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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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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...
Charlie Kirk memorial: love, hate and Trump’s vow for the future
For many people who watched the coverage of Charlie Kirk’s memorial, it was the sounds that struck them the most.
The triumphant 60,000 c...
Life, death and Optus: Should the telcos be trusted to run Triple Zero?
Optus is in the firing line once again over an outage that left customers unable to call Triple Zero for 13 hours.
In that time, four people di...
No fry zone: Should councils be able to block fast food outlets?
Once upon a time, the dangers of eating too much fast food were at the front of our minds thanks to documentaries like Super Size Me. But that was mor...
Coalition combust over net zero. Will the anti-climate action stance work?
The government announced its 2035 emissions reduction target this week, committing Australia to climate action despite a retreat from the United State...
A primer on Australia’s climate target
A flurry of numbers relating to climate change have been tossed around all week.
But what do they mean?
Today, environment and climate rep...
Why Gen-Z fury led to destruction in Nepal
Three years ago, mainstream newspapers in the West had a bit of fun ridiculing so-called nepo-babies, and the unfair advantage enjoyed by the children...
From children’s entertainer to political celebrity. The rise of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s charisma has led to her meteoric rise, and also, to her recent relegation to the back bench.
Lambasted for her...
‘The cult of the leader’: The professor who left America says fascism is flourishing
US President Donald Trump is a fascist, running an authoritarian regime.
We hear this allegation a lot, now. But is he? Really?
Fascism ex...
Why the sacking of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could turn the senator ‘into a martyr’
Controversial Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was sacked from the Coalition frontbench this week. Price left Opposition Leader Sussan Ley wit...
Why Australia is trying to out-woo China for influence in the Pacific
When we think of countries trying to show the world their power and influence, we might think of muscular shows of force, like China’s army parading i...
'Like an episode of the Sopranos': Life inside the clean-up of the CFMEU
More than a year ago, the CFMEU – one of Australia’s most powerful unions – was placed into administration, after an investigation by our mastheads, a...
'No remorse, no pity': The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
So now we know: Erin Patterson will be 82 before she gets the chance to get out of jail; if she gets out at all.
This will make her one o...
The ‘tradwife’ movement: All flax and linen, or a pipeline to fascism?
Year 9 debaters in South Australia were given a topic for the third round of their debating competition a few months ago. The topic was whether the ''...
The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point
Political debate was dominated this week by the topic of immigration after anti-immigration rallies in major cities last weekend.
Politic...
Yulia Navalnaya’s blunt message about Putin, the president who murdered her husband
Almost immediately after Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny was murdered by the Kremlin last year, in an arctic penal colony, Russian president V...
Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?
The whispering forests and deep valleys of Victoria’s high country have long provided refuge for those on the run.
Think of Ned Kelly and his g...
March for Australia: Why weren’t neo-Nazis stopped?
Violent clashes, police with pepper spray and chants of “Heil Australia”. These were the scenes we saw over the weekend, as thousands of Australians m...
When is it genocide? And is it happening in Gaza?
Venture to a pro-Palestinian rally at one of Australia’s capital cities, and you’ll invariably hear calls to “end the genocide” in Gaza.
...
Like a spy novel: How Iran orchestrated attacks on Australian shores
This week Canberra turned into a John le Carre novel, with the stunning revelation from the head of ASIO Mike Burgess, that the state of Iran directed...
Porepunkah police shooting: What is the sovereign citizen movement?
As we record this episode, the Victorian High Country is the scene of an intense hunt for a man accused of shooting and killing two police officers, a...
‘Aimed at breaking social cohesion’: Iran blamed for antisemitic attacks on Australian soil
Many will remember a spate of frightening attacks against Jewish communities in both Sydney and Melbourne last year, including firebombings, vandalism...
First home buyers can afford a mortgage, but not a deposit. So will the new 5% scheme make a difference?
If you’re in your 20s or 30s, or have someone in your life who’s in that age bracket, you know that the struggle to buy a home is real.
So, wha...
More Australians are using AI now, but is it lying to us?
AI chat bots are fast becoming a part of everyday life with more than half of all Australians using them regularly, although just over a third of thos...