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Please Explain

From the newsrooms of The Age and SMH, Please Explain gives you a daily insight into the stories that drive the nation.

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Ronald Reagan’s presidency of the 1980s is ...

: 20 minutes : 20-Jan-2026

Kazem Hamad rose rapidly to become one of the...

: 18 minutes : 19-Jan-2026

When Australian Open stars, such as Carlos Al...

: 15 minutes : 18-Jan-2026

Inside Politics is still on a break, but we�...

: 29 minutes : 15-Jan-2026

When Kevin Rudd announced on Monday that he w...

: 20 minutes : 14-Jan-2026

The protests that have been spreading across ...

: 26 minutes : 13-Jan-2026

While firefighters in Victoria battle devasta...

: 20 minutes : 12-Jan-2026

On the first day of the new year, Donald Trum...

: 16 minutes : 11-Jan-2026

We’re on a break over summer, our dear chie...

: 23 minutes : 08-Jan-2026

Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, and...

: 18 minutes : 07-Jan-2026