More than 2400 WorkCover claims have been made in the last year by teachers and principals who were bitten, kicked, punched, spat on, headbutted and scratched by students at Queensland schools. Queensland Association of State School Principals President Pat Murphy told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I find it's the front office staff who cop at the worst.' 'Yes, you're talking principals and our teachers and everyone in our school body's entitled to respect, particularly those front office staff who aren't earning a huge amount of money,' he said. 'Let's make sure that when you're walking in, yes, you can have an issue with school, but let's treat our staff, our teachers and our principals with respect.'

Pressure is mounting on Anthony Albanese to label the arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue that happened in Melbourne last week a terrorist attack. The Prime Minister has personally called the attack an act of terrorism, but has stopped short of officially declaring it as a National act of terrorism. Josh Frydenberg told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it's just another example of a pattern of behaviour that has actually seen the extremists in our mix be emboldened.' 'Those who hate, those who harm have felt that they have license to carry out their violent and un-Australian activities and that's why I wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister to say enough is enough,' Frydenberg said. 'Anti-Semitism is out of control and the responsibility rests at his door.'

Between July 1, 2023, and July 15, 2024, more than $18.7m in claims were lodged by the Department of Education and Training staff.  The top 10 claims alone were worth more than $1.26m, with seven related to psychological trauma, anxiety or stress and four from principals. Peter Fegan labelled this rise in violence in Queensland schools as 'outrageous', saying you can’t blame teachers for walking away from their jobs.

The Australian Federal Police counter-terrorism units will join the Victoria Police to discuss the arson attack on the Adass Israel synagogue that occurred in Melbourne last week. Jillian Segal AO, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'the more important issue we should focus on as a nation is what the government and the community is going to do about this rising anti-Semitism or this anti-Semitism that's effectively been normalised.' 'It's no longer just rising, it's with us. We need to think of it almost like COVID. We need to fight it as a country,' she said. 'Everyone must stand up against anti-Semitism. Don't be a bystander, be an upstander and call it out,' Segal continued.

Adrian Richardson has saved your Christmas on 4BC Breakfast with a crackling Christmas pork recipe and all the tips and tricks to ensure you nail the dish on the big day.

Australian singer-songwriter Josh Pyke has released his latest children's book titled 'A Silver Thread on Christmas Day' along with a song of the same name. Josh Pyke is in town to perform at The Lord Mayor's Christmas Carols this Saturday, 7 December 2024 The multiple ARIA Award winning artist told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I've read interviews and I know that the songs aren't about what I think they're about. And that's great, actually.'

The Olympic stadium debate has resurfaced in Queensland this week. The editor of The Courier Mail and the Towards The Games Podcast host, Chris Jones, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "Victoria Park, it's nice and open, it's a big greenfield site, you can do all sorts of stuff with different entryways, it's easier to build and then into the future it's easier to work."

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Gender-based violence continues to rise. Statistics show that a woman is intentionally killed by a partner or a family member every ten minutes. QPS Assistant Commissioner Katherine Innes, head of the QPS Domestic Violence and Vulnerable Person Command, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "taking over this role only in the last three weeks and digging into our calls for service and the reality of what this is, is really quite confronting." "It's interesting because my background is in crime and I think sometimes people think domestic violence is something different to crime, but it's homicide, assault, rape, kidnapping, abduction, life-endangering acts, stalking, strangulation, it's really serious behaviour," she said.

The second teenager who was present at the North Lakes home of Emma and Lee Lovell when Emma was killed on Boxing Day 2022 has walked free. Justice Michael Copley found him guilty of burglary and assault in company and sentenced the teen to 18 months in jail, but due to time already served, the 19-year-old is out in the community ahead of the second anniversary of Emma Lovell’s death. The Attorney-General, Deb Frecklington told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, “The Emma Lovell case, and what Lee Lovell and his beautiful daughters and family have had to go through, quite frankly… has been shocking.’ “If we ever needed a greater example for tougher laws, tougher sentencing guidelines, it is this case.”

As of January 2025, Commonwealth Bank will be closing certain accounts and moving customers to its ‘Smart Access’ accounts. This change means some CBA customers will face a $3 fee for assisted withdrawals at branches or via phone. The Motley Fool’s Chief Investment Officer Scott Phillips told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'if CBA get away with this, give it a month or a month and a half and the other banks will all be doing the same thing too, so now is the time to make our voices heard.

The case regarding the potential release of the Bali Five looks to be set for a resolution this month after Indonesia’s Co-ordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra met with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in Jakarta on Tuesday. Professor Donald Rothwell, one of Australia’s leading experts in International Law, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'Indonesia's made the offer, it's now up to Australia to make sure that it happens from the Australian side, so to speak.' 'The difficulty that I see is that Australia and Indonesia don't have a prisoner transfer agreement in place. In other words, there's no bilateral treaty that exists between the two countries that can actually facilitate this process,' Rothwell said.

The Australian Federal Police, Queensland Police and Australian Border Force have charged a group of 13 men in the largest-ever cocaine bust in Australian history. The police seized a whopping 2.34 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of $760 million from a vessel off the coast of Queensland on Saturday. Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'we alleged that the organisers of this include the vice president of the Brisbane Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang, so a significant impact we believe.'

The Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide has finally been handed down with the report finding that 1677 serving and former defence personnel have died by suicide between 1997 and 2021. This is more than 20-times the number killed in active duty over the same period. Additionally, the report revealed that 800 sexual assaults have been recorded within the ADF in the last five years, with 60 per cent of cases believed to have not been reported. Julie-Anne Finney, who sadly lost her Royal Navy son David to suicide in 2019, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I'm incredibly grateful for the amount of recommendations that have been accepted by the government.' 'If this isn't lip service, then I believe we're going to go a long way to saving lives,' she said.

Paul Vautin has officially retired from broadcasting after more than three decades on Nine's Wide World of Sport. The rugby league legend told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'the game's in a great spot... they're doing their best. It's just a couple of things that annoy me, but that's not the reason I retired.' 'I retired because I just ran out of petrol and in the end, I started driving to Brisbane for a Friday night game, going, you know what, I wish I was at home watching the footy tonight rather than driving up here and calling it. So, I just ran out of juice,' Vautin said. Fatty said he feels 'proud and contented' with his broadcasting career.

The nation’s second-biggest pubs group, Australian Venue Co, has informed managers there will be no celebrations or acknowledgment of Australia Day at their premises in 2025. The change comes due to claims the day causes 'sadness' and 'hurt' for some patrons. Warren Mundine told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'this is what it's all about, Australia. It's not about anyone else. It's about Australians.' 'It's about all these people that come here as immigrants after the Second World War and before and helped with Indigenous people and other people who were here before that and built this great nation. That's what we should be celebrating,' Mundine said.

Australia Day celebrations have been banned at more than 200 pubs and bars across the country, including at least 90 in Queensland. The nation’s second-biggest pubs group, Australian Venue Co, has informed managers there will be no celebrating or acknowledging of Australia Day at their premises in 2025 because they say the day causes sadness and hurt for some patrons. Peter Fegan commented on 4BC Breakfast, 'I am so sick and tired of big corporations setting the moral compass.'

A new survey has revealed that Queensland nurses have been ditching night shifts because of verbal, physical and sexual harassment when they are walking to and from their cars after hours. The President of the Nurses Professional Association of Queensland, Kara Thomas, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "a lot of them are having to park a long way from the hospital and walk quite some distances in the dark where there is no CCTV cameras." "It's very poor lighting, we're in the midst of a crime crisis and they're telling us stories about being threatened physically, verbally abused, nurses have been egged and run back into the hospital." There is an alleyway near Ipswich hospital that our members tell us has been dubbed 'rape alley',' she said.

Dan Nolan and Ben Stivala have won Queensland Journalist of the Year for their work on A Current Affair at The Clarion Awards on Saturday. They won the award for their work following Yolanda Borucki, a former childcare manager accused of accessing a work computer without her former employer's consent and distributing confidential documents. Dan Nolan told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'both of us are very proud to have won those awards and won that honour, but unfortunately the investigation that we've won it for, there's really nothing to celebrate about this case involving Ashley Griffiths and how it's been handled.' 'There's been a lot of missed opportunities and there's been a lot of failures in this case,' Nolan said.

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Celebrity Chef Adrian Richardson has given the 4BC listeners some inspiration for professional nibbles and snacks this festive season.

The 'Making QLD Safer Laws' have been front and centre for the newly-elected LNP Government with parliament sitting for the last time this year. Time is running out for David Crisafulli who promised that these laws will be legislated by the end of the year. The Queensland Premier told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I made quite a number of commitments that we would do in the first 100 days, and we will meet every single one of them.' 'It's important to me that if you say if you're going to do something on one side of the election you do it on the other,' Crisafulli said. 'I think even our hardest of critics would have to acknowledge we've made a pretty good start.'

Bill McDonald from 4BC Mornings joined Peter Fegan on Breakfast to announce the 2025 4BC live and local line up!

Boxing Day this year will mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 which to this day is one of the worst natural disaster event to ever occur with over 227,000 people killed. Australian forensic specialist Peter Baines was one of the people tasked with identifying the bodies of thousands of victims. This experience inspired Peter to launch his own charity called Hands Across the Water which provides long-term support to children who were orphaned or displaced by the disaster. This year Peter will be running 33 marathons in 26 days to hopefully raise $1 million for his charity. Peter Baines told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it's an important journey, we want to raise a million dollars.' We want to raise awareness, we've raised $35 million,' he said. 'We have been and are the largest contributing Australian charity to Thailand. We've put 40 kids through university. We're building an agricultural learning centre, a hospitality learning centre,' Baines said. 'But, we're basically unknown in Thailand, all of that $35 million has basically come from Australia and hopefully the run will change that.'

The Sunshine Coast Council has come under some scrutiny for cancelling its midnight fireworks display. The Council has said safety concerns, crime and costs are the reasons for their decision. Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it was a resolution of Council, so it is a full Council decision.' 'I can't just turn around and with the swipe of a pen overturn that. And I am standing up and saying, this is not something I personally am happy about and let's see if we can find a way forward,' she said.

Senator Fatima Payman ripped into Pauline Hanson in Parliament yesterday after the One Nation Senator questioned her eligibility to sit in parliament. Peter Fegan asked Senator Pauline Hanson on 4BC Breakfast whether or not she is a racist to which she replied 'not at all' and labelled all allegations as 'utter rubbish'.

Legislation passing today will allow the Federal Government to increase their funding to public schools beyond the 20% it currently offers. Acting President of the Queensland Teachers Union Leah Olsson told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'on a macro level, you're talking about $1.4 billion across Australia per year to fully fund State schools.' 'Fully funding and resourcing our State schools will mean those other issues around occupational violence, workload, all of those things that we're all grappling across the country with right now, will have an impact,' she said. 'This funding will have an impact in resolving some of those issues.'

Black Friday is on the horizon which means millions of Australians will be hunting for sales and discounts. As a results, everyone needs to remain on high alert for the scammers trying to take advantage of unaware consumers. Detective Acting Chief Superintendent Craig McGrath from the Finance and Cyber Crime Group told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'in the last quarter we lost about $49 million across Queensland for various types of scams.'

The Brisbane Broncos have signed veteran halfback Ben Hunt on a two-year deal worth around $600,000 per season. Ben Hunt told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'in my heart it always kept taking me back to Brisbane and just the possibility of finishing my career off there and where it all started.' Going back to my beginnings, it was kind of what really got us over the line in the end,' he said. 'It was just that the love for the place and what the club gave me in my early part of my career.'

David Crisafulli's LNP Government has agreed to Labor's gender quotas, backflipping on their previous strong stance. Peter Fegan said on 4BC Breakfast that he is 'disappointed' in the Premier for making this decision.

The Greens have finally come around to backing Labor's housing bill after opposing it for so long which has put Australia a year behind according to Senator Jacqui Lambie. Greens Housing Spokesperson Max Chandler-Mather told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'part of the reason it took so long was because last year we did pass Labor's Housing Australia Future Fund in exchange for securing $3 billion of investment in social housing.' 'That is the biggest direct investment in social housing in over a decade that the Greens secured, six times what Labor originally planned to spend and we thought let's try and do that again because the housing crisis is so bad.'

Ratepayers are going to have to cough up $1.5 billion to repair the 84-year-old Story Bridge to meet industry standards. Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'before the bridge turned 80, we started towards the 100-year birthday doing that work.' 'But it's just become clear that it's a much bigger job than anticipated and also the other thing that's happened over the last five years is costs of doing anything have increased significantly. So, what something costs today is much more than it cost five years ago and that's the challenge,' Schrinner said.

It has been 50 years since Cyclone Tracy blew threw Darwin on Christmas Day in 1974. Sky News Journalist Matt Cunningham told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'at the time it was the smallest cyclone that had ever been recorded, but it made a direct hit on Darwin and it packed such a mighty punch that it flatten the entire city.'

The Federal Government has 76 bills to pass this week in Parliament. One major talking point is the fact that the Greens have given in to supporting Labor's housing bill. Senator Jacqui Lambie told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'Those Greens, I hope it's been worth all the grandstanding, because you've now put us a year behind'.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has lobbied the new Indonesian president to release the remaining members of the Bali Nine who are still serving life sentences. The Age and the SMH Indonesian correspondent from 2012-14 Michael Bachelard told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'drug traffickers are not popular in Indonesia, particularly when they come from Western countries because there's kind of a feeling that Indonesia needs to stand up to Western countries and colonial powers.'

The Strickland's from Burpengary East are the creators behind Brisbane's biggest Christmas light display. However, this year there will be no 'Merry Strickland Christmas' after the family received several crude comments and threats online. David Strickland told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'you try and do as much as you can, but you can't please everyone'.

New data has revealed that youth crime in Queensland has jumped more than ten per cent last financial year. For example, the number of proven offences committed by young people increased from 41,155 in 2022/23 to 46,130 in 2023/24. Youth Justice Minister Laura Gerber told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'Labor has been telling Queenslanders a lie for the last five years in relation to youth crime.' 'In fact, youth crime has been going up for the last five years, despite at estimates every year, Labor saying things are getting better and our plan is working,' she said.

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Comedian Arj Barker is in Australia touring with 'The Minefield' tour. The American funny man dropped into 4BC Breakfast with Peter Fegan to explain what people can expect from his show and what he loves about touring Australia.

Questions are still being raised over the TikTok famous Brisbane mother at the centre of allegations that she harmed her one-year-old. Queensland Police Service Commissioner Steve Gollschewski told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it's under investigation, we are doing that as quickly as we can'. 'The little one is safe so we'll work through that and get an outcome pretty soon I hope,' Commissioner Gollschewski said.

Next week The Courier Mail will be hosting a 'Future Brisbane' forum to gather insights into what the city and indeed South East Queensland will look like as we head towards 2032. The Courier Mail Editor Chris Jones told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'if we don't, as a community, get together and have a proper conversation which leads to a proper plan about legacy, what is it that we are going to look back on in 2040? Jones also discussed the start of Crisafulli's term in government and how he is performing including the decision to reinstate the Bruce Highway Advisory Council.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland has introduced social media age ban legislation to parliament. The legislation will be called the Online Safety Amendment Social Media Minimum Age Bill 2024 and it well amend the Online Safety Act 2021.

New research by Indooroopilly Shopping Centre has revealed that Queenslanders will spend about $6 billion this Christmas season. Senior Marketing Manager at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre Jessica Tye told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'the average Queenslander is set to spend about $15,000 each.'

The Crisafulli Government is set to reinstate the Bruce Highway Advisory Council by the end of this year in its bid to provide a long-term plan for the road. The Transport Minister Brent Micklberg told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'this will be a promise made and a promise kept.' Micklberg went on to say the advisory council will be led by Queenslanders rather than government bureaucrats. He said, 'We want to see is people from a broad cross-section of our communities right up and down the coast. The Bruce obviously needs a considerable amount of work, but we're going to need to prioritise those areas that are going to have the greatest bang for our buck.' Micklberg also mentioned that he will continue to push for 80-20 funding from the Federal Government.

Peter Dutton has declared that he will join the Greens in an attempt to block the  Federal Government's plan to put a cap on international students. Senator Jane Hume told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'we actually think international students caps are a good idea, but the legislation that the government has put forward, we think could actually make the problem worse.' 'If you put caps on one part of the system, then problems will just pop up in another, because the system itself is chaotic and confused,' she said.

The world's first sugar-free sparkling hyper-tonic drink in a can has been launched by Merrick Watts. The celebrated media personality, comedian, and SAS Australia winner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "Posca Hydrate is based on a 2,500-year-old recipe, it's an ancient Roman recipe."

Two Australian teenagers are fighting for their lives in Thailand after their drinks were spiked with methanol. Methanol is used in developing countries to maximise profits by cutting or mixing drinking alcohol with cheap alternatives. The head of Monash University's Forensic Medicine Department Professor David Ranson told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "The breakdown products of methanol are very, very dangerous...these things actively kill cells in the body."

Peter Fegan believes Australians have lost their patience especially when it comes to driving and shopping.

Last month, Qatar Airways announced its intention to buy a minority stake in Virgin Australia subject to ACCC approval. The ACCC's interim authorisation is due to be handed down next week. One person supporting this merger is Flight Centre Founder Graham 'Skroo' Turner. Mr Turner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, " I think the travel industry and the tourism industry concurs."

The highly anticipated Brisbane Metro has been halted just four weeks after its launch, with the Brisbane City Council in negotiations with the state government over several ongoing teething issues. Brisbane Metro might return next year, but the future of the $1.5 billion project is still uncertain. There has been widespread criticism of the council for running the Brisbane Metro as a trial, but not telling the public. Councillor Ryan Murphy told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "Perhaps we've failed in communicating that clearly, I accept that and I apologise to anyone who feels that they've been misled."