The Morning Edition

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.

Latest Episode

‘Aimed at breaking social cohesion’: Iran blamed for antisemitic attacks on Australian soil (26.08.2025)

Previous Episodes

  • 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
  • A $90 million fine and a scathing court judgment. Is Qantas damaged beyond repair? 18.08.2025
  • The unravelling of a star surgeon, and the journalist who took on the fight 17.08.2025
  • Is there beef between Chalmers and Albanese? And, we talk Palestine, and productivity mixed-messages 14.08.2025
  • A 'war of deception': Why Netanyahu insists on a Gaza takeover 13.08.2025
  • Why has Trump sent the military into Washington DC? 12.08.2025
  • Australia will recognise Palestine. What does it mean? 11.08.2025
  • 'You're not imagining it': Inside our 18-month investigation into 'misleading' property price guides 10.08.2025
  • The ‘Coachella of Canberra’, A.I is coming for us, and is the government serious about tax reform? 07.08.2025
  • How Trump’s sacking of stats chief is another 'slide into autocracy' 06.08.2025
  • Crypto, frequent flyer points and pets: The new financial battleground for divorce 05.08.2025
  • Why an MP, a convicted rapist, is keeping his taxpayer funded salary 04.08.2025
  • Australians are working longer hours, so is it finally time for a four-day work week? 03.08.2025
  • Palestinian statehood: The UK has moved, so has Canada. What’s Albanese waiting for? 31.07.2025
  • Problems, the world has a few...and are journalists one of them? 30.07.2025
  • Israel says there is no starvation in Gaza. Trump disagrees 29.07.2025

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