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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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15:20

Aus Open prize money is at an all-time high. But are...

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/18

When Australian Open stars, such as Carlos Alcaraz and Aryna Sabalenka, hit the courts this week, they’ll do so with the support of screaming fans, massive sponsorship deals, and a shot at a record-breaking prize haul. But what of those who aren’t even close to being world No.1?For them, the journey to the Open is often a juggle to make ends meet – one of scrimping and saving – sometimes without a paid coach, let alone a sponsor.Today, sports reporter Marc McGowan on whether

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29:19

Best of 2025: Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump...

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2026/01/15

Inside Politics is still on a break, but we’re set to return in two weeks. Today, we return to an episode released just after Anthony Albanese’s successful meeting with Donald Trump, and one in which we had a special guest - former Labor opposition leader Bill Shorten. Bill also has some advice for the opposition, and its leader Sussan Ley, before a slight diversion to discussing the dress sense of our chief political correspondent, Paul Sakkal.Subscribe to The Age & SMH:

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20:53

Why Kevin Rudd resigned, and what it means for our...

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2026/01/14

When Kevin Rudd announced on Monday that he would leave his post as ambassador to the United States a year early, it was a penny-drop moment for many. Wasn’t this inevitable since his incredibly awkward meeting with US President Donald Trump in the White House in October? Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent Matthew Knott on where this leaves our relationship with the most mercurial US president in recent memory.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See

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26:37

Is the Iranian regime about to collapse?

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2026/01/13

The protests that have been spreading across Iran for weeks have been growing more violent. Video footage showedand eye witnesses described security forces opening fire on protesters, while reports from human rights agencies say the death toll is in the thousands .But could these protests tip over into a counter-revolution? Might Iran’s brutal Supreme Leader AyatollahAli Khamenei and his regime be overthrown?Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian Middle Easternscholar, spent 804 days in an Iranian

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20:40

Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's...

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2026/01/12

While firefighters in Victoria battle devastating bush fires that have destroyed homes and livestock, at the other end of the country, Queenslanders were bracing for floods from ex-tropical cyclone Koji. Today, David Bowman, a professor of pyrogeography and fire science at the University of Tasmania, on what causes this climate whiplash and how our changing climate is worsening our extreme weather.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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16:30

First Trump invaded Venezuela. But it may not be...

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2026/01/11

On the first day of the new year, Donald Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social, what he wanted for 2026. And I quote, “Peace, peace on earth”. Two days later, Trump invaded Venezuela. And now, the American president is threatening to invade at least fourother countries. Today, Bruce Wolpe, senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre, and a former congressional staffer, on whether Trump’s imperialist aggression, and a recent mutiny of more than a dozen top-ranking

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23:26

Best of 2025: Albanese meets with Trump next week....

The Morning Edition ·

2026/01/08

We’re on a break over summer, our dear chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal is probably off to a yoga retreat somewhere in Bali, and we return at the end of January for another fun-filled year of Inside Politics. Well, we can’t ignore the impact that Donald Trump had on domestic politics last year and for this episode, we return to a point in time when most of the press pack was obsessed with whether Anthony Albanese will meet with the US president. It finally happened, and we

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18:48

Best of 2025: Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like...

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2026/01/07

Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns on Monday. In August, two police officers were shot and killed at a property in Victoria’s high country and suspected murderer, Dezi Freeman, went on the run. Now, more than four months later, he is still missing. In this episode, associate editor and special writer Tony Wright takes us to the whispering forests

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17:50

Best of 2025: Women were once ‘essential’ to the...

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2026/01/06

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week. Last May, the incumbent Labor government swept to power while the Liberal Party suffered an election wipeout, with women voters, in particular, shunning the party. In this episode, recorded just after the election result, political and international editor Peter Hartcher traces the Liberals’ surprising history of embracing the female vote and how that crucial vote was lost in 2025.Subscribe

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19:09

Best of 2025: What is freebirthing?

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2026/01/05

Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and I’m the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week. With the tragic death of a wellness influencer after the birth of her child at home in Melbourne, the practice of freebirthing was thrust into the spotlight last year. In this episode, senior writer Wendy Tuohy takes us through the nuances of homebirthing, a woman’s right to choose where she has her

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17:32

Best of 2025: Why gangland figure Tony Mokbel could...

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2026/01/04

Today we’re heading back to a court in Melbourne with crime writer Chris Vedelago. It was the day when one of the last remaining figures from the city’s gangland war, Tony Mokbel, was released on bail thanks to a legal scandal like no other. Mokbel had convictions quashed over the so-called ‘Lawyer X’ saga and since this episode was aired, he was freed from prison. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week.

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26:46

Best of 2025: The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the...

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2026/01/01

Happy New Year. We’re on a break over summer - lucky us - before we return at the end of January for another year of Inside Politics. Today, we’re returning to an episode recorded in the wake of the divisive ‘March for Australia’ protests, which became the vehicle for a hodgepodge of causes, including immigration, an issue that would lead to Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s sacking from the frontbench. The episode features chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal and federal

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19:25

Best of 2025: Chifley, Hawke, Rudd. Albanese beat...

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2025/12/31

Remember how there was a federal election? In this episode, we return to Anthony Albanese's astonishing landslide victory in May with former chief political correspondent David Crowe and senior economics correspondent Shane Wright. Crowe and Wright reflect on how history-making the win was, and what Albanese will do with his mandate.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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23:45

Best of 2025: How a dancing Robert Irwin became...

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2025/12/30

Today, we return to a good news story as we kick off a new year. The fame of Robert Irwin, the son of ‘crocodile hunter’ Steve Irwin, was supercharged recently when he won one of America's top reality television shows,Dancing with the Stars. Our culture editor-at-large Michael Idato delves into the Irwin family empire and how Robert Irwin’s brand of “nice” won over America. And we hope you have a safe and happy new year.Subscribe to The Age & SMH:

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23:27

Best of 2025: The lawyer (and author) who represented...

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2025/12/29

As we say goodbye to 2025, we can only hope we also see an end to the swirling chaos of multiple wars that raged across the world, and in the case of the Israel-Gaza conflict, fractured so much of our society. Today we return to a special episode with British barrister and human rights lawyer Phillipe Sands, who defended Palestine at the International Court of Justice, on how to retain compassion and integrity in our fragmented world. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your

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15:22

Best of 2025: The tobacco tax causing carnage in our...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/12/28

A tax on tobacco seemed like a great idea to deter smokers and raise revenue. But, as the price of cigarettes soared, major criminal organisations saw an opening, and began to pump cheap, illegal cigarettes into Australia. And violence came along with it as warring gangs fought for control of the trade in our major cities. Today, with your Morning Edition team on a summer break, we return to an episode with senior economics correspondent Shane Wright on the tobacco tax problem.Subscribe to The Age &

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25:22

Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for...

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2025/12/25

Hi and Merry Christmas! Your Inside Politics team is on a little hiatus over summer before we return at the end of January. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy some of our favourite episodes of the year, starting with a trip down memory lane to election night with our former chief political correspondent David Crowe before he passed the baton to BFF of the podcast Paul Sakkal.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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17:23

Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the...

The Morning Edition ·

2025/12/24

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. It was another big year for the human headline that was U.S President Donald Trump, and political and international editor Peter Hartcher was an essential listen each week on our podcast as we tried to make sense of it all. This episode was recorded in May, just as Trump was poised to introduce what he called his ‘big beautiful bill’, which was predicted to tip government debt over

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25:35

Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin...

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2025/12/23

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Well, the mushroom murders was the criminal case of the year and in this episode, we take you inside the court on the day Erin Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment. Patterson received a triple-murder conviction for the now infamous lunch of beef wellington that a jury trial found she laced with death cap mushrooms and served to her in-laws. Since we recorded this episode with court

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25:02

Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis...

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2025/12/22

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. Today, we return to an episode recorded in October with senior columnist Jacqueline Maley, when more torrid tales emerged of the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and his connection to sex offender and disgraced financier, Jeffrey Epstein. When this was recorded, the royal had just been stripped of his Duke of York and Prince title. British MPs have since announced a parliamentary

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