For most people losing their electricity as a result of Sunday’s wild storm was a major inconvenience. For some other it was far worse than that.

Tanya Wilkinson has a 7 year old paraplegic daughter who relies on a ventilator. When the power went out the machine went down.

Tanya tells Ben it was the generosity of the local community that has seen them through a potentially life threatening outage.

Fugitive corporate coward, Clive Mensink, continues to thumb his nose at authorities while living the high-life in Europe.

All Australians are footing the $70m bailout bill to cover Queensland Nickel worker’s entitlements, while the Former Director continues to use the plastic, get plastic surgery, and apparently a plastic girlfriend.

But the reality of what he left behind continues to haunt Queensland families and one has a message for him.

Are you living in one of Queensland’s Crime Capitals?

Crime Stoppers has released its 2017 figures -- thousands of arrests, even more charges, and the worst crime hotspots in the state.

Crime Stoppers Queensland CEO Trevor O’Hara tells Ben it’s not just minor crimes that are being solved by community minded people.

Caller Christine phoned in to tell Ben of her experience with her Mum in Aged Care.  

It’s an emotional recount highlighting what needs changing.

Madonna King has won awards as a journalist for her stories on Aged Care and the issues faced within the Sector.

Listen to her accounts of what goes on behind the doors in certain facilities and why she’s calling for a Royal Commission into the Industry.

National Party MPs and Senators have thrown their full support behind Barnaby Joyce as controversy rages around the working arrangements for his lover Vikki Campion.

Brisbane Time columnist and political insider, Madonna King, tells Ben she doubts he can survive as Nationals Leader and Deputy PM.

A new study has found Aged Homes are spending little more than $6-a-day to provide meals to their residents which is less than is spent feeding our prison inmates.

One of the authors of the report Cherie Hugo is a Dietitian at Bond University’s Institute of Health and Sport.

She told Ben that while Aged Care chefs do amazing things but there are limits to what can be done for $6.

When the body of 54 year old Bruce Saunders was pulled from an industrial wood chipper on a property near Gympie last November it was thought to have been a tragic accident.

Today, detectives announced they’re treating his death as suspicious.

Channel 7’s Simon Nichols tells Ben police took a renewed interest in the case during their coronial investigation.

Bob Katter Junior, arguably Australia’s most outspoken politician, joined Ben in the studio to discuss the issues of the day.

They covered everything from Barnaby Joyce’s relationship to tensions between the State Government and the CFMEU over building a rail line to the Galilee Basin.

Always controversial, never dull.. Take a listen

Cyberbullying has been on the agenda at the COAG meeting in Canberra.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wants a national response to the crisis.

Ben spoke to Michelle Webster from the Alannah and Madeline Foundation which runs on online program for kids.

She says there’s an effective response all for the price of a cup of coffee.