4BC Mornings

There’s been a lot of pushback related to the Moreton Bay council issuing compliance notices that threaten large fines for homeless residents at Suttons Beach park in Redcliffe. 

Beau Haywood, the founder of local food charity Nourish Street has been assisting the homeless in the area and he told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "When you become homeless, depression kicks in pretty quick, and then when you've got to move on like this, it really does impact your mental health."

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A major leak of confidential files from Australia’s biggest taxi company has exposed accusations from its own senior staff that it failed to stop rampant rorting of passengers and government organisations.

The leaked documents from A2B, the company behind 13cabs, Silver Service and Cabcharge, detail explicit allegations to the firm’s top executives that failing internal controls had enabled “eye-watering fraud” to continue for years.

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Richard French from the 4BC Newsroom joined Bill McDonald to discuss what you have have missed around the world this week, including 600 million in lost bitcoin and a kayaker swallowed by whale.

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Gerard Rennick was elected as a member of the LNP and sat with the Liberal Party in parliament, until resigning from the party last year to sit as an independent with his own People First Party.

Rennick told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "My issue is with the cost of registration for someone, for an Australian to actually run."

"So the registration cost for a person has increased from $1,000 to $2,000."

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Bill has been experiencing an ongoing saga with the Brisbane City Council involving a dead tree he is attempting to remove from his yard, and since, 4BC Mornings have been made aware that there are others having the same issues.

Shane Bowering from Red Tape Busters joined Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings to discuss how to navigate the mess of council red tape.

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NSW Health is reviewing the care provided by two Sydney nurses who were suspended from their positions after making antisemitic comments to a Jewish influencer online.

Jason Steinberg, President of the Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies and chairman of the QLD Holocaust Museum told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "That should be a wake-up call to governments and authorities that things can't be swept under the carpet in terms of anti-Semitism."

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Year on year Married At First Sight hooks audiences across Australia with its unique mix of participants.

Each episode rakes in over 2 million views, with last Sunday’s controversial episode gaining a whopping 3 million plus viewers. 

MAFS expert, John Aiken told Bill McDonald on 4BC Mornings, "There's a lot of reasons I think why the show's become so successful and it now goes into 120 countries."

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