Should Brisbane rate payers subsidise the cost of limiting water damage to households in flood zones?

The Brisbane City council’s promised to spend $100m helping residents cope with Flooding in next week’s budget.

Grants of up to $50 thousand dollars will be given to some homes to mitigate flood damage.

Is your place eligible? And how can you access the money?

Ben gets an explanation from the Lord Mayor, Graham Quirk.

Blue Cards are being handed out to people with criminal records, included 2 mothers charged with abusing their own children.

Over the last 12-months the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal has granted permits to 24 people the Department of Justice had rejected.

Some of the crimes they have commited will shock you.

Bravehearts founder, Hetty Johnston, explains to Ben how QCAT are undoing all the good work and why the Palaszczuk Government hasn’t implemented the 81 changes recommended as part of last year’s review.

He’s beaten Cancer twice before, but for the last 6-months, Tommy Raudonikis has been in the fight of his life.

On the eve of the Origin Series opener, the former New South Wales Captain and Coach, made the daunting visit to his specialist for the final results.

The Cattle Dog tells Ben it was going to go one of two ways

How young is too young to play Origin?

Kaylan Ponga and Anthony Milford have been rushed into the Maroons squad for the Origin Series opener in Melbourne after Billy Slater ruled himself out with a hamstring injury.

Who should play at fullback?

Ben picks the brain of one of Queensland and Australia’s best number-1’s, 4BC Sportszone Host, Gary Belcher.

There’s nothing stopping Queensland Rail from hiring new drivers from outside the organisation after the Fair Work Commission dismissed the Rail, Tram and Bus Union’s appeal to effectively keep a “closed shop”.

9-months after the positions were first advertised, the challenge’s delayed training up the extra 200 drivers recommended by the Strachan Review to solve the ‘Rail Fail’.

It’s something Transport Minister, Mark Bailey, refrutes.

So how many have been employed?  

And Ben asks if he’s warned off the RTBU lodging further appeals and applying the brakes once again.

It’s the interview that’s become a story within itself.

Former Deputy PM, Barnaby Joyce, and new partner, Vikki Campion’s paid tell all on Channel 7’s Sunday Night

Ben talks to Alex Cullen, the reporter who sat down with the couple -- what was the feeling like in the room, What bombshells will be dropped -- and most importantly what part Chequebook Journalism plays in the Australian Media landscape.

It’s the collaboration of two Local South East Queensland businesses that's sure to tantalise your tastebuds.

Fortitude Brewing and Merlo Coffee Roasters have joined forces to create Pot Shot Ale -- Coffee flavoured Beer.

Jim O’Connor, the co founder of Fortitude Brewing,  popped by at Beer O’Clock to explain how two strong flavours could possibly work together.

Tolls and Tunnels -- they were supposed to help bust congestions but they aren’t working.

The State Opposition want a parliamentary inquiry as to why drivers are avoiding toll roads on the most underutilised pieces of infrastructure in the South East.

LNP Leader Deb Frecklington spoke to Ben about when this will happen and her Newspaper opinion piece calling for the Palaszczuk Government to cut ties with Unions -- Especially the militant C-F-M-E-U.

Iconic Aussie band Dragon are kicking-off their latest National tour here in Brisbane.

More than Four decades after releasing April Sun in Cuba the band are combining their classics with an unexpected twist.

They drop by and tell Ben why Brisbane’s one of their favourite cities and play two classics.

An extra 24 police officers will be assigned to work as domestic & family violence coordinators across the state, lifting the total number to 54 here in Queensland.

It comes off the back of the Palaszczuk Government’s commitment to allocate an extra $133 million from next Month’s Budget into DV -- Including building 3 new Women’s shelters on the Northern Gold Coast, in the Caboolture region, and out at Roma.

May is Domestic & Family Violence Month, and Brisbane Media have banded together to talk about and amplify #DOSOMETHING campaign.

It isn’t centred around victims & perpetrators, but it’s about you - The Bystander.

Violence “Research & Prevention” Program director… Professor, Paul Mazerolle, from Griffith University shares with Ben how you can make a difference and stop being a bystander.