Following Remembrance Day, Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings speaks with Camp SMEAC founder Tim Cuming about how veterans converted a trashed 50-hectare site into an all-volunteer community offering emergency rehabilitation, medical care, and retraining to address the veteran suicide crisis. 

Cuming reveals their battle against systemic bureaucracy and funding shortfalls to self-sustain their operations, while passionately condemning the nationwide wave of vandalism targeting sacred war memorials.

Following Remembrance Day, Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings speaks with Camp SMEAC founder Tim Cuming about how veterans converted a trashed 50-hectare site into an all-volunteer community offering emergency rehabilitation, medical care, and retraining to address the veteran suicide crisis. 
Cuming reveals their battle against systemic bureaucracy and funding shortfalls to self-sustain their operations, while passionately condemning the nationwide wave of vandalism targeting sacred war memorials.

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How one veteran turned an abandoned campsite into a lifeline for homeless soldiers

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Gold Coast Year 12 student Nick Seeto has been named TAFE Queensland’s 2026 Gold Coast School-Based Apprentice of the Year after successfully balancing high school studies with hands-on electrical work at Crystal Waters Electrical. 

In this interview with Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings, he reflects on transitioning from homeschooling, financing an overseas charity house-build in Cambodia by mowing lawns, and his ambitions to establish his own trade business within three years.

Gold Coast Year 12 student Nick Seeto has been named TAFE Queensland&rsquo;s 2026 Gold Coast School-Based Apprentice of the Year after successfully balancing high school studies with hands-on electrical work at Crystal Waters Electrical. 
In this interview with Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings, he reflects on transitioning from homeschooling, financing an overseas charity house-build in Cambodia by mowing lawns, and his ambitions to establish his own trade business within three years.

Gold Coast teen named Apprentice of the Year after raising thousands to build homes in Cambodia

Following the state's promotion of Queensland’s Taroom Trough as Australia’s first major new oil province in 50 years, Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings speaks with Dayne Pratzky - the anti-fracking activist known as "Frackman" - about the severe environmental hazards to local water supplies and prime agricultural land. 

Pratzky warns that the multi-billion-dollar project mirrors economically disastrous shale oil booms in the United States and urges the nation to invest in renewable transport rather than risky, expensive fossil fuel extraction.

Following the state's promotion of Queensland&rsquo;s Taroom Trough as Australia&rsquo;s first major new oil province in 50 years, Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings speaks with Dayne Pratzky - the anti-fracking activist known as "Frackman" - about the severe environmental hazards to local water supplies and prime agricultural land. 
Pratzky warns that the multi-billion-dollar project mirrors economically disastrous shale oil booms in the United States and urges the nation to invest in renewable transport rather than risky, expensive fossil fuel extraction.

How one veteran turned an abandoned campsite into a lifeline for homeless soldiers

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