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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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20:06

Japan’s new PM is the 'Trump whisperer'. Will she...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/11

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 amount of power in a historic landslide election win. What will this do to Australia, if she encourages Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to strengthen our ties with the United States? Today, Peter Hartcher on how Australia manages this new relationship with the Japanese prime minister, while heeding calls to decouple from the United

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25:10

Who is Isaac Herzog and why there are protests...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/10

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 police line.Thousands of demonstrators were crushed together as capsicum spray was deployed indiscriminately at close range. Dozens were arrested, and several police officers were allegedly assaulted.People were there to protest a visit to Australia by Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who is in the country following the Bondi terror attack. More protests

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18:18

The politics of Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl’s...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/09

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 recently won three Grammy awards and just performed on the biggest stage in the world as headline act for the NFL Super Bowl’s half-time show, which usually attracts more than 100 million viewers every year.The 29-year-old’s selection and performance have not been without controversy.Today, culture editor-at-large Michael Idato examines why Bad Bunny

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17:16

Gina Rinehart, the disability pensioner and a fight...

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2026/02/08

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 all hours.But what if your neighbour is Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest person? And you’re on a disability pension?Today, investigative reporter Lucy Macken on why the NSW Supreme Court is hearing a case involving feral goats, a 12-kilometre fence and why both women won’t call off the fight.Subscribe to The Age & SMH:

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27:25

Bill Shorten on his random, oblique reference in the...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/05

Today onInside Politics, we welcome back former opposition leader Bill Shorten, who is now the Vice Chancellor of the University of Canberra.It's a timely moment to have Shorten on the podcast as he obliquely (very obliquely, we stress) came up in the Epstein files this week.Strangely, in the massive dump of new documents from the files, there is a text message exchange between Steve Bannon, the former strategist for Donald Trump, and paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.In the messages, Bannon boasts that he

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20:00

The Epstein files troubling Trump and who he’ll...

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2026/02/04

Another tranche - amounting more than 3 million pages - of the Epstein files has been published.The US Department of Justice says this is the final drop, but there are reportedly millions of more pages being kept from view.So is there anything in them that hurts President Donald Trump?Today, international and political editor Peter Hartcher on how the Epstein files are driving Trump's "war pageant".Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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15:30

Why our obsession with interest rates and cost of...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/03

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.But what if many of us are not actually in the cost-of-living crisis that we keep being told that we’re in? And that this new interest rate is comparatively good?Today, senior economics reporter Matt Wade on how obsessing over the cost of living hides the real challenges of our age.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See

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21:50

'A crazy week' ahead: Leadership spills and more...

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2026/02/02

Can the Coalition reunite, after two weeks of political infighting? And will the Liberal and National parties’ leaders, Sussan Ley and David Littleproud, even keep their jobs, given the threats to their leadership that continue to play out, as this episode goes to air?These are only two of the political tripwires that are at high risk of being stepped on, this week; a period that veteran political analyst Sean Kelly calls “absolutely insane”.Today columnist Sean Kelly on this

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17:38

Forged via Facebook. The anti-vax parents faking...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/02/01

"No jab no play” policy means unvaccinated children can’t be enrolled in childcare or preschool in most Australian jurisdictions. But some parents have found ways to evade those laws.According to an investigation by reporter Kayla Olaya, these parents are using Facebook groups to share the contacts of doctors who will falsify their children’s immunisation records. This, as vaccine uptake in Australia has stalled below national targets.Subscribe to The Age & SMH:

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27:25

A funeral, secret plots, and 'wayward children' —...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/29

The drama between the Liberals and the Nationals continued this week with what seems to be a total breakdown in the relationship between Liberal leader Sussan Ley and Nationals leader David Littleproud. Meanwhile, Ley's leadership remains in mortal peril, and in a plot twist, Littleproud faces his own leadership challenge next week. Chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal joins Jacqueline Maley in today's episode.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener

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16:06

‘Numbers, numbers everywhere’: Interest rate rise...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/28

Inflation has risen again, and the markets are already tipping interest rates are likely to increase next week in response. Today, senior economics correspondent Shane Wright explains what is driving the spike in inflation and what it says about where Australia’s economy is headed.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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21:19

Beyond the Alex Pretti video: On the ground in...

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2026/01/27

Two Americans have now been killed by federal agents on the streets of Minneapolis in less than three weeks.Their families say they were sweet, passionate people who could not sit back and watch while masked men snatched members of their community off the streets.The US government, meanwhile, calls them “domestic terrorists” who should not have intervened while agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement - known as ICE - tried to do their work.Former Democratic presidents Barack Obama

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20:47

Nude processing sessions and alleged sexual abuse:...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/26

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 from her case against Ken Dyers reveal a harrowing set of allegations. At the age of 14, she says that Dyers, the leader of the performing arts and social organisation, Kenja, sexually abused her. And she alleges that nine other members of his organisation – all but one of them, women – helped him do it. Dyers was in his early 80s at the

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25:26

The remarkable story of how Timor-Leste is tackling...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/25

More than 25 years ago, photojournalist Kate Geraghty travelled to Timor-Leste to document the struggles of the Timorese people as they wrestled back their independence from a decades-long, and often brutal, Indonesian occupation. Last year, Geraghty returned to Timor-Leste, with health editor Kate Aubusson, where they witnessed a devastating legacy of this struggle: a deep, cultural tradition of withstanding pain.Coupled with a shame about cancer, and a lack of resources, a diagnosis of cervical

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5:34

The Sketch: Tony Wright on the Coalition’s 'ship of...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/23

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 to a verbal cartoon and, when done well, capture a moment in politics.Today, in a bonus episode of Inside Politics, we bring you Wright's sketch on the disintegration of the Coalition, titled: It’s a mess of Titanic proportions on the Coalition’s ship of fools.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See

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38:38

Barnaby Joyce opens up on his defection to Pauline...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/23

One Nation is having a bit of a moment. Pauline Hanson’s outfit, accused by both major parties of exploiting racial anxiety over her career, has faded into irrelevance at points since she burst onto the scene in the late 1990s. But two new polls have recorded record-high primary votes for One Nation. One of them saw One Nation’s vote rise above the Coalition, which split in spectacular fashion this week, over new hate crime legislation in the wake of the Bondi massacre. The break-up of

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14:04

Littleproud fired the gun, but Ley set up the...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/22

We are back with a special episode ofInside Politics as a few things have happened this week - namely the break-up of the Coalition, a century-old political alliance. Nationals leader David Littleproud announced the split on Thursday morning, blaming Liberal leader Sussan Ley in the process. Federal political correspondent Natassia Chrysanthos joins chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal in today's episode.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for

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18:54

Coalition splits – again – over hate speech laws

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/21

The Coalition is in disarray after the resignation of three Nationals frontbenchers on Wednesday. The senators, including Bridget McKenzie, breached shadow cabinet solidarity when they voted against Labor’s hate-crime laws.The spotlight is back on Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s authority as the Coalition is again split on a key policy issue, having already briefly broken up earlier this term.That is no doubt much to the relief of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who has faced a backlash

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20:06

'So much change, so much chaos': One year of Trump 2.0

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/20

Ronald Reagan’s presidency of the 1980s is known as the ‘Reagan Revolution’, while Franklin D Roosevelt - the only president who has served for more than two terms - is known for his reformist agenda.So, now that it’s officially a year on from Donald Trump’s inauguration, for a second time, how does the scale of what he has upended and changed compare?Today North American correspondent Michael Koziol on the deliberate chaos of the Trump presidency, and whether he is

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18:02

The rise and fall of one of Australia’s most powerful...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/19

Kazem Hamad rose rapidly to become one of the nation’s most powerful organised crime players. The syndicate he is accused of heading waged a relentless turf war for control of Australia’s multibillion-dollar illicit tobacco trade, which has seen firebombings around the country. But Hamad’s arrest last week was unexpected, because it happened not in Australia, but thousands of kilometres away in Iraq. Today, senior reporter Chris Vedelago on the capture of one of Australia’s

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