The Morning Edition

The 'helpers' of Singapore – raising expat children, while never seeing their own

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a Sunday at a park in Singapore, and, as journalist Zach Hope observed, it’s the servants day off. They lounge on picnic rugs, shakin...

The political 'killing season' has begun, so who are the new leaders?

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There can be no mistaking it – it is that time of year known as the killing season. Because, as of this morning, there are two state political l...

Trump and Epstein: How significant are the new emails?

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Trump has long sworn that his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was no big deal, that he didn’t know about his abuse of girls and women, ...

Wasting billions: The government system hurting your hip pocket

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Four years ago, when our senior economics correspondent, Shane Wright, pointed out the failings of our central bank, government leaders, including the...

Inside Politics: The Coalition’s net zero word salad, and Ley’s leadership ‘not safe’

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week in federal politics there was really only one show in town, and that was the compelling and 'can't look away' car crash that is the Liberal ...

The NYT asked if women ruined the workplace. Women had some thoughts

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

“Did women ruin the workplace?” This was the question that was put forward in a New York Times podcast that - no surprises here - quickly ...

Blood and honour: why couldn’t the NSW Government stop a neo-Nazi rally?

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How could dozens of white supremacists be allowed to rally outside of the NSW parliament building, on Saturday morning? And why didn’t the ...

John Laws: The power of one Sydney shockjock

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tributes have flown in – from the likes of actor Russell Crowe and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – for John Laws, the polarising broadca...

REDs is the hot topic among athletes and amateurs, but is it real?

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever taken on a 10km run, or a half marathon - maybe pushed yourself just a little too much, without properly researching what you should be ...

Jane Hume on rebranding net zero, and Hastie's abortion comments

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a rather torrid week for the Coalition, with yet more messy fighting over whether it will dump its commitment to Australia achieving n...

Our hospitals and GPs are struggling. Are Albanese’s fixes working?

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese swept back into power in part on the back of an $8.5 billion investment in Medicare, what he described as the “s...

A birthing trend is leading to deaths. Why is 'freebirthing' growing in popularity?

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A series of tragic deaths of Australian mothers and babies, as a result of so-called “freebirthing” has put this practice into the spotlig...

An impending 'Spermageddon': New study on the everyday chemicals lowering sperm count

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is "Spermagedon" coming? Well, the results of a new study on men's fertility and testosterone levels has left experts concerned as male sperm counts p...

'The most intense attack of my career': Alex Greenwich on what happened with Mark Latham

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

High-profile politician Alex Greenwich is used to the robust world of public office, but he says he had never experienced such an intense attack ...

Inflation figures were bad, so why focus on Albanese’s T-shirt?

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we're going to talk about the government's weaknesses, which might seem a little bit counter-intuitive, because Prime Minister Anthony Alban...

Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, King Charles was doing something the British royal family are accustomed to - shaking the hands of royal fans who had lined up for a chance...

The private powerbroker who has Lachlan Murdoch’s ear

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2005, Rupert Murdoch famously sided with his right-hand man, former Fox News chairman and now disgraced businessman, Roger Ailes, over his son, Lac...

2025 Good Food Guide Awards: The revealing trends and best restaurants

27 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You sure can tell a lot about a person by what they eat. Actor Marilyn Monroe once said that she was told her eating habits were “absolutely biz...

Fake pubic hair on a g-string for $70, a joke? Not if you're Kim Kardashian

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You couldn’t escape last week without hearing the ad for Kim Kardashian's latest rage-bait release: a so-called micro thong with faux pubic hair...

Bill Shorten on Albanese's Trump triumph, and the opposition's next move

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The week in federal politics could not have been more fun. We had Prime Minister Anthony Albanese travel to Washington, finally, for his meeting with ...

Have we just seen a tipping point in the US-China fight for supremacy?

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, analysts have been predicting the moment when China would inevitably overtake the United States as the world’s strongest power. Tha...

Inside the Trump and Albanese meeting: two deals and a humiliation

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was the meeting that has been hanging over our prime minister’s head for nine months. But Anthony Albanese’s face-to-face with Donald T...

They might rescue you from danger. But is Westpac Rescue safe?

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They are the heroes who might be called to winch you to safety, if you fall into a crevasse, get stuck in a bushfire, or find yourself circled by shar...

Victoria's treaty is an Australian first. What will this agreement mean?

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria is on the cusp of legislating a treaty with Indigenous people.When it's enacted, Victoria will become the first state in Australia with such ...

Albanese meets with Trump next week. Anything could happen

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

They said he couldn’t do it, but he’s doing it. In a few days, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, fresh from a week’s holiday, will be...

We have them. Trump wants them. Are rare earths Australia’s secret superpower?

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Remember when Donald Trump began a tariff war with ... the world? We thought that was old news. But over the weekend, the US president and Chinese Pre...

Will the treasurer’s “humiliating” tax backflip help, or hurt you?

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was the superannuation tax plan that helped Labor achieve a landslide victory in the last election. Though some of Australia’s wealthies...

Hostages free after 737 days, but is the war over?

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The 20 surviving Israeli hostages who had been held captive by Hamas in Gaza, have finally been released.The Israeli Defence Force has released the fi...

A Melbourne father accused of a crime. An American lawyer thinks he's innocent

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It is one of the most unspeakable crimes a parent can be accused of – shaking their vulnerable baby so badly, that they sustain brain damage, or...

Tim Wilson on Hastie's exit, and bringing back that 'big Liberal energy'

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The member for Goldstein, Tim Wilson, is a guest on the podcast this week during a very interesting time for the Liberal Party. Last week, home affair...

Japan poised to elect first female leader – 'Iron Lady' Sanae Takaichi

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Japan is preparing for its first ever female prime minister. Sanae Takaichi, the 64-year-old hardline right-wing conservative, likens herself to Marga...

Wi-Fi on the long-haul: Is the final frontier of silence over?

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re lucky enough to be on a plane these days, flying somewhere, it’s so easy to feel ungrateful. Does anyone need to watch the film ...

Free range? Or food fraud? The new tech exposing ‘bogus’ Australian food labels

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can we trust food labels? As in, is the chicken in the supermarket fridge really free-range like it says it is? Are the "local" prawns from a fis...

The deaths at Alva Beach. Was this a case of self-defence?

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Almost seven years ago to the day, on the NRL grand final weekend, a bizarre set of events unfolded.An injured woman knocked on the door of a stranger...

Introducing: Diagnosing Murder

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, families in Australia and overseas, have been accused of one of the worst crimes imaginable. Diagnosing Murder is an investigative podcas...

Can Albanese claim credit for Trump’s peace plan?

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The prime minister has just returned from 10 days of high-wire diplomacy, initially at the United Nations in New York before swinging through London a...

Why Western democracies are struggling against Russia's and China’s 'hybrid war'

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

On the weekend, Denmark reported unidentified drones had appeared above its major military bases. It was the country’s third drone alarm in a we...

Click to cancel: How hard should it be to end a subscription?

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know how annoying it can be to cancel a subscription, whether to a streaming service or gym membership, but when do ‘'subscription traps&...

The ‘remarkable breakthrough’ made for Huntington’s disease

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Researchers say they have, for the first time, dramatically slowed the progression of a cruel and devastating neuron condition called Huntington&rsquo...

Chemtrails to the elitist cabal: Why conspiracy theories are thriving in the White House

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There was a time when people who believed that the government can control the weather, or that Wi-Fi causes cancer might have been social pariahs.&nbs...

Albanese’s warning on tyranny, dictators, and his selfie with Trump

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are bringing you a special international episode of the pod. The prime minister has spent the week in New York addressing the United Nations,...

Trump just insulted almost all world leaders, to their faces, but what does it mean?

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to make sense of the last two weeks?Because it isn’t just that Russia has stepped up its global aggression by invading the airspace of vario...

Charlie Kirk memorial: love, hate and Trump’s vow for the future

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For many people who watched the coverage of Charlie Kirk’s memorial, it was the sounds that struck them the most.The triumphant 60,000 conservat...

Life, death and Optus: Should the telcos be trusted to run Triple Zero?

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Optus is in the firing line once again over an outage that left customers unable to call Triple Zero for 13 hours. In that time, four people died &nd...

No fry zone: Should councils be able to block fast food outlets?

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Once upon a time, the dangers of eating too much fast food were at the front of our minds thanks to documentaries like Super Size Me. But that was mor...

Coalition combust over net zero. Will the anti-climate action stance work?

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government announced its 2035 emissions reduction target this week, committing Australia to climate action despite a retreat from the United State...

A primer on Australia’s climate target

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A flurry of numbers relating to climate change have been tossed around all week. But what do they mean? Today, environment and climate reporter Bianca...

Why Gen-Z fury led to destruction in Nepal

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Three years ago, mainstream newspapers in the West had a bit of fun ridiculing so-called nepo-babies, and the unfair advantage enjoyed by the children...

From children’s entertainer to political celebrity. The rise of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s charisma has led to her meteoric rise, and also, to her recent relegation to the back bench.Lambasted for her positio...

‘The cult of the leader’: The professor who left America says fascism is flourishing

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

US President Donald Trump is a fascist, running an authoritarian regime. We hear this allegation a lot, now. But is he? Really? Fascism expert Jason S...

Why the sacking of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price could turn the senator ‘into a martyr’

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Controversial Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was sacked from the Coalition frontbench this week. Price left Opposition Leader Sussan Ley wit...

Why Australia is trying to out-woo China for influence in the Pacific

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When we think of countries trying to show the world their power and influence, we might think of muscular shows of force, like China’s army para...

'Like an episode of the Sopranos': Life inside the clean-up of the CFMEU

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More than a year ago, the CFMEU – one of Australia’s most powerful unions – was placed into administration, after an investigation b...

'No remorse, no pity': The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

So now we know: Erin Patterson will be 82 before she gets the chance to get out of jail; if she gets out at all.This will make her one of Victoria&rsq...

The ‘tradwife’ movement: All flax and linen, or a pipeline to fascism?

07 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Year 9 debaters in South Australia were given a topic for the third round of their debating competition a few months ago. The topic was whether the ''...

The rallies, the neo-Nazis, the flag-draping: How politics on immigration have led to this point

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Political debate was dominated this week by the topic of immigration after anti-immigration rallies in major cities last weekend.Politicians from both...

Yulia Navalnaya’s blunt message about Putin, the president who murdered her husband

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Almost immediately after Russian opposition leader Alexi Navalny was murdered by the Kremlin last year, in an arctic penal colony, Russian president V...

Is Dezi Freeman being glorified like the other 'daring, desperate or deranged' fugitives who came before him?

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The whispering forests and deep valleys of Victoria’s high country have long provided refuge for those on the run.  Think of Ned Kelly and ...

March for Australia: Why weren’t neo-Nazis stopped?

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Violent clashes, police with pepper spray and chants of “Heil Australia”. These were the scenes we saw over the weekend, as thousands of A...

When is it genocide? And is it happening in Gaza?

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Venture to a pro-Palestinian rally at one of Australia’s capital cities, and you’ll invariably hear calls to “end the genocide&rdquo...

Like a spy novel: How Iran orchestrated attacks on Australian shores

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week Canberra turned into a John le Carre novel, with the stunning revelation from the head of ASIO Mike Burgess, that the state of Iran directed...

Porepunkah police shooting: What is the sovereign citizen movement?

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we record this episode, the Victorian High Country is the scene of an intense hunt for a man accused of shooting and killing two police officers, a...

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

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many will remember a spate of frightening attacks against Jewish communities in both Sydney and Melbourne last year, including firebombings, vandalism...

First home buyers can afford a mortgage, but not a deposit. So will the new 5% scheme make a difference?

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you’re in your 20s or 30s, or have someone in your life who’s in that age bracket, you know that the struggle to buy a home is real.&nb...

More Australians are using AI now, but is it lying to us?

24 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI chat bots are fast becoming a part of everyday life with more than half of all Australians using them regularly, although just over a third of thos...

‘Intergenerational bastardry’ in our tax system: Do older Australians have it too good?

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week was an exciting one in Canberra, especially if you’re the kind of person who digs the philosophy of tax and transfer. We are talking, ...

Russia-Ukraine: Whose side is Trump on now?

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Since Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine three and a half years ago, both sides have suffered catastrophic losses. More than one milli...

The country writers festival that descended into chaos

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was billed as a “vibrant gathering of readers, writers, and creative thinkers” who would spark “ideas, conversation, and inspirat...

A $90 million fine and a scathing court judgment. Is Qantas damaged beyond repair?

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It may have once boasted one of the most heartwarming advertisement ever to grace our TV screens reminding us that Qantas meant coming home, but ...

The unravelling of a star surgeon, and the journalist who took on the fight

17 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For more than a decade of dazzling media coverage, Dr Munjed Al Muderis was lauded as a miracle worker to some of the most vulnerable people in our co...

Is there beef between Chalmers and Albanese? And, we talk Palestine, and productivity mixed-messages

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the Albanese government announced it would recognise Palestine as a state, a huge foreign policy shift that was greeted with approval by man...

A 'war of deception': Why Netanyahu insists on a Gaza takeover

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two former Israeli prime ministers and now, the chief of staff of the Israeli defence force, have objected to Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial...

Why has Trump sent the military into Washington DC?

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It was a scene straight out of the Donald Trump playbook: a rambling press conference where he spoke about oceanfront property in Ukraine, his upcomin...

Australia will recognise Palestine. What does it mean?

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has announced that Australia will recognise Palestinian statehood at the United Nations, next month.  ...

'You're not imagining it': Inside our 18-month investigation into 'misleading' property price guides

10 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you've bought a house lately - or tried to - then you'd know the price advertised for properties in the big cities are, more often than not, way be...

The ‘Coachella of Canberra’, A.I is coming for us, and is the government serious about tax reform?

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the pod we are going to delve into what we are calling Canberra’s Coachella - AKA the Productivity Summit, which is happening the w...

How Trump’s sacking of stats chief is another 'slide into autocracy'

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you heard the news that Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday and responded with a shrug, you probably weren&rsqu...

Crypto, frequent flyer points and pets: The new financial battleground for divorce

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We all know that divorce settlements often get ugly.  We hear stories about the couples who chainsaw couches in half, such is their disagreement ...

Why an MP, a convicted rapist, is keeping his taxpayer funded salary

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Picture this. A man has been convicted of rape. And as he sits in his prison cell, awaiting a sentence, he continues to be paid his taxpayer funded sa...

Australians are working longer hours, so is it finally time for a four-day work week?

03 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If you feel like you’re working like crazy, but getting nowhere fast, you’re far from alone. It turns out that Australians work many more ...

Palestinian statehood: The UK has moved, so has Canada. What’s Albanese waiting for?

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

French President Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian and UK prime ministers Mark Carney and Keir Starmer have all called for Palestine to be recognised, one...

Problems, the world has a few...and are journalists one of them?

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For the last 54 years, countless writers have lived by the words of the late author Graham Greene who wrote that writers should have a “splinter...

Israel says there is no starvation in Gaza. Trump disagrees

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The release of images of starving children lying listlessly in their mothers’ arms, in the Gaza strip, has pushed a growing number of global lea...

The cancer drug, the faked data and the superstar scientist

28 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Smyth was one of Australia’s very top cancer scientists. Or, as one former colleague puts it, “the god of immunology." But Smyth was ...

Ozempic: What the evidence says about side-effects

27 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Obesity affects about a third of Australian adults, while another third are classified as overweight. But the weight loss drug Ozempic has proven to b...

A case of 'burger diplomacy' for Trump, and Barnaby Joyce puts his beef aside to oppose net zero

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faces tricky terrain with the government lifting a ban on US beef imports to Australia this week, leaving him open to ...

Trump sues Murdoch over Epstein files, and the ‘surreal turn’ MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon took

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A showdown looms between two of the world's most powerful men, Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch, with the American president suing the media mogul for ...

The Australians poisoned by over-the-counter vitamins

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

You may be like half of all Australians who now take a multivitamin, to improve their health. But are they safe?  Melbourne dad Dominic Noonan-O&...

The sperm donor loophole that led to 27 half-siblings

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

More Australians are turning towards using in-vitro fertilisations to have babies, every year. Often it's done through regulated IVF clinic, but somet...

Evictions rising in East Jerusalem and a Melbourne man’s part in it all

20 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

East Jerusalem is one of the most contested pieces of land in the Middle East. International law says it is an occupied Palestinian Territory. Israel ...

Inside Politics: ‘Killing season’ is over, so what will Anthony Albanese do with this moment?

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Well, here we are, a new term of parliament begins next week. There’ll be fresh faces and, hopefully, fresh ideas.So will the government use its...

Why the China trip is a big deal for Albanese - and Xi Jinping

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been in China this week, a picture of warmth as he shook hands with Chinese president Xi Jinping. ...

The fallout when two disgraced men go on rehabilitation tours

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One time high court justice Dyson Heydon and famed neurosurgeon Charlie Teo once held the futures of countless people in their hands.But then came the...

The antisemitism report that’s getting a lot of headlines

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Some have hailed it as a dangerous document that could restrict our freedom of speech. Others have celebrated it, saying it will lead to protections t...

Why commercial airline GPS is becoming less reliable

13 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We know that air flight is - for the most part - extraordinarily safe. On any given day, about 100,000 flights take off and land, safely, across the g...

Inside Politics: Did Anthony Albanese just give his most important speech?

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What do the great war time Prime Minister John Curtin, and current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have in common?  Well, a little bit, according...

The gunfight and leaked phone call that could topple Thailand’s PM

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For many of us, Cambodia has long been synonymous with tragedy, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, which killed between 1.5 and 3 million Cambodian...

Enemies within: shocking allegations of rape in the defence force

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many will remember a powerful 2013 video of the then Australian army chief David Morrison ripping into soldiers who denigrated women, saying there was...