Each year, Australians put 125 billion dollars through the pokies - and over half of that is in NSW alone. The state has more poker machines than any jurisdiction in the world outside Nevada. 

This billion-dollar gambling industry will be in the spotlight when New South Wales goes to the polls this weekend.

So, how didNSW become the pokies capital of Australia? And will this election mark a turning point in the debate around poker machines?

Today, reporter Angus Thomson travels to the border of NSW and Victoria, where the legacy of decades of loose regulation of gambling machines is still being felt today.

Each year, Australians put 125 billion dollars through the pokies - and over half of that is in NSW alone. The state has more poker machines than any jurisdiction in the world outside Nevada. 
This billion-dollar gambling industry will be in the spotlight when New South Wales goes to the polls this weekend.
So, how did NSW become the pokies capital of Australia? And will this election mark a turning point in the debate around poker machines?
Today, reporter Angus Thomson travels to the border of NSW and Victoria, where the legacy of decades of loose regulation of gambling machines is still being felt today.

The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition (formerly Please Explain) brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

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The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

The Morning Edition brings you the story behind the story with the best journalists in Australia. Join host Samantha Selinger-Morris from the newsrooms of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, weekdays from 5am.

Two towns separated by a bridge, a border — and $28 million in gambling

When the news broke yesterday morning that Julian Assange had been set free from a London prison, the buzz spread immediately through parliament house in Canberra.

After spending more than a decade in prison or hiding, what exactly, had Assange agreed to plead guilty to? And will he finally come home to Australia?

Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent, Matthew Knott, on how the case that changed politics and journalism, forever, finally came to an end. And what the ripple effect might be, on both domestic and American politics.

When the news broke yesterday morning that Julian Assange had been set free from a London prison, the buzz spread immediately through parliament house in Canberra. After spending more than a decade in prison or hiding, what exactly, had Assange agreed to plead guilty to? And will he finally come home to Australia? Today, foreign affairs and national security correspondent, Matthew Knott, on how the case that changed politics and journalism, forever, finally came to an end. And what the ripple effect might be, on both domestic and American politics.

Julian Assange has suddenly walked free. What happens next?

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/88b564ea-a9a6-4751-910a-a5d800019396/clips/49d51618-7385-4253-b401-b19a0072d3b8/transcript

When Victorian education minister Ben Carroll announced, earlier this month, that his government had mandated a change in the way teachers instruct children to read, he admitted that he was potentially “stepping on a hand grenade”.

He was entering the long-running “reading wars”, which have pitted teachers, principals, and parents against each other.

Today, education editor Robyn Grace, on why one union has ordered its teachers to disobey the government’s mandate.

And whether the new method will help remedy the inadequate reading proficiency of too many Australian children.

When Victorian education minister Ben Carroll announced, earlier this month, that his government had mandated a change in the way teachers instruct children to read, he admitted that he was potentially “stepping on a hand grenade”.
He was entering the long-running “reading wars”, which have pitted teachers, principals, and parents against each other.
Today, education editor Robyn Grace, on why one union has ordered its teachers to disobey the government’s mandate.
And whether the new method will help remedy the inadequate reading proficiency of too many Australian children.

Reading wars: The way children are taught to read is about to change

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/88b564ea-a9a6-4751-910a-a5d800019396/clips/eeb2cde5-4855-4c19-8518-b1990072e7ee/transcript

There's no one quite like Donald Trump.

He has torn up long-standing treaties, threatened to abandon allies, indulged his rivals and shook America's stability as the centerpiece of Western democracy.

So what would another term of Donald Trump in the White House mean for Australia and the global world order?

In a special Monday series, our journalists examine his impact on trade, security, climate change and the economy, as well as who Australia's most influential lobbyists will be. 

Today, international editor Peter Hartcher and foreign affairs national security correspondent Matthew Knott on how the long standing relationship between the United States and Australia might be thrown off kilter by a Trump presidency, and how our power brokers should handle Trump's mercurial temperament. 

There's no one quite like Donald Trump.
He has torn up long-standing treaties, threatened to abandon allies, indulged his rivals and shook America's stability as the centerpiece of Western democracy.
So what would another term of Donald Trump in the White House mean for Australia and the global world order?
In a special Monday series, our journalists examine his impact on trade, security, climate change and the economy, as well as who Australia's most influential lobbyists will be. 
Today, international editor Peter Hartcher and foreign affairs national security correspondent Matthew Knott on how the long standing relationship between the United States and Australia might be thrown off kilter by a Trump presidency, and how our power brokers should handle Trump's mercurial temperament.

What another four years of Trump would mean for Australia

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/88b564ea-a9a6-4751-910a-a5d800019396/clips/bf6547fa-f1ae-49a2-a059-b19600827934/transcript

Two towns separated by a bridge, a border — and $28 million in gambling

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