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
Best of 2025: The tobacco tax causing carnage in our streets (28.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton
- Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?
- Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
- Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
- Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con
- Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’
- Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack
- Courage and kindness in the face of the Bondi attack
- Holocaust survivors chose Sydney after the war. Then came the Bondi attack
- A voice note from our reporter who was caught up in the Bondi shooting
- Bondi terror attack: On the ground after mass shooting
- How horror Bondi Beach terror attack unfolded
- Inside Politics: The ‘dirty business’ of MP expenses
- Trump and the Caribbean boat strikes: Did a war crime occur?
- The sex offenders being protected under secretive orders
- What happens when social media goes ‘dark’ for Australian teens
- Blood on the ground: What’s happening in Sudan
- $100k flights, uncomfortable truth about PM's wedding, and the fight over social media
- Kate McClymont on the fake accountant, the solicitor, and the stolen millions
- Will ‘gentle density’ help fix our housing stupidity?
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