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After a devastating breakup and corporate burnout in 1995, 29-year-old Brisbane local John Ahern sold everything for a one-way ticket to post-apartheid Africa, only to face charging elephants, active landmines, and armed militia. 

His impulsive journey took a deadly turn in Kenya when a stranger drugged him with a piece of chocolate on a bus, landing him behind bars and caught in a capital punishment trial - a harrowing survival story he has now captured in his new memoir, The Last Bus to Lamu.

After a devastating breakup and corporate burnout in 1995, 29-year-old Brisbane local John Ahern sold everything for a one-way ticket to post-apartheid Africa, only to face charging elephants, active landmines, and armed militia. 
His impulsive journey took a deadly turn in Kenya when a stranger drugged him with a piece of chocolate on a bus, landing him behind bars and caught in a capital punishment trial - a harrowing survival story he has now captured in his new memoir,&nbsp;The Last Bus to Lamu.

How one piece of chocolate left an Aussie tourist poisoned, jailed, and facing the death penalty

Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings and HR Nicholls Executive Director James Mathias dissect Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's early economic election pitch, accusing him of cherry-picking data to mask a per-capita recession, falling real wages, and soaring living costs. 

They argue that massive government spending, public service hiring, and an overwhelmingly complex industrial relations system of over 205,000 pay rates are artificially propping up unemployment figures while crushing small businesses and costing average workers $205 a week.

Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings and HR Nicholls Executive Director James Mathias dissect Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's early economic election pitch, accusing him of cherry-picking data to mask a per-capita recession, falling real wages, and soaring living costs. 
They argue that massive government spending, public service hiring, and an overwhelmingly complex industrial relations system of over 205,000 pay rates are artificially propping up unemployment figures while crushing small businesses and costing average workers $205 a week.

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