
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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Previous Episodes
- From children’s entertainer to political celebrity. The rise of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price 15.09.2025
- ‘The cult of the leader’: The professor who left America says fascism is flourishing 14.09.2025
- Why the sacking of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could turn the senator ‘into a martyr’ 11.09.2025
- Why Australia is trying to out-woo China for influence in the Pacific 10.09.2025
- 'Like an episode of the Sopranos': Life inside the clean-up of the CFMEU 09.09.2025
- 'No remorse, no pity': The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson 08.09.2025
- The ‘tradwife’ movement: All flax and linen, or a pipeline to fascism? 07.09.2025
- The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point 04.09.2025
- Yulia Navalnaya’s blunt message about Putin, the president who murdered her husband 03.09.2025
- Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him? 02.09.2025
- March for Australia: Why weren’t neo-Nazis stopped? 01.09.2025
- When is it genocide? And is it happening in Gaza? 31.08.2025
- Like a spy novel: How Iran orchestrated attacks on Australian shores 28.08.2025
- Porepunkah police shooting: What is the sovereign citizen movement? 27.08.2025
- ‘Aimed at breaking social cohesion’: Iran blamed for antisemitic attacks on Australian soil 26.08.2025
- First home buyers can afford a mortgage, but not a deposit. So will the new 5% scheme make a difference? 25.08.2025
- More Australians are using AI now, but is it lying to us? 24.08.2025
- ‘Intergenerational bastardry’ in our tax system: Do older Australians have it too good? 22.08.2025
- Russia-Ukraine: Whose side is Trump on now? 20.08.2025
- The country writers festival that descended into chaos 19.08.2025