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

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Gender-based violence continues to rise. Statistics show that a woman is intentionally killed by a partner or a family member every ten minutes.

QPS Assistant Commissioner Katherine Innes, head of the QPS Domestic Violence and Vulnerable Person Command, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "taking over this role only in the last three weeks and digging into our calls for service and the reality of what this is, is really quite confronting."

"It's interesting because my background is in crime and I think sometimes people think domestic violence is something different to crime, but it's homicide, assault, rape, kidnapping, abduction, life-endangering acts, stalking, strangulation, it's really serious behaviour," she said.

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The second teenager who was present at the North Lakes home of Emma and Lee Lovell when Emma was killed on Boxing Day 2022 has walked free.

Justice Michael Copley found him guilty of burglary and assault in company and sentenced the teen to 18 months in jail, but due to time already served, the 19-year-old is out in the community ahead of the second anniversary of Emma Lovell’s death.

The Attorney-General, Deb Frecklington told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, “The Emma Lovell case, and what Lee Lovell and his beautiful daughters and family have had to go through, quite frankly… has been shocking.’

“If we ever needed a greater example for tougher laws, tougher sentencing guidelines, it is this case.”

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As of January 2025, Commonwealth Bank will be closing certain accounts and moving customers to its ‘Smart Access’ accounts.

This change means some CBA customers will face a $3 fee for assisted withdrawals at branches or via phone.

The Motley Fool’s Chief Investment Officer Scott Phillips told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'if CBA get away with this, give it a month or a month and a half and the other banks will all be doing the same thing too, so now is the time to make our voices heard.

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The case regarding the potential release of the Bali Five looks to be set for a resolution this month after Indonesia’s Co-ordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Corrections Yusril Ihza Mahendra met with Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Professor Donald Rothwell, one of Australia’s leading experts in International Law, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'Indonesia's made the offer, it's now up to Australia to make sure that it happens from the Australian side, so to speak.'

'The difficulty that I see is that Australia and Indonesia don't have a prisoner transfer agreement in place.

In other words, there's no bilateral treaty that exists between the two countries that can actually facilitate this process,' Rothwell said.

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The Australian Federal Police, Queensland Police and Australian Border Force have charged a group of 13 men in the largest-ever cocaine bust in Australian history.

The police seized a whopping 2.34 tonnes of cocaine with an estimated street value of $760 million from a vessel off the coast of Queensland on Saturday.

Australian Federal Police Commander Stephen Jay told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'we alleged that the organisers of this include the vice president of the Brisbane Comanchero outlaw motorcycle gang, so a significant impact we believe.'

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The Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide has finally been handed down with the report finding that 1677 serving and former defence personnel have died by suicide between 1997 and 2021.

This is more than 20-times the number killed in active duty over the same period.

Additionally, the report revealed that 800 sexual assaults have been recorded within the ADF in the last five years, with 60 per cent of cases believed to have not been reported.

Julie-Anne Finney, who sadly lost her Royal Navy son David to suicide in 2019, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I'm incredibly grateful for the amount of recommendations that have been accepted by the government.'

'If this isn't lip service, then I believe we're going to go a long way to saving lives,' she said.

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