The Morning Edition
By The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
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Episodes: 100
James
Feb 26, 2022
Love the brief, concise direct slice of Australian life which still informs like a deep dive. Highly recommended
Milana
Apr 21, 2020
Really good insight on the current state of Australian politics and culture. I am particularly enjoying the switch to short form and hope the 10-15 minute segments continue, even if they are not daily.
Peter
May 9, 2019
Love the focused presentation- clear and concise.
Description
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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The Sketch: Tony Wright on 'Nation's worst government? Jane Hume's hyperbolic historical claim'
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Trump won’t shelter us. But does Australia really need nuclear weapons?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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A Sydney mother, the big bank and the court stoush over $44.11
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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How far will Angus Taylor go to crack down on immigration?
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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The CFMEU ‘crime gang’: A honeypot of money, and a government that looked the other way
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Anthony Albanese interview: Police prayer disruption at Herzog protest needs ‘full explanation’
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Feb 13, 2026 |
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Is government spending really driving inflation?
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Japan’s new PM is the 'Trump whisperer'. Will she compel Albanese to follow suit?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Who is Isaac Herzog and why there are protests everywhere he goes
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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The politics of Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl’s half-time show
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Gina Rinehart, the disability pensioner and a fight over 12km of fencing
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Bill Shorten on his random, oblique reference in the Epstein files
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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The Epstein files troubling Trump and who he’ll threaten next
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Why our obsession with interest rates and cost of living is a problem
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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'A crazy week' ahead: Leadership spills and more Liberal defections
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Forged via Facebook. The anti-vax parents faking child health records
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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A funeral, secret plots, and 'wayward children' — another messy week for the Coalition
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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‘Numbers, numbers everywhere’: Interest rate rise likely, but what does it all mean?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Beyond the Alex Pretti video: On the ground in Minneapolis
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ken Dyers' Kenja: The cult still operating in Australia
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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The remarkable story of how Timor-Leste is tackling cervical cancer
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The Sketch: Tony Wright on the Coalition’s 'ship of fools'
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Barnaby Joyce opens up on his defection to Pauline Hanson's One Nation
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Littleproud fired the gun, but Ley set up the circumstances: The spectacular Coalition break-up
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Coalition splits – again – over hate speech laws
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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'So much change, so much chaos': One year of Trump 2.0
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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The rise and fall of one of Australia’s most powerful criminals
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Aus Open prize money is at an all-time high. But are players being paid enough?
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Why Kevin Rudd resigned, and what it means for our relationship with Trump
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Is the Iranian regime about to collapse?
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Floods at one end, bushfires at the other. What's behind Australia's climate 'whiplash'
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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First Trump invaded Venezuela. But it may not be Greenland that's next
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Women were once ‘essential’ to the Liberal Party. What happened?
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: What is freebirthing?
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Why gangland figure Tony Mokbel could walk free
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Best of 2025: Chifley, Hawke, Rudd. Albanese beat them all. But what’s next?
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: How a dancing Robert Irwin became America’s antidote
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: The lawyer (and author) who represented Palestine in international court
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Dec 29, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: The tobacco tax causing carnage in our streets
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
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Dec 22, 2025 |
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Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Courage and kindness in the face of the Bondi attack
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Holocaust survivors chose Sydney after the war. Then came the Bondi attack
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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A voice note from our reporter who was caught up in the Bondi shooting
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Bondi terror attack: On the ground after mass shooting
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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How horror Bondi Beach terror attack unfolded
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Inside Politics: The ‘dirty business’ of MP expenses
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Trump and the Caribbean boat strikes: Did a war crime occur?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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The sex offenders being protected under secretive orders
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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What happens when social media goes ‘dark’ for Australian teens
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Blood on the ground: What’s happening in Sudan
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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$100k flights, uncomfortable truth about PM's wedding, and the fight over social media
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Kate McClymont on the fake accountant, the solicitor, and the stolen millions
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Will ‘gentle density’ help fix our housing stupidity?
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Why shark attacks in Australia are increasing
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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How real is the rise of One Nation?
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Barnaby defects, Hanson offends and Sussan Ley comes on the podcast
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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'Nice is nice': How a dancing Robert Irwin became America's antidote
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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‘They view it as a contagion’: Why Trump wants our migrant data
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Why the BOM spent $96 million on its website
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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'Blood oil': How Australia is funding Russia's war
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Albanese wants to protect Australia ‘as it is’. But is it good enough?
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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The political 'killing season' has begun, so who are the new leaders?
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Trump and Epstein: How significant are the new emails?
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Wasting billions: The government system hurting your hip pocket
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Inside Politics: The Coalition’s net zero word salad, and Ley’s leadership ‘not safe’
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The NYT asked if women ruined the workplace. Women had some thoughts
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Blood and honour: why couldn’t the NSW Government stop a neo-Nazi rally?
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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John Laws: The power of one Sydney shockjock
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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REDs is the hot topic among athletes and amateurs, but is it real?
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Jane Hume on rebranding net zero, and Hastie's abortion comments
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Our hospitals and GPs are struggling. Are Albanese’s fixes working?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A birthing trend is leading to deaths. Why is 'freebirthing' growing in popularity?
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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An impending 'Spermageddon': New study on the everyday chemicals lowering sperm count
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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'The most intense attack of my career': Alex Greenwich on what happened with Mark Latham
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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Inflation figures were bad, so why focus on Albanese’s T-shirt?
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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The private powerbroker who has Lachlan Murdoch’s ear
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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2025 Good Food Guide Awards: The revealing trends and best restaurants
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Fake pubic hair on a g-string for $70, a joke? Not if you're Kim Kardashian
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Have we just seen a tipping point in the US-China fight for supremacy?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Inside the Trump and Albanese meeting: two deals and a humiliation
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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They might rescue you from danger. But is Westpac Rescue safe?
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Victoria's treaty is an Australian first. What will this agreement mean?
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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We have them. Trump wants them. Are rare earths Australia’s secret superpower?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Will the treasurer’s “humiliating” tax backflip help, or hurt you?
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Hostages free after 737 days, but is the war over?
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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A Melbourne father accused of a crime. An American lawyer thinks he's innocent
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Oct 12, 2025 |