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The very best from 4BC Breakfast with Peter Fegan this week.

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The Opposition has handed down their budget reply with a strong focus on energy prices, immigration, national security and health and education.

Peter Dutton also has his reply to the PM's first campaign speech.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "My pledge is to make sure that we can have lower inflation, that we can help Australians get back into homes, that we can help with the cost of living pressures by fixing our energy system and by making sure that we've got a safer community and making sure we've got quality health care."

"We manage the economy more effectively so we can pay for those essential services."

"Labor has racked up an enormous amount of debt," the Opposition Leader continued.

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has held a press conference at Parliament House to call the federal election for May 3.

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Outback Queensland has experienced a year's worth of rain in just six days with the rain to continue to fall over the weekend.

An emergency alert was issued this morning for the region with swift water rescue crews airlifted in from Charleville to help evacuate residents and the Premier also arrived in Winton last night.

Queensland Premier David Crisafulli told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "There's predictions that the Thompson River will hit about eight and a half metres, that is uncharted territory."

David Crisafulli also confirmed that he will be looking into getting Western Queensland a rain radar saying the current situation is "unacceptable."

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Round 4 of the NRL kicks off tonight with the Rabbitohs taking on the Panthers and Darryl 'The Big Marn' Brohman joined 4BC Breakfast to give his thoughts and tips for this game and the rest of the round.

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Farmers and residents in South-West Queensland are getting hammered by torrential rain which they didn't know was coming because there is no rain radar in the area.

Murweh Mayor Shaun Radnedge told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "We've been advocating for the last six years that I've been involved, to the federal government of putting a rain radar in the western part of Queensland."

"Now, the closest radar is Alice Springs, you have one in Mount Isa, one in Longreach and one in Charleville."

"These areas that are getting impacted at the moment had no warning."

"For those graveyards that we talk about and it's always cattle and sheep out in those areas, they're going to have huge stock losses because they've never had time to shift their stock," Mr. Radnedge said.

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Though Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred has passed, some are still on edge as parts of Queensland are in for a wet few days.

This has prompted sandbagging stations to reopen in Brisbane as the South-East braces for up to 100mm this weekend.

Acting Assistant Commissioner from the Queensland Police Service Disaster Management Command, John Bosnjak told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "I'd be paying attention to the weather reports and to the disaster dashboards that most councils are running at the moment."

"It's always be prepared, watch out for the weather reports, there is a likelihood of some pretty heavy rain coming in on Saturday, so just keep paying attention to the reports and like I said before, just make sure you act on what the authorities are saying," Mr. Bosnjak said.

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