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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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16:47

Best of 2023: Stan Grant, the ABC, and Australia’s...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/28

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. In May 2023, Stan Grant announced that he would be leaving the ABC and standing down as the host of its Q+A program. His decision, and the torrent of abuse that prompted it, has led to a reckoning about how responsible the media is for the racism that pervades our culture. On this episode, culture news editor Osman Faruqi joins Samantha Selinger-Morris to discuss Stan Grant, the ABC and Australia's racism problem. This episode first aired on May

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17:14

Best of 2023: The trial of Malka Leifer

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/27

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. A jury has found Malka Leifer guilty of rape and indecent assault, drawing a close to a trial that had been a decade in the making. The former principal of the ultra-orthodox Jewish school had been accused of sexually abusing former students in Melbourne in the early to mid-2000s. After a lengthy battle to extradite Leifer from Israel in 2021, her trial began this year. She has maintained her innocence and pleaded not guilty to all charges,

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17:34

Best of 2023: How millions of dollars in detention...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/26

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. Australia's Home Affairs Department used vast sums of taxpayer money to fund suspect payments to powerful Pacific Island politicians, specifically to run offshore processing of asylum seekers on Nauru and Manus Island. A major investigation by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald has found a secret money trail beginning in Home Affairs coffers and ending with payments to bank accounts controlled by powerful Pacific Island politicians. The

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14:32

Best of 2023: Why are thousands of students enrolled...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/25

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. They stand largely empty, hiding in plain sight, their little-used classrooms scattered through office buildings in cities across the country. In the exploding foreign education industry, they call them ‘ghost colleges’. These colleges are supposed to be providing tens of thousands of international students with an education. But in reality, many of them are near deserted. On this episode, investigative reporter Clay Lucas joins Samantha

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16:41

Best of 2023: Could an unexpected group of delegates...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/24

Today, we're bringing you an episode from our archive. It’s been 17 years since Julian Assange created Wikileaks, the online publisher of classified documents that has changed politics forever. For eleven of those years, Assange has either been in hiding, or in prison. But why is Assange still in prison? When American whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years for leaking secret government files to Wikileaks, has already been set free? On this episode, foreign affairs and national

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20:57

Inside Politics: Interest rates, housing...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/21

It has been a busy year in Australian politics. We voted no to the Voice to Parliament. Three state premiers resigned. The government legislated industrial relations changes and housing affordability measures. But the throughline of the year, and the main concern of ordinary voters, was the state of the economy, and the government’s handling of it. We had the scourge of stubborn inflation and the RBA’s ratcheting up of interest rates. And we had a housing affordability problem that politicians

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14:15

'A live performance’: Higgins, Lehrmann and the...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/20

We have been bystanders to the saga of the Bruce Lehrmann and Brittany Higgins case for nearly three years now. If one thing has defined the devastating set of lawsuits, it’s been a lack of definitive answers about allegations that a rape occurred in the office of then-defence industry minister, Linda Reynolds. And whether the government at the time orchestrated a cover-up. Lehrmann has always strenuously denied raping Higgins, insisting that the pair had no sexual contact at all. Today, associate

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15:22

The Democrats chose Biden because he could beat...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/19

Back in April, the Democrats officially chose Joe Biden to run for the American presidency next year, because he could beat Donald Trump. But that was then.Since then, Biden’s approval has begun to tank. And voters of all stripes have reportedly been clutching their foreheads in despair. These are the candidates? An 81-year-old, and a would-be criminal with a fondness for quoting Hitler?Bruce Wolpe, who served on the Democratic staff in the US Congress during President Barack Obama’s first term, has

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15:22

Inside the 'fraud and bribery' that sank a $1b...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/18

When an Australian company called Phoslock first hit the market, its sell was hard to resist. Phoslock had created an innovative clay product that had the power to get rid of pollution in waterways around the world. But a new investigation reveals a host of worrying allegations against the company including suspected bribery, money paid to dump polluted water and an alleged cover-up of a wrongful death. Today, investigative reporter Nick McKenzie on the suspect behaviours that led to Phoslock’s

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18:10

Inside the court case that exposed Gina Rinehart’s...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/17

It’s a real-life Succession saga. And it’s taking place right on our doorstep. We’re talking, of course, about the civil lawsuit that Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, is embroiled in, with two other families. Not to mention two of her own children. They are all battling over more than a billion dollars in royalties from iron ore mines that her father discovered back in the 1950s. Is the fight worth it? The cost for Rinehart, even if she wins, could still be high. Because for years, the

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20:31

Inside Politics: Why the Albanese government is now...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/14

At the United Nations headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, Australia voted in favour of a United Nations resolution calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The UN vote coincided with a separate development in Australia’s position on Gaza. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to issue a statement supporting a pause in the fighting in Gaza and efforts towards a sustainable

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16:33

The tobacco wars, and rise of a ruthless new kingpin

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/13

For months, Melbourne’s underworld has been plagued by escalating violence. Bashings, a public execution, even the desecration of the grave of one crime boss’ sister. Firebombings have also become increasingly common, whereby shops are set alight and gutted by flames. One of the main targets: tobacco stores. So many have been hit, that a new era of gangland warfare in Melbourne has gained its own moniker: the “tobacco wars”.For more than eight years, my colleague, law and justice editor Chris

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15:53

Penny Wong's fight for a two-state solution

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/12

Is our foreign minister about to jump ship? So went the rumours, recently, around the press gallery, in Canberra. Elsewhere, too, people have tried to diminish Penny Wong. The fact that she hasn’t visited the Middle East, since she landed the job of foreign minister, 18 months ago? It’s just not good enough, according to the opposition. And why isn't she doing more to broker peace in the Middle East? But for a staggering amount of ordinary Australians, Penny Wong is something of a unicorn. Not only

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19:31

The mounting accusations against Alan Jones

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/11

For decades, radio broadcaster Alan Jones was king of the airwaves. Often using a bullying and vitriolic tone on his show, he held powerful figures up to scrutiny. And even while rumours about questionable behaviour towards young men swirled over the years, Alan Jones remained one of the most influential and feared figures in the country. Now, a major investigation can reveal allegations that Jones used his position of power to prey on a number of young men; allegedly indecently assaulting, groping

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14:56

Why thousands of New Zealanders are protesting...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/10

The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’s founding document, an agreement between the Crown and Maori tribes, sets out the rights and political power of the Maori people. But now, a massive unravelling is taking place, with a new coalition government pushing to reinterpret the country’s founding document. Since taking office in October, the National, Act and New Zealand First parties have scrapped a world-leading smoking ban and plan to roll-back use of Maori language. Today, political editor for New

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20:22

Inside Politics: Peter Dutton’s perfect political storm

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/07

This week the government struggled to manage its response to the High Court’s landmark November ruling, that indefinite detention is illegal. As a result of the decision, about 150 non-citizens have been released from custody, and this week it emerged that four of them have allegedly reoffended since their release. This includes a former detainee and convicted multiple rapist who was arrested on an indecent assault charge, and another man, a registered sex offender, who was arrested on charges of

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13:45

Sole destroying: How surgeons wield scalpels without...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/06

Imagine that you find out that the person you thought was a doctor - a surgeon who operated on you - didn’t have a medical degree. This is the case for all podiatric surgeons in Australia, practitioners who can legally pick up a knife with only a podiatry or science degree. Maybe that’s fine if the issue you had with your foot, or ankle, was fixed. But, a joint investigation by The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes, has uncovered dozens of allegations of surgeries gone wrong by a small,

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15:37

Peter Hartcher on a new weapon of war, and its...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/05

Has Australia started an arms race with China? It’s a question that is sometimes lobbed at Australia’s defence community. Consider the facts, on the surface. Australia entered a pact with the United States and the United Kingdom, two years ago, that will give Australia its first nuclear-powered submarines. And now we’re reading about how China is readying its naval fleet to welcome not just nuclear-powered submarines, but nuclear armed submarines. But, says International and Political editor Peter

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13:48

A country three hours away from Australia is the next...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/04

Honiara is a small city just three hours by plane from Australia, where many of the locals struggle on a daily basis. They grapple with poverty, crime, and unemployment. Some health care centres in town are breaking down; others are running out of paracetamol. This, even though Chinese state-backed companies are investing hundreds of millions of dollars into the Solomon Islands. As one landowner said of Chinese investors who are failing to fulfil their promises to the locals: “They are treating us

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13:58

From bitcoin to bust: How the world's biggest ponzi...

The Morning Edition ·

2023/12/03

It has been called the world's biggest ever cryptocurrency ponzi scheme. The scheme, allegedly the work of South African con artist Johannes Steynberg, is estimated to have scammed $2.6 billion from consumers worldwide. But it’s the details behind the figures that read like something out of a Netflix special. Like how the alleged conman escaped to South America, to be with his mistress, and evade authorities. And the angry investors who became citizen investigators, and helped the authorities to

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