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Flooding is still causing chaos across North Queensland with the Bruce Highway cut off in multiple spots and over 300 roads are closed.

The rainfall and flooding in the region was a rarer than a one-in-2000-year event.

National’s Leader David Littleproud told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "I was an emergency services minister and I remember we rebuilt the same bridge three times."

"Why wouldn't we build it to a higher standard so it doesn't get washed out?"

"This is where you just need some common sense and put the egos away between state and federal governments, it's having the courage to actually, where there needs to be betterment, you build it better," Mr. Littleproud said.

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

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Questions are circulating about the Prime Minister's whereabouts yesterday after he left Townsville and flew to Brisbane where he spent several hours, before heading to Alice Springs late at night.

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Bronwyn Winfield, devote mother of two, disappeared 31 years ago in the surf town of Lennox Head.

Investigative Journalist Hedley Thomas' latest podcast gives plenty of compelling reasons for why authorities should continue the search for the missing northern New South Wales mum.

Thomas told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "Glenn Taylor, the retired detective sergeant, has said if he were running this case now, he would be asking the coroner to reopen the inquest or use her powers to organise a search beneath the slab of this property in Illalong," Hedley Thomas said.

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The Albanese Government’s tough new hate crime laws have officially passed in the Senate.

The laws will introduce mandatory minimum sentences of six years for terror offences, three years for financing terrorism and one year for displaying hate symbols.

Former Labor minister Graham Richardson told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "I think that you have to, in politics, be able to change direction."

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The federal government has passed minimum jail sentences of between one and six years for hate speech crimes.

On 4BC Breakfast, Peter Fegan labelled the move by Anthony Albanese as "one of the greatest backflips in history."

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The Queensland Government will be unveiling their new name for Satellite Hospitals at the Redlands Hospital today.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "We will be renaming them satellite health centres."

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The Queensland Police Service sent an email, acting as the union, to all officers offering a five per cent pay rise as a part of a 'training exercise' to test staff's willingness to engage in phishing emails.

QPS Union President Shane Prior told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "This just makes the process of us emailing our members harder."

"They may think that if they get an email from us about enterprise bargaining, that it's just a scam and that is just a significant breach of trust on our part," Mr. Prior said.

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