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Paul Vautin has officially retired from broadcasting after more than three decades on Nine's Wide World of Sport.

The rugby league legend told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'the game's in a great spot... they're doing their best. It's just a couple of things that annoy me, but that's not the reason I retired.'

'I retired because I just ran out of petrol and in the end, I started driving to Brisbane for a Friday night game, going, you know what, I wish I was at home watching the footy tonight rather than driving up here and calling it.

So, I just ran out of juice,' Vautin said.

Fatty said he feels 'proud and contented' with his broadcasting career.

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The nation’s second-biggest pubs group, Australian Venue Co, has informed managers there will be no celebrations or acknowledgment of Australia Day at their premises in 2025.

The change comes due to claims the day causes 'sadness' and 'hurt' for some patrons.

Warren Mundine told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'this is what it's all about, Australia. It's not about anyone else. It's about Australians.'

'It's about all these people that come here as immigrants after the Second World War and before and helped with Indigenous people and other people who were here before that and built this great nation.

That's what we should be celebrating,' Mundine said.

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Australia Day celebrations have been banned at more than 200 pubs and bars across the country, including at least 90 in Queensland.

The nation’s second-biggest pubs group, Australian Venue Co, has informed managers there will be no celebrating or acknowledging of Australia Day at their premises in 2025 because they say the day causes sadness and hurt for some patrons.

Peter Fegan commented on 4BC Breakfast, 'I am so sick and tired of big corporations setting the moral compass.'

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A new survey has revealed that Queensland nurses have been ditching night shifts because of verbal, physical and sexual harassment when they are walking to and from their cars after hours.

The President of the Nurses Professional Association of Queensland, Kara Thomas, told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, "a lot of them are having to park a long way from the hospital and walk quite some distances in the dark where there is no CCTV cameras."

"It's very poor lighting, we're in the midst of a crime crisis and they're telling us stories about being threatened physically, verbally abused, nurses have been egged and run back into the hospital."

There is an alleyway near Ipswich hospital that our members tell us has been dubbed 'rape alley',' she said.

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Dan Nolan and Ben Stivala have won Queensland Journalist of the Year for their work on A Current Affair at The Clarion Awards on Saturday.

They won the award for their work following Yolanda Borucki, a former childcare manager accused of accessing a work computer without her former employer's consent and distributing confidential documents.

Dan Nolan told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'both of us are very proud to have won those awards and won that honour, but unfortunately the investigation that we've won it for, there's really nothing to celebrate about this case involving Ashley Griffiths and how it's been handled.'

'There's been a lot of missed opportunities and there's been a lot of failures in this case,' Nolan said.

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The 'Making QLD Safer Laws' have been front and centre for the newly-elected LNP Government with parliament sitting for the last time this year.

Time is running out for David Crisafulli who promised that these laws will be legislated by the end of the year.

The Queensland Premier told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'I made quite a number of commitments that we would do in the first 100 days, and we will meet every single one of them.'

'It's important to me that if you say if you're going to do something on one side of the election you do it on the other,' Crisafulli said.

'I think even our hardest of critics would have to acknowledge we've made a pretty good start.'

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