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The Morning Edition

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald

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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14:31

Has Russia killed an Australian prisoner of war?

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/15

Australians woke, on Wednesday morning, to the news that Oscar Jenkins, a former teacher from Melbourne, was feared to have been killedin Ukraine, after being captured by Russian forces. Jenkins had been fighting to help combat Russian President Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. And now, he’s believed to be the first Australian to have been held as a prisoner of war, during this conflict. Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent Matthew Knott, on whether

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14:54

A new species of funnel web has been discovered – and...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/14

The Sydney funnel web spider is the deadliest spider on earth. Actually, let me correct that. Itwas, until a new species of the Sydney funnel web was recently discovered.The original wasn’t exactly a species to be toyed with. Just last month, a so-called miracle baby - born from a transplanted uterus - was left in critical condition after being bitten by one. But the new species is - and here I’ll quote our science reporter, Angus Dalton - “a certified monster.”Today, Angus

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16:27

The LA wildfires were years in the making

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/13

Exhausted firefighters are making slow progress against three fires raging in Los Angeles. The fires have claimed at least 24 lives and displaced over 100,000 residents. The world watched on in horror as the elderly were evacuated in wheelchairs against a fiery backdrop, Hollywood’s biggest stars’ mourned their scorched homes on social media, and abandoned cars were bulldozed in a heap to clear roads. But the worst may not be over, with extreme wind conditions forecast over coming days

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18:31

Why does Trump want to buy Greenland?

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/12

So, Donald Trump wants to expand the United States - in a big way. But why is he considering seizing Greenland, of all places - and by military force, no less? And why does he want to reclaim the Panama Canal,andabsorb Canada?Trump’s comments aren’t just, as one commentator put it, “untethered from international law”. They’ve also angered many world leaders. And made others laugh. One president responded with a troll of her own.Today, North America correspondent Farrah

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27:39

Special episode: Nuclear radiation took her father’s...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/10

When opposition leader Peter Dutton proposed nuclear energy reactors on almost every mainland state in June last year, he reignited divisive public debate. It’s a debate Indigenous Australians are unwillingly at the heart of. A story that starts in the 1950s, when radioactive fallout from bomb tests caused illness among Aboriginal communities that were not adequately protected by the government of the day. Today, audio producer Julia Carr-Catzel brings us a special edition of The Morning

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21:03

Best of 2024: What’s going on with the Greens?

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/09

Hi there, I’m Jacqueline Maley, the host of Inside Politics, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly politics podcast. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before we return in early February for the election year. Last year was a big one for the Greens, often called the third party of Australian politics. They took what was seen as a hardline stance backing Palestinians in the war with Israel, owned the issue of affordable housing, and controversially came to the

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19:27

The occupier and the occupied: a tale of an...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/08

They’re on opposite sides of one of the world’s most violent political conflicts, representing groups who often express extreme animosity towards each other. One refers to them as the occupied and the occupier. But what do the Israeli and Palestinian representatives in Australia make ofeach other? Especially now, when relations between Israel and Australia are if not at an all-time low, then pretty close to it? Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent Matthew Knott, on

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19:54

The downfall of Justin Trudeau

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/07

In what has to be one of the more stunning political reversals of fortune, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has resigned. So, what happened to the former golden boy of progressive politics? He was, after all, the man seen as the ‘good cop’ in North American politics, for so long - the counterpoint to Donald Trump.Today, digital foreign editor Chris Zappone on the downfall of Justin Trudeau, after nearly a decade in power. And how a new Canadian prime minister might impact the rest

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14:11

Is coffee about to become a luxury item?

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/06

If you’ve been reading recent headlines about coffee prices you might be thinking: what fresh hell is this? We’re being told that, by year’s end, a cup of coffee could cost as much as - wait for it - twelve dollars. Today, business reporter Jessica Yun, on why the beverage so many of us rely on to cope with each day could soon become a luxury item.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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18:06

The housing problems John Howard couldn’t fix

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/05

We’ve been living through a housing crisis for so long, that sometimes it feels as though it’s been with us forever. But when did it actually start? And what would it take to make the dream to own your own home once again within reach? For the first time, thanks to newly unlocked cabinet papers from 2004, we now know more about what role former Prime Minister John Howard and his treasurer, Peter Costello, played, in arguably contributing to house prices that have, well, gone insane

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25:37

Best of 2024: What does Australia's shift on...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/02

Hi there, I’m Jacqueline Maley, the host of Inside Politics, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly politics podcast. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before we return in early February for the election year. In this episode, which aired in April, we take you to the moment Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong signalled the start of a shift in Australia’s position on the question of Palestinian statehood in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. Since then,

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22:32

Best of 2024: ‘It’s all in your head’: Medical gender...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/01/01

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. Today, we revisit the start of an investigation into medical misogyny experienced by Australian women. Health editor Kate Aubusson and senior writer Wendy Touhy delve into an invisible epidemic that has its roots in Ancient Greece.Subscribe to The

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19:17

Best of 2024: Bob Woodward is wrong. American...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/31

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. There’s been a lot of commentary on how Donald Trump won the US presidential election, but what about the big picture? International and political editor Peter Hartcher, who has covered politics for more than 40 years, explains what a Trump

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17:32

Best of 2024: Gina Rinehart and the portraits that...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/30

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. It’s not every day that an Australian artwork gets thrust into the global spotlight, let alone become a punchline on a hugely popular American late night talk show. But that all changed, after news broke that Australia’s richest woman

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18:58

Best of 2024: How bikies, underworld figures have...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/29

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. Today we’re taking you to the start of such a big story that the fall-out from it is still reverberating - the CFMEU scandal. Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, who broke the story, explains how the powerful construction union was

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21:42

Best of 2024: Dutton's nuclear plans 'slightly...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/26

Hi there, I’m Jacqueline Maley, the host of Inside Politics, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly politics podcast. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before we return in early February for the election year. One of the big issues of the federal election will be energy policy, with the opposition backing nuclear power over wind and solar as its path to a greener, cleaner world. This episode aired just after Coalition leader Peter Dutton first unveiled his

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17:38

Best of 2024: The extraordinary fallout of the Trump...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/25

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. Donald J Trump was probably the story of 2024. The assassination attempts, and then, his election as the next president of the United States. Today, we go back to the first attempt on Trump’s life, at a rally in Pennsylvania, in the hours

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16:59

Best of 2024: Unpacking the extraordinary Bruce...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/23

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. Today we’re revisiting one of the biggest stories of the year, the defamation trial brought by a former Liberal staffer by the name of Bruce Lehrmann. In the episode, which aired in April, Legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitebourn details

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20:21

Best of 2024: The secret society you didn’t know...

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/22

Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January. Today, we’re bringing you an episode that was a deep-dive into the oldest fraternal organisation in the world, the Freemasons. Investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve entered the secret world of the Freemasons, in which it’s against

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19:04

Inside Politics: The best and worst of 2024

The Morning Edition ·

2024/12/19

If things are supposed to be slowing down for Christmas, well, nobody told our federal politicians. This week we had a mid-year economic update and a contentious debate about the Coalition’s nuclear energy plans. Today, chief political correspondent David Crowe joins Jacqueline Maley to look back at the political year and explore some of its themes. Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics

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