The Morning Edition
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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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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...
How a group of Australian gamblers beat the Texas lottery
The lieutenant governor of Texas has called it “the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas”. He was referring to the work of A...
Mickey the 'monster': Sinister allegations behind spectacular corporate unravelling
Micky Ahuja catapulted his company MA Services from nothing to the big time to become the security provider of choice to the federal government retail...
The politics of war, and why Peter Dutton was so upset over leaked Liberal Party review
Israel and the United States are at war with Iran in a rapidly escalating conflict that Australia seems to be trying to avoid as much as possible. Tod...
'The MAGA base is splintering': Might Iran break Trump?
Only six days since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, the destruction is mounting. More than 800 people have been killed, including Ira...
Regrets? There are none. David Littleproud on Coalition split and what Nats do next
In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, we’re joined by the Nationals leader David Littleproud.
He’s a man under pressure – commentators, Libe...
The energy vampires next door: Life next to an AI mega-factory
If leading figures of the AI boom, like OpenAI chief Sam Altman, have their way, much of the world (or better yet, space) will be covered in data cent...
Abuse claims against Trump in the missing Epstein files: will it bring him down?
Only days before US President Donald Trump declared war on Iran, another Epstein files bombshell dropped — this one, relating to allegations against t...
US-Iran war: Iran’s government has been ‘decapitated’. What now?
US President Donald Trump's act of war on Iran at the weekend seemed inevitable but nevertheless shocking.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and civilians...
Tim Wilson accused the treasurer of pouring fuel on the inflation flames – is he right?
This week we had some not-so-great inflation figures and also reports that there'll be another interest rate rise right before the government hands do...
What Ukraine’s four-year resistance against Russia teaches us about survival
The Pentagon once said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could succeed in three days. So, as the war rages on, more than four years later, what else h...
Inside Dr Jamal Rifi's mission to bring 'ISIS brides' and children home
Jamal Rifi is the Sydney doctor at the centre of a controversial mission to repatriate the so-called ISIS brides – 34 Australian women and children wh...
Kidnapped, body found: The case of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian
A scream in the night, glass smashing, and dogs barking - these were the first signs that something terrible had happened in a suburban Sydney street....
What it will take for police to charge Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was taken into police custody on his 66th birthday last week, it was the first time in nearly 400 years a British roya...
Designer babies: Healthier, better DNA? Or a gateway to eugenics?
Every parent has the same fiercely held wish for their unborn child: that they're born healthy, and continue to thrive. But how far would you go to ac...
The return of 'ISIS brides’ raises so many questions about what it means to be Australian
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says Australia's ISIS brides - the women trying to return home with their children from Syria - are not getting help f...
The Sketch: Tony Wright on 'Nation's worst government? Jane Hume's hyperbolic historical claim'
Tony Wright, the associate editor of The Age, has been writing for 50 years. He is the master of what we call the political sketch. Sketches are akin...
Trump won’t shelter us. But does Australia really need nuclear weapons?
We are in a dangerous new nuclear age, according to a growing number of world leaders. The signs are not just in Russia’s threats to use its nuclear a...
A Sydney mother, the big bank and the court stoush over $44.11
It should have been a time of celebration for a Sydney woman, who had bought a new home for herself and her daughter.
But as settlement l...
How far will Angus Taylor go to crack down on immigration?
“Our character is essentially Anglo-Celtic and Judaeo-Christian. That's what has made our country attractive to migrants, and we should keep it that w...
The CFMEU ‘crime gang’: A honeypot of money, and a government that looked the other way
Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie’s 2024 exposé of the criminal infiltration of the construction sector prompted a slew of investigations among gov...
Anthony Albanese interview: Police prayer disruption at Herzog protest needs ‘full explanation’
We're bringing you an extra episode of Inside Politics today because Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had an opening in his diary, and he's granted us...
Is government spending really driving inflation?
There’s a bit going on with the Liberal Party this week, but while that unfolds we are going to look at some bigger issues.
Interest rates went...
Japan’s new PM is the 'Trump whisperer'. Will she compel Albanese to follow suit?
The new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is so pro-Donald Trump she’s become known as the “Trump whisperer”. She also just gained an enormous am...
Who is Isaac Herzog and why there are protests everywhere he goes
The violence that unfolded outside Sydney Town Hall on Monday night was ugly. Protesters were punched, kicked and trampled as they tried to breach a p...
The politics of Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl’s half-time show
If you’ve taken a passing glimpse at news over the past week, you would have come across the name Bad Bunny.
The Puerto Rican musician re...
Gina Rinehart, the disability pensioner and a fight over 12km of fencing
We all know how a neighbour with irksome habits can drive us to distraction. Maybe their leafblower is their best friend. Or they blast their music at...
Bill Shorten on his random, oblique reference in the Epstein files
Today on Inside Politics, we welcome back former opposition leader Bill Shorten, who is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra.
I...
The Epstein files troubling Trump and who he’ll threaten next
Another tranche - amounting more than 3 million pages - of the Epstein files has been published.
The US Department of Justice says this i...
Why our obsession with interest rates and cost of living is a problem
The Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate for the first time in two years yesterday, to 3.85 per cent. Exactly as mortgage holders have been fearing.
'A crazy week' ahead: Leadership spills and more Liberal defections
Can the Coalition reunite, after two weeks of political infighting? And will the Liberal and National parties’ leaders, Sussan Ley and David Littlepro...
Forged via Facebook. The anti-vax parents faking child health records
"No jab no play” policy means unvaccinated children can’t be enrolled in childcare or preschool in most Australian jurisdictions. But some parents hav...
A funeral, secret plots, and 'wayward children' — another messy week for the Coalition
The drama between the Liberals and the Nationals continued this week with what seems to be a total breakdown in the relationship between Liberal leade...
‘Numbers, numbers everywhere’: Interest rate rise likely, but what does it all mean?
Inflation has risen again, and the markets are already tipping interest rates are likely to increase next week in response.
Today, senior econom...
Beyond the Alex Pretti video: On the ground in Minneapolis
Two Americans have now been killed by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis in less than three weeks.
Their families say they were...
Nude processing sessions and alleged sexual abuse: The cult still operating in Australia
She was given the pseudonym XC, by a court, to protect her identity. And she’s never spoken publicly about her experience. But the court documents fro...
The remarkable story of how Timor-Leste is tackling cervical cancer
More than 25 years ago, photojournalist Kate Geraghty travelled to Timor-Leste to document the struggles of the Timorese people as they wrestled back...