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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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Mark Butler on the NDIS, private health and vaccine hesitancy
When the National Disability Insurance Scheme was created in 2013, it was proof that a rich society could find the money to help people living with a...
Peter Hartcher answers your questions about Iran, Trump and the state of the world
Regular listeners will know Peter Hartcher – he’s our international and political editor and a weekly voice on The Morning Edition, helping us dissect...
The Australian philanthropist and the alleged $1.6 million sequin-studded fraud
It's shaping up to be a story of profound betrayal – if the allegations are proven in court.
On the one hand is one of Australia's most influent...
Trump and the Washington attack: this shooting is different
Within hours of the shooting, right outside where US President Donald Trump was dining at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, the American president was v...
Airtasker of the underworld, offshore gangs and the uniquely Australian crime
Prohibition-era gangs, mafia dons, the notorious Melbourne’s gangland wars and the rise of flashy outlaw motorcycle gangs.
Crime in Austr...
Labor’s baby a ‘honeypot of fraud’ and the gas tax’s viral moment
Today, we are talking about one of the federal budget’s trickiest customers - the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
Labor was once like a pr...
The ‘axis of upheaval’ that's forming against the West
Since the Cold War ended more than 35 years ago, many of us have likely not given much thought to Bloc warfare. Those nuclear threats that the Western...
The likely change to the capital gains tax and the 'Ponzi scheme' of housing
Treasurer Jim Chalmers is slated to make a big change to the tax system, with the centrepiece of the May budget a change to taxing capital gains on pr...
The uprising in women's basketball
There’s been something of a revolt in women’s basketball in the United States, and two Australians – Alanna Smith and Ezi Magbegor – are among the big...
How Lego became the black market’s hottest trade
Just picture it: under the cover of night, police detectives raid a clandestine drug lab in Melbourne belonging to an organised crime gang. But instea...
No ‘drill baby drill’ moment: Chris Bowen on oil shock’s impact on green Australia
A fire at a Geelong oil refinery - one of two refineries left in Australia - has heightened anxiety around fuel supply.
Energy Minister Chris Bo...
Trump or Netanyahu – who pushed who into the Iran war?
Seven weeks into the US-Israel war with Iran, the narrative that Donald Trump was pushed into the war by Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the US president...
My niece needs the NDIS. Yes, it must be cut – but with a scalpel, not a chainsaw
As our journalist James Massola put it, his niece Mattea is like most three-year-olds: boisterous and bursting with energy.
Mattea is also not l...
"Harry and Meghan’s grifting”: What they’re doing Down Under
For years, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have been tanking in popularity polls. Meghan is now the second-most disliked royal, beaten...
Albanese’s gambling reform – big money versus the 'nanny state'
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been slammed – over the course of years – for failing to crack down on the more than 1 million gambling ads broadc...
Matt Canavan on his love of EVs, and calling out Pauline Hanson
The new leader of the Nationals, Matt Canavan, is a former Marxist from the suburbs who was once a Productivity Commission economist and then, a fireb...
Peter Hartcher: Donald Trump is now a ‘genocidal tyrant’
US President Donald Trump has backed down, at the eleventh hour, from his horrifying threat to - as Trump put it himself - unleash destruction on Iran...
Nick McKenzie on the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith
The Australian Federal Police today arrested war hero Ben Roberts-Smith over the war-crimes murders of five unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners dur...
The court judgment that could change the treatment of Australian women giving birth
There was a significant judgment in a Victorian court last week, one that is causing a great deal of controversy in the medical community.
An Australian study linked vaping to cancer for the first time. Why all the backlash?
Many of us probably have a hunch that vaping is bad for our health.
Questions about just how bad have been around for years.
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A national address, nailing down the budget, and Hastie’s ‘striking’ interview
This week we debate the merits of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s national address before getting stuck into what’s happening with the budget. With...
Peter Hartcher: Donald Trump is on the cusp of walking away from Iran
US President Donald Trump says he’s nearly done with the war in Iran, declaring: "We will be leaving very soon." His secretary of state also said on W...
Nick McKenzie on how North Korean spies are infiltrating Australian companies
Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie logged on to a Zoom call to meet the man who said he was Aaron Pierson.
McKenzie was also hiding his real i...
Albanese has a petrol plan. Will it help, or boost inflation?
The government has finally announced its national fuel security plan to help us cope with one of the worst global oil crisis the world has seen.
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The dramatic end to the hunt for Dezi Freeman
In a sudden conclusion to one of Australia’s most intensive manhunts, self-described sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman was shot dead by police on Monday...
After the flood: Exploring the link between disasters and dementia
When the murky and fast-flowing water surged into their house in northern Victoria, Brian and Glenys Mulcahey were determined. They would save their h...
The EU trade deal, and One Nation’s South Australian election
This week, while we were all freaking out about the oil crisis – and rightly so – European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen visited to finali...
Peter Hartcher on why the Iran conflict is spiralling out of control
How can we make heads or tails of where the Iran war is headed, and when it might end, when Donald Trump changes his strategy with whiplash speed?
What the Kyle and Jackie O split says about Australians
As much as we love to hate Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, who for so long ruled Australia's most expensive radio program, the implosion of their show i...
Explaining the petrol problem and whether gas is next
You’ve noticed the hike in prices at the petrol pump, but how high might prices go?
And are we at risk of running out of petrol?
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'Looksmaxxing’ is the dark new trend and Australian men are leading it
"Looksmaxxing" is a trend on social media where, as the name suggests, men aim to "maximise" their appearance in sometimes extreme ways. There are tal...
Is it really time to panic about petrol supply?
This week we’re talking about the enormous global volatility the government is dealing with, courtesy of the US-Israel war on Iran, and whether we nee...
Trump unloads on Australia, and MAGA official quits over Iran war
For someone who has said he’s already won the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump sure is angry.
On Tuesday night, he lashed out at al...
“We don’t know what the harms could be”: when medicinal cannabis doesn’t work
Medicinal cannabis has been increasingly used, legally, to relieve symptoms and treat conditions such as anxiety or chronic pain.
Today, health...
How the 'Great Australian Dream' of home ownership has changed
Housing affordability in Australia is at an all-time low, and it’s left young people rethinking the dream of homeownership – something previous genera...
Do the Oscars ever get it right?
By now, you’ve probably seen the Reddit threads blowing up over which movie should win the best picture Oscar today.
How can Ryan Coogler’s Sinn...
The extraordinary story of the Iranian women's soccer team
This week, we talk about the incredible story of the Iranian women's soccer team, some of whom defected and were given asylum in Australia. It was a w...
Trump's 'need for violence'. And have we joined the war on Iran?
It could be argued that no American president has been as enamoured with violence as Donald Trump. He appears to relish all of it: the spectacle, the...
How the Iranian women’s soccer team escape unfolded
Five female Iranian soccer players, in Australia competing for the Asian Cup, escaped in the night from their handlers to seek refuge from their home...
Reporting from Lebanon: How far will the Iran war expand from here?
Thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes due to Israeli airstrikes and forced evacuations as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah esc...