apr 01, 2025
Why migration is predicted to plummet
Mar 31, 2025
Inside Politics: The perils of the campaign trail
Mar 31, 2025
The dodgy vet, the pet detective and the million-dollar legal battle
Mar 30, 2025
Inside Politics Bonus: What to expect from the election campaign
Mar 28, 2025
Inside Politics: Peter Dutton’s speech, and let the election begin 
Mar 27, 2025
America is becoming more like China. Is this Trump's end game?
Mar 26, 2025
Budget 2025: Labor’s surprise tax cuts
Mar 25, 2025
What’s wrong with the Botox gold rush happening online
Mar 24, 2025
‘Never kiss the ring: How Canada is fighting Trump’
Mar 23, 2025
Inside Politics: The budget drop-a-thon
Mar 20, 2025
It's not only Trump, America's inequality is 'savage'
Mar 19, 2025
The tobacco tax causing carnage in our streets
Mar 18, 2025
The subs that launched a thousand...questions. On board the AUKUS submarine
Mar 17, 2025
Is CFMEU corruption any closer to being stamped out?
Mar 16, 2025
Inside Politics: How our reporter helped to break the Trump tariff story
Mar 13, 2025
Peter Hartcher on Trump's tariff war, and what it means for Australia
Mar 12, 2025
Dutton’s work from home culture war
Mar 11, 2025
Cyclone Alfred and insurance: Will our premiums ever drop?
Mar 10, 2025
Is Albo coming to a 'bro-cast' near you?
Mar 09, 2025
Inside Politics: Cyclone Trump, Alfred and the forces sweeping an election awry
Mar 06, 2025
The ‘evidence is in’: Trump is an agent of Putin
Mar 05, 2025
Bracing for impact – Cyclone Alfred looms large
Mar 04, 2025
The Zelensky-Trump dust-up: What happens next?
Mar 03, 2025
David Wenham on Australia’s love of the underdog
Mar 02, 2025
Inside Politics: How much cash does Peter Dutton have?
Feb 27, 2025
Peter Hartcher on the China bind and his spat with Keating
Feb 26, 2025
'Just as political as Conclave’: Choosing the next Pope
Feb 25, 2025
Bikies-for-hire? Spy agency shifts focus in antisemitic attacks
Feb 24, 2025
Why was an Australian artist pulled from the Venice Biennale?
Feb 23, 2025
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