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Police resources are stretched with upwards of 100 unresourced calls for assistance on a daily basis with 70 to 80 percent of these calls being Domestic and Family Violence related.

Queensland Police Service Union President Shane Prior told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'The community needs to understand that this is no longer okay.'

'We need to invest in breaking the cycle of violence and we need to develop programs so we do break the cycle of violence.'

'We think elevating domestic and family violence through a commissioner who can coordinate all those social services in a bolstered sector will do a lot for the community.'

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The Department of Transport and Main Roads has released data collected between 2021 and 2023 to reveal Brisbane's most dangerous intersections based on the number of serious crashes.

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This Christmas Eve, Nine’s Carols by Candlelight are back and bigger than ever.

It will be hosted by Sarah Abo and David Campbell and they will be joined by many guests including ARIA winners and musical theatre favourites.

The night of heart, music and Yuletide tradition will be raising funds for Vision Australia's children services.

David Campbell told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'people have their favourites and they have their traditions and they sit down and I forget sometimes that, yes, we say it all the time that people sit down as a family, but they really do.'

'And it really is something that is we have when we're watching it growing up and then we share it with our kids and we go back and some people have Christmas on Christmas Eve and all this stuff,' Campbell said.

'It's just a beautiful tradition.'

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Despite the Albanese Government pushing ahead with renewables and the Coalition planning for nuclear, coal is still Australia's leading export and is currently keeping lights on across the country.

Coal Australia's inaugural CEO Stuart Bocking told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'the reality is if you were to speak to the treasurer of Queensland, the treasurer of New South Wales and said to them, by the way, coal's gone tomorrow, they would have a heart attack.'

'Because the royalties coming in from coal run to billions of dollars.'

'Regardless of what happens here on the energy front in Australia, demand for export coal will continue for many years to come,' Bocking said.

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There are groundbreaking plans for Australia to send a semi-autonomous rover to the moon.

The Brisbane-based company, E-P-E Oceania, is co-leading the development of the rover alongside NASA and the Australian Space Agency.

The Head of Australia's Space Agency Enrico Palermo told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'today's a historic step for the nation. We are one step closer to seeing a little Aussie rover on the surface of the moon and this is something that is truly inspiring the nation.'

'This is the first time Australia is going to develop its own machine, a robot, that will go to another surface of a body in our solar system and that's a pivotal moment for the Australian space sector.'

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The clock is ticking on the aging Gabba with many saying the stadium needs an overhaul. This is especially apparent as almost all of Day 1 of the third Test between Australia and India was rained out.

Queensland Cricket CEO Terry Svenson told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'in relation to the Gabba, we've outgrown it.'

'We've had a full house the last couple of days and the Lions, for instance, they've got well over 60,000 members now and heading to 70,' Svenson said.

'I think Greg Swan, who I was with over the weekend, said nine of their 11 games are sold out.'

'We've got really strong crowds at cricket, but also test cricket and the Big Bash as well.'

Queensland Cricket has endorsed a stadium at Victoria Park, but is awaiting the results of the 100-day review into Olympic venues authorised by the Crisafulli Government. 

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Over the weekend the Brisbane region saw 94mm of rain in 40 minutes hitting suburbs like Mansfield, East Brisbane, Morayfield and Camp Hill the hardest.

More storms are being forecast and South-East Queensland is on on high alert.

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'It's a reminder that a large percentage of Brisbane is built on a floodplain.'

'The thing about some of these areas is that they are very low-lying, and because of their level in terms of the ground level, the water is effectively at creek level.'

'The only real solution to stop flooding in some of those areas would be for everyone to move out.

There's no drain that's going to fix it, and we're not going to ask people to move out of areas that have been established for 100 or 150 years, and so that's the challenge,' the Lord Mayor said.

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It's been a busy past week in news with the remaining Bali Nine members returning home and the violence in Alice Springs hitting crisis level again.

The Coalition also released it's nuclear costings on Friday which was met with widespread criticism. 

Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "The government is so far behind in the rollout of their renewables, which is why we're now starting to see an increasing prospect of blackouts and brownouts."

'And it's why there's been a threefold increase in the number of manufacturing businesses that have closed under the government's watch over the last two years because companies just can't operate in an environment where the power is turning on and off," Dutton said.

"I think there's a realisation now that some of the emotion around renewables has to be replaced with a reality."

'Every credible competitor nation is either using nuclear already or has said that they will use it into the future because there's no other option,' Dutton continued.

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