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Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by science reporter Liam Mannix, who is concerned about growing noise around the Wuhan lab theory of COVID-19.

Today on Please Explain, The Age’s state political editor, Annika Smethurst, joins Tory Maguire to discuss the latest on Victoria’s snap seven-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown.

Today on Please Explain, federal politics bureau chief Angus Livingston joins Tory Maguire to look at some of the more interesting reveals from Senate estimates that haven’t make the mastheads.

Today on Please Explain, state political editor Alexandra Smith joins Tory Maguire to discuss the existential crisis the Australian Labor Party appears to be facing.

Advertisement Prince William has launched an unprecedented royal spray at the BBC over the way it procured and conducted an interview with his mother Princess Diana 25 years ago. An investigation ordered by the broadcaster’s new director-general found that not only did the Panorama program effectively trick Diana into the belief she was being followed and spied on in order to get her to agree to the bombshell interview, leadership at the BBC knew and covered it up. William and his brother ...

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire is joined by chief political correspondent David Crowe and Resolve Strategic director Jim Reed to unpack the latest results from the Resolve Political Monitor.

Advertisement The budget that federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down last week contained within it an assumption that has seriously thrown business leaders and state governments: that even with the vaccine rollout this year, Australia’s international borders would remain shut until well in to 2022. NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet is demanding some kind of certainty over borders reopening, linked to milestones in the vaccine rollout. Even former deputy chief medical officer Dr Nick C...

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Today on Please Explain, world editor Michelle Griffin joins Nathanael Cooper to discuss the growing tensions in the volatile region.

In a wide-ranging report released on Wednesday night titled Covid-19: Make it the Last Pandemic, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response made a number of recommendations to battle the current global health situation and ensure it doesn’t happen again. Among the recommendations is giving the World Health Organisation more power to announce disease outbreaks without first getting permission from the host country and that wealthy nations should donate vaccinations to poorer...