Shane Wright analyses the 2025 federal budget on The Morning Edition.

Listen:Modest budget full of sweeteners,no ‘grand message’

It wasn’t a bold budget,but then again,pre-election budgets never are,senior economics correspondent Shane Wright tells The Morning Edition podcast.

  • Shane Wright andSamantha Selinger-Morris

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Canadians are not happy about being residents of “the 51st state”.

Thanks to Trump,Canadians like me have become flag-waving patriots

Canadians are rallying behind the battle cry “elbows up!” They’re ready to fight.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Sir Simon Schama having lunch at the MCA’s Canvas restaurant.

Sir Simon Schama on becoming ‘weirdly fearless’ as America pivots

Having just turned 80,the historian and tv presenter feels obliged to speak up about the ‘monstrosity’ of Donald Trump’s actions.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Forensic police examine damage to a property in Maroubra.

I’ve paid a hefty personal price for being tough in the face of antisemitism

Waking up this morning to a late-in-life realisation about how antisemitism has affected my life made my cheeks sink.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Smoke from nearby bushfires billows across Moruya in January 2019.

Amid bushfire’s smoke,there was kindness everywhere you looked

As the fires raged,we huddled in an evacuation centre with 100 other people:it was Armageddon-like.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Kate McClymont on the arrest of Alan Jones.

‘A stunning development’:Kate McClymont on Alan Jones’ arrest,and what’s next

Kate McClymont,whose reporting sparked an investigation into Alan Jones,brings us the latest on his arrest and what the next steps will be.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris andKate McClymont
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Donald Trump.

Can Donald Trump turn the US into an autocracy?

Samantha Selinger-Morris,the host of The Morning Edition,sits down with David E Sanger,the National Security Correspondent for The New York Times,to discuss what it takes for a democracy to morph into an autocracy.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris

‘The consequences are much greater’:John Silvester on the Easey Street secret he kept

The Age crime columnist unpacks the major breakthrough in the notorious Easey Street cold case – and takes us behind the scenes of the long police operation that led to it.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris

How the Trump shooting will ‘change the contours’ of the White House race

US correspondent Farrah Tomazin unpacks the chaos,fear and likely political impact of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

  • Farrah Tomazin andSamantha Selinger-Morris
Barnaby Joyce.

Listen:How do you solve a problem like Barnaby?

When images of Barnaby Joyce lying on a footpath late at night,seemingly incapacitated,went viral,it triggered a series of political explosions.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris