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Samantha Selinger-Morris

Samantha Selinger-Morris

Samantha Selinger-Morris is the host of The Morning Edition for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Apple announced its Health app will soon be able to tell users if they’re in perimenopause.

Apple, get the hell out of my uterus

Please, we don’t need the tech bros’ surveillance of our most intimate bodily functions.

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Graeme Simpfendorfer.

This cop had no memory of his alleged abuse, until he was trained to spot it

An experienced police officer was learning about the grooming tactics of child sexual predators. When they mentioned tickling, he froze.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Kylie Moore-Gilbert in Iran before her arrest.

A toxic deal or pragmatic exchange? Protection for foreign nationals who help free an Australian hostage

Kylie Moore-Gilbert was a hostage in an Iranian prison for 804 days. She says it’s time to question Australia’s “quiet diplomacy” and discuss controversial ways to free wrongfully jailed Australians.

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The Epstein files are challenging a foundational American myth

‘Why couldn’t I see it?’ Painful and profound reality of the Epstein elites exposed

Americans believed they lived in a land of opportunity for all, but a new class consciousness is emerging.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Ben Roberts-Smith is Australia’s most-decorated living soldier. He was awarded the Victoria Cross in 2011.

Tapped phones, listening devices, secret raids: Nick McKenzie on the arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith

What is expected to follow the arrest of Australia’s most-decorated living soldier will be the most significant war crimes prosecution in the nation’s history. Here’s how we got here.

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Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, is the face of ‘looksmaxxing’, a movement promising young men ‘ascension’ to greater attractiveness that is also considered a pipeline to toxic incel ideology.

Who are ‘looksmaxxers’? And why are they calling other men ‘sub-human’?

Meet the men, and boys, who are smoking crystal meth and risking their fertility in a bid to become their most beautiful selves.

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‘Climate whiplash’: From fires to floods and back again

Fires, floods, swimsuits and jumpers in one day: ‘Climate whiplash’ is our new normal

Experts say our weather is “a different beastie”, no longer playing by the old rules. So how can we handle a “diabolical and escalating threat” that’s also unpredictable?

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Mourners embrace at the Bondi memorial.

My son had planned to be at Bondi. Will hate follow him wherever he goes?

My son had planned to be there. He was getting ready to leave for Bondi with friends when he heard the news.

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Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth at the White House on December 2.

Could Trump’s Caribbean boat strikes be what finally splinters the MAGA movement?

The captain’s pick for the role of defence secretary is facing allegations he’s presided over a military mission that may have been marked by war crimes. That’s a step too far for some of the president’s fans.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Smoke is seen in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 22, 2023.

It’s not just Sudan. The same destructive forces are coming for other countries too

The death toll in Sudan is now more than Gaza and Ukraine combined. With the new world order, civilisation is a lot more fragile than we like to think.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris