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Bill McDonald from 4BC Mornings joined Peter Fegan on Breakfast to announce the 2025 4BC live and local line up!

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Boxing Day this year will mark 20 years since the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 which to this day is one of the worst natural disaster event to ever occur with over 227,000 people killed.

Australian forensic specialist Peter Baines was one of the people tasked with identifying the bodies of thousands of victims.

This experience inspired Peter to launch his own charity called Hands Across the Water which provides long-term support to children who were orphaned or displaced by the disaster.

This year Peter will be running 33 marathons in 26 days to hopefully raise $1 million for his charity.

Peter Baines told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it's an important journey, we want to raise a million dollars.'

We want to raise awareness, we've raised $35 million,' he said.

'We have been and are the largest contributing Australian charity to Thailand. We've put 40 kids through university.

We're building an agricultural learning centre, a hospitality learning centre,' Baines said.

'But, we're basically unknown in Thailand, all of that $35 million has basically come from Australia and hopefully the run will change that.'

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The Sunshine Coast Council has come under some scrutiny for cancelling its midnight fireworks display.

The Council has said safety concerns, crime and costs are the reasons for their decision.

Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'it was a resolution of Council, so it is a full Council decision.'

'I can't just turn around and with the swipe of a pen overturn that. And I am standing up and saying, this is not something I personally am happy about and let's see if we can find a way forward,' she said.

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Senator Fatima Payman ripped into Pauline Hanson in Parliament yesterday after the One Nation Senator questioned her eligibility to sit in parliament.

Peter Fegan asked Senator Pauline Hanson on 4BC Breakfast whether or not she is a racist to which she replied 'not at all' and labelled all allegations as 'utter rubbish'.

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Legislation passing today will allow the Federal Government to increase their funding to public schools beyond the 20% it currently offers.

Acting President of the Queensland Teachers Union Leah Olsson told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'on a macro level, you're talking about $1.4 billion across Australia per year to fully fund State schools.'

'Fully funding and resourcing our State schools will mean those other issues around occupational violence, workload, all of those things that we're all grappling across the country with right now, will have an impact,' she said.

'This funding will have an impact in resolving some of those issues.'

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Black Friday is on the horizon which means millions of Australians will be hunting for sales and discounts.

As a results, everyone needs to remain on high alert for the scammers trying to take advantage of unaware consumers.

Detective Acting Chief Superintendent Craig McGrath from the Finance and Cyber Crime Group told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'in the last quarter we lost about $49 million across Queensland for various types of scams.'

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The Brisbane Broncos have signed veteran halfback Ben Hunt on a two-year deal worth around $600,000 per season.

Ben Hunt told Peter Fegan on 4BC Breakfast, 'in my heart it always kept taking me back to Brisbane and just the possibility of finishing my career off there and where it all started.'

Going back to my beginnings, it was kind of what really got us over the line in the end,' he said.

'It was just that the love for the place and what the club gave me in my early part of my career.'

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David Crisafulli's LNP Government has agreed to Labor's gender quotas, backflipping on their previous strong stance.

Peter Fegan said on 4BC Breakfast that he is 'disappointed' in the Premier for making this decision.

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