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Please Explain - from The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, a weekly podcast that cuts through the noise to give you insight into the stories that drive the nation. Subscribe to The Age: ht...

Inflation figures were out this week, and it wasn't good news. Next week's interest rates figures from the Reserve Bank aren't looking crash...

When the National Disability Insurance Scheme was created in 2013, it was proof that a rich society could find the money to help people livi...

Regular listeners will know Peter Hartcher – he's our international and political editor and a weekly voice on The Morning Edition , h...

It's shaping up to be a story of profound betrayal – if the allegations are proven in court. On the one hand is one of Australia's mos...

Within hours of the shooting, right outside where US President Donald Trump was dining at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, the American presi...

Prohibition-era gangs, mafia dons, the notorious Melbourne's gangland wars and the rise of flashy outlaw motorcycle gangs. Crime in Australi...

Today, we are talking about one of the federal budget's trickiest customers - the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Labor was once like...

Since the Cold War ended more than 35 years ago, many of us have likely not given much thought to Bloc warfare. Those nuclear threats that t...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is slated to make a big change to the tax system, with the centrepiece of the May budget a change to taxing capital g...

There's been something of a revolt in women's basketball in the United States, and two Australians – Alanna Smith and Ezi Magbegor &nd...

Just picture it: under the cover of night, police detectives raid a clandestine drug lab in Melbourne belonging to an organised crime gang....

A fire at a Geelong oil refinery - one of two refineries left in Australia - has heightened anxiety around fuel supply. Energy Minister Chri...

Seven weeks into the US-Israel war with Iran, the narrative that Donald Trump was pushed into the war by Benjamin Netanyahu, and that the US...

As our journalist James Massola put it, his niece Mattea is like most three-year-olds: boisterous and bursting with energy. Mattea is also n...

For years, Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, have been tanking in popularity polls. Meghan is now the second-most disliked roy...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been slammed – over the course of years – for failing to crack down on the more than 1 milli...

The new leader of the Nationals, Matt Canavan, is a former Marxist from the suburbs who was once a Productivity Commission economist and the...

US President Donald Trump has backed down, at the eleventh hour, from his horrifying threat to - as Trump put it himself - unleash destructi...

The Australian Federal Police today arrested war hero Ben Roberts-Smith over the war-crimes murders of five unarmed Afghan civilians and pri...

There was a significant judgment in a Victorian court last week, one that is causing a great deal of controversy in the medical community. T...

Many of us probably have a hunch that vaping is bad for our health. Questions about just how bad have been around for years. So why, then, h...

This week we debate the merits of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's national address before getting stuck into what's happening with the bud...

US President Donald Trump says he's nearly done with the war in Iran, declaring: "We will be leaving very soon." His secretary of state also...

Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie logged on to a Zoom call to meet the man who said he was Aaron Pierson. McKenzie was also hiding his re...

The government has finally announced its national fuel security plan to help us cope with one of the worst global oil crisis the world has s...

In a sudden conclusion to one of Australia's most intensive manhunts, self-described sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman was shot dead by police...

When the murky and fast-flowing water surged into their house in northern Victoria, Brian and Glenys Mulcahey were determined. They would sa...

This week , while we were all freaking out about the oil crisis – and rightly so – European Commission president Ursula von der...

How can we make heads or tails of where the Iran war is headed, and when it might end, when Donald Trump changes his strategy with whiplash...

As much as we love to hate Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O, who for so long ruled Australia's most expensive radio program, the implosion of th...

You've noticed the hike in prices at the petrol pump, but how high might prices go? And are we at risk of running out of petrol? Today, ener...

"Looksmaxxing" is a trend on social media where, as the name suggests, men aim to "maximise" their appearance in sometimes extreme ways. The...

This week we're talking about the enormous global volatility the government is dealing with, courtesy of the US-Israel war on Iran, and whet...

For someone who has said he's already won the war in Iran, US President Donald Trump sure is angry. On Tuesday night, he lashed out at allie...

Medicinal cannabis has been increasingly used, legally, to relieve symptoms and treat conditions such as anxiety or chronic pain. Today, hea...

Housing affordability in Australia is at an all-time low, and it's left young people rethinking the dream of homeownership – something...

By now, you've probably seen the Reddit threads blowing up over which movie should win the best picture Oscar today. How can Ryan Coogler's...

This week, we talk about the incredible story of the Iranian women's soccer team, some of whom defected and were given asylum in Australia....

It could be argued that no American president has been as enamoured with violence as Donald Trump. He appears to relish all of it: the spect...

Five female Iranian soccer players, in Australia competing for the Asian Cup, escaped in the night from their handlers to seek refuge from t...

Thousands of people in Lebanon have fled their homes due to Israeli airstrikes and forced evacuations as the conflict between Israel and Hez...

The lieutenant governor of Texas has called it "the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas". He was referring to the...

Micky Ahuja catapulted his company MA Services from nothing to the big time to become the security provider of choice to the federal governm...

Israel and the United States are at war with Iran in a rapidly escalating conflict that Australia seems to be trying to avoid as much as pos...

Only six days since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran, the destruction is mounting. More than 800 people have been killed, inc...

In this bonus episode of Inside Politics , we're joined by the Nationals leader David Littleproud. He's a man under pressure – comment...

If leading figures of the AI boom, like OpenAI chief Sam Altman, have their way, much of the world (or better yet, space) will be covered in...

Only days before US President Donald Trump declared war on Iran, another Epstein files bombshell dropped — this one, relating to alleg...

US President Donald Trump's act of war on Iran at the weekend seemed inevitable but nevertheless shocking. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and civili...

This week we had some not-so-great inflation figures and also reports that there'll be another interest rate rise right before the governmen...