Once upon a time an adolescents experience of porn was sharing a Playboy magazine stolen from dad’s hidden stash.

By today’s standards it seems positively quaint.

The advent of the internet and the proliferation of free porn sites has exposed younger and younger children to more extreme and violent porn.

Maree Crabbe from the Reality and Risk Project will hold a forum for parents in Ipswich on Wednesday to help them deal with the pitfalls of porn.

She tells Mark today’s porn is creating a generation of young people with totally unrealistic expectations of sex and relationships.

If you’d like to attend the forum you can register at:

‘It’s Time we Talked – Community Information Evening’.

Kougari Oval has been the home to Wynnum-Manly Seagulls since 1967 and is an integral part of the Manly community, but it turns out many of us have been pronouncing it incorrectly.

Most people pronounce it KOO-gar-i, while an ad running on 4BC has used a different version - Koo-GARIE.

Mark decided to settle the argument once and for all and according to Rory O’Conner from the Yugambeh Language and Heritage Research Centre we’ve all been saying it wrong.

Normally when we think of archaeology we think of searching dusty deserts and thick jungles for ancient ruins and hidden treasures.

But a fledgling field of the discipline is looking up, rather than down, to the artifacts of our move into space.

Space archaeologist Alice Gorman (aka Dr Space Junk) is a leader in the field and she explains to Mark it’s important to preserve important parts of our past for the future.

Brisbane deputy mayor Adrian Schrinner is preparing to don the lord mayoral robes after being anointed by his LNP colleagues to take over from Graham Quirk.

Councillor Quirk will officially step down next Sunday and Cr Schrinner and his new deputy will; be sworn in on the following Monday.

The lord mayor designate has been quick out of the blocks proposing five new bridges to span the Brisbane River and he tells Mark he is looking forward to the challenges ahead.

Labor leader Bill Shorten wants half of all new cars sold in Australia to be electric vehicles by 2030.

It’s an ambitious target given that electric cars currently account for 0.2 per cent of sales, but not as radical as the NRMA which is suggesting a ban on all new petrol and deisel cars by 2025.

Paul Maric from caradvice.com.au tells Mark the issue will be establishing an adequate network of charging stations to make the targets workable.

If you are looking for something to in southeast Queensland this week never fear because 4BC’s Olympia Kwitkowski has got you covered.

Jon Stevens has been a staple of Australian music since his band Noiseworks exploded on the scene in the Mid 80s.

In a long and varied career he’s performed in stage musicals and also fronted INXS in the wake of Michael Hutchence’s death.

Jon is still recording and releasing music including his recent iTunes Australian rock No.1 Rain Down On Me.

He’s due to perform at Tivoli next month and he tells Mark that because he has such a big back catalogue things never get boring for him or the audience.

The Brisbane City Council has submitted a proposal to the state government that would force the owners of declared and dangerous dogs to make their enclosures more childproof.

The council would like to see a standard that makes it impossible for children to put their arms and legs through enclosures.

If accepted, the proposal council even make owners build enclosures from brick, timber and even iron.

Andrea Miszczuk from Queensland Staffy and Amstaff Rescue has concerns about what’s being proposed and she tells Mark it’s often less the dog and more the owner that’s the problem.

All ball sports demand a standard ball and in cricket that extends all the way from the test arena to the local community cricket club.

Cricket Australia has given the job of developing a new Australian Cricket Ball Standard to a team at the University of Queensland.

Associate Professor Glen Lichtwark from the UQ School of Human Movement explains to Mark that a suite of testing methods have been developed, including an air-powered cannon.

The platypus is notoriously shy and sightings of them are rare, especially around built up areas and on the outskirts of our cities.

So the reported sighting of one in the Albert River last year by a member of the public prompted the Logan Council and the Wildlife Preservation Society to mount a search.

University of Queensland PhD student Tamielle Brunt was tasked with the job and she tells Mark she didn’t see one but environmental DNA testing proves they are there.