From dance floor to ‘orgy room’: What happens on a typical swingers’ night?

In this episode we talk to Jess Cattelly, the co-founder of Sydney swingers club Our Secret Spot. The 32-year-old got into swinging – also known as The Lifestyle - when she was just 20, and her Parramatta Road venue has since become an example of the way in which the swinging community is changing.…

Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton

Hi and Merry Christmas! Your Inside Politics team is on a little hiatus over summer before we return at the end of January. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy some of our favourite episodes of the year, starting with a trip down memory lane to election night with our former chief political corres…

Best of 2025: A Labor 'landslide' and disaster for Dutton

Hi and Merry Christmas! Your Inside Politics team is on a little hiatus over summer before we return at the end of January. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy some of our favourite episodes of the year, starting with a trip down memory lane to election night with our former chief political corres…

Best of 2025: Is this the beginning of the end of the American empire?

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January. It was another big year for the human headline that was U.S President Donald Trump, and political and international editor Peter Hartcher was an essential listen each week on our podcast as we tried …

Best of 2025: The sentencing of mushroom cook Erin Patterson

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.  Well, the mushroom murders was the criminal case of the year and in this episode, we take you inside the court on the day Erin Patterson was sentenced to life imprisonment.  Patterson received a tr…

Best of 2025: Is Prince Andrew an existential crisis for the monarchy?

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.  Today, we return to an episode recorded in October with senior columnist Jacqueline Maley, when more torrid tales emerged of the former prince, Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, and his connection to sex …

Best of 2025: Belle Gibson's cancer con

Hi, it’s Samantha Selinger-Morris here, the host of The Morning Edition. We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns mid-January.  This one is about Belle Gibson.  One of the original wellness influencers, Gibson claimed to have healed herself from termin…

Tony Abbott on running for Senate, AUKUS and cultural ‘self-loathing’

In this bonus episode of Inside Politics, former primer minister Tony Abbott joins host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal. Abbott has penned a new book, Australia: A History, describing a more positive view of our past. He also discusses the current political and cultu…

Sleep expert Matthew Walker on snoring, napping, nightmares and the power of slumber

In this episode, we speak with Matthew Walker. The British neuroscience professor is the author of “Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams”, and he’s coming to Australia shortly to speak at Vivid Sydney in conjunction with the Sydney Writers' Festival. Walker has lately become the sl…

Anger in the aftermath: Albanese and the Bondi attack

This week it feels wrong to talk about politics in the wake of the horrific antisemitic massacre at Bondi Beach on Sunday. Australians and Sydneysiders in particular are still trying to make sense of the senseless.  But the fact is that the response to the massacre has been deeply political, and t…