The Morning Edition

A public execution and a Russian deal – will Trump’s midterm distractions work?

The Pentagon’s plans to livestream the execution of a former US army psychiatrist who murdered 13 soldiers at an army base has been met with disbelief in many quarters.

The ‘glass cliff’ and why the McKinsey saga shows it still exists

A senior Australian partner at global consultancy firm McKinsey made global headlines this week when he was stripped of a key leadership position after deriding the so-ca

Australia is incubating a dementia time bomb

Dementia is the No.1 cause of death here. And it’s a uniquely terrifying one, given it can often lead to an eroded sense of self, and lost memory of loved ones. The numb

How a remote Ecuadorian village took on Gina Rinehart

Lucia Chicaiza lives in northern Ecuador, in a sleepy farming town of just over 2000 people, at the foot of the Andes.She also happens to live near a lucrative gold and c

Coalition’s 'race to the bottom on migration' and former immigration official answers your questions

It’s been a year since Liberal MP Andrew Hastie quit Sussan Ley’s frontbench to speak his mind on migration. His decision fractured the Coalition and Ley’s ambition to

Godlike worship of AI is happening, and the Pope is its greatest opponent

While the rest of us have been dreaming of the promise of AI to cure diseases, and fretting about the threat of robots overtaking humanity, a growing number of people hav

Inside 'sandpapergate' – cricket's greatest scandal

Australians woke up on a Sunday morning in 2018 to extraordinary vision plastered across their television screens and mobile phones: Cameron Bancroft, the opening batsman

The royals have a rich history of lawsuits, but Andrew’s action is different

There’s been big news from the UK overnight, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, launching legal action against police over his arrest in re

I was a teenage boy online. It took 13 minutes for the manosphere to come

According to new analysis, screen time could damage children more than being born into poverty. The findings from the University of Calgary say higher doses of screen exp

Interest rates and Labor's spending, and the Greens look to Mamdani

Anthony Albanese is back from the United Nations in New York to a slump in his approval rating and more economic pain. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank raised interest rate

Did Trump offer arms to Xi Jinping? What happened on the White House tour

When the competing leaders of the world's two biggest economies gather for a summit, there's usually a lot to tussle over – military build-up, trade, critical minerals or

Bogong moths are swarming homes, and their story is miraculous

If you live in a certain part of Australia, you have probably noticed them – big moths flying around, clinging to glass doors and gathering around lights in massive numbe

Another interest rate hike? Experts say there are other ways to curb inflation

Interest rate hikes are stressing Australian mortgage holders across the country. But are higher rates the only way to get inflation down? Or are there alternatives to t

How real is Australia's immigration problem?

The past five decades have witnessed immigration on a scale the globe has never seen before, and countries around the world are convulsing with anti-immigration sentiment

Guardrails or ‘world leader’: How Anthony Albanese responds to OpenAI’s hack

Today we’re going international to talk about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trip to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s been

OpenAI's hack of an Australian government website

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a taskforce to investigate how AI apparently went rogue hacked into a portal belonging to one of Australia’s major healthcare

Inside the trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon

You might remember this case from Sydney in the summer of 2024 – the alleged double murder of TV presenter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies. Baird was a televisi

Trump and Zelensky meet again, and this time, Zelensky has the cards

The Republican Party is under enormous pressure, six weeks out from the midterm elections, with a new poll finding that most voters believe US President Donald Trump has

The surprising prediction for Australia in 40 years

What will our future look like 40 years from now? How, in a world growing in complexity, will we be faring economically and otherwise?Ahead of the release of the governme

The new terror stalking Ukraine

For many Ukrainians, daily life continues four years and six months since Russia’s full-scale invasion. But something has shifted in the war recently, as Europe correspon