Hi there, I’m Jacqueline Maley, the host of Inside Politics, The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly politics podcast.

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before we return in early February for the election year.

One of the big issues of the federal election will be energy policy, with the opposition backing nuclear power over wind and solar as its path to a greener, cleaner world.

This episode aired just after Coalition leader Peter Dutton first unveiled his nuclear plans, all dissected by chief political correspondent David Crowe and national climate and environment editor Nick O’Malley.

National affairs correspondent Matthew Knot also makes an appearance to talk about a visit from Chinese premier Li Qiang.

Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter.

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Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Today we’re taking you to the start of such a big story that the fall-out from it is still reverberating - the CFMEU scandal.

Investigative reporter Nick McKenzie, who broke the story, explains how the powerful construction union was infiltrated by criminals.

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Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Donald J Trump was probably the story of 2024. The assassination attempts, and then, his election as the next president of the United States.

Today, we go back to the first attempt on Trump’s life, at a rally in Pennsylvania, in the hours after it happened in this episode with North American Correspondent Farrah Tomazin.

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Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Today we’re revisiting one of the biggest stories of the year, the defamation trial brought by a former Liberal staffer by the name of Bruce Lehrmann.

In the episode, which aired in April, Legal affairs reporter Michaela Whitebourn details Justice Michael Lee’s momentous ruling that Lehrmann raped his colleague Brittany Higgins in a minister’s office in parliament house.

Lehrmann, who denies the allegation, has since appealed the court’s decision.

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Hi there, I’m Samantha Selinger-Morris the host of The Morning Edition, the daily news podcast from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald.

We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2024, before your Morning Edition team returns in early January.

Today, we’re bringing you an episode that was a deep-dive into the oldest fraternal organisation in the world, the Freemasons.

Investigative journalist Charlotte Grieve entered the secret world of the Freemasons, in which it’s against the rules to speak publicly about what happens in this order.

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If things are supposed to be slowing down for Christmas, well, nobody told our federal politicians. This week we had a mid-year economic update and a contentious debate about the Coalition’s nuclear energy plans.

Today, chief political correspondent David Crowe joins Jacqueline Maley to look back at the political year and explore some of its themes.

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We found out, earlier this week, that Buruli ulcer, caused by a flesh-eating bacteria has settled into a coastal town in NSW. Experts say there’s a significant risk that the bacteria could spread to Sydney, and beyond.

Today, health editor Kate Aubusson on how we can stay safe from this disease, which has already gained a foothold in Victoria.

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