HeyJaredBonafide with Luke Bona
He doesn't tell you what to think, but gives you something to think about! He’s a radio legend, punted not once, not twice, but three times from national airwaves. But Luke just doesn’t know when to quit and he’s not done yet.
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Truckie Tuesday: The NHVR Boss In Rod's Cab, And Fighting A Ticket (opens the original)
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Truckie Tuesday on its own, for anyone who just wants the truck stuff. NHVR chief executive Nicole Rosie spent a day in Rod Hannifey's truck out of Dubbo, and Rod had a list of about 32 questions waiting. Back on Truckie Tuesday she answers the one drivers ask most: is the regulator out to get them? She says education with drivers is up, and that the hard end of enforcement is for repeat, high-risk operators with years of breaches, some of them on their fourteenth letter. Not mudguards. Rod stil
FULL SHOW: Lobbyists, a DV crisis and the NHVR boss in Rod's truck (opens the original)
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Why can lobbyists with an orange pass walk the halls of Parliament House while you can't get past security? Greens Senator David Shoebridge calls the revolving door between Defence and the weapons industry obscene, and says he'd tear down the walls that keep the public out. Also in this full episode of Bonafide with Luke Bona: Nathan Cleary's horror injury, the first ever hip-drop send-off, and the Newcastle Knights' first grand final in 25 years. Daily Telegraph crime reporter Mark Morri on the
FULL SHOW: Should Prisoners Work On Victoria's Roads? Plus, Ai 'Annihilation ' (opens the original)
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Victoria wants minimum-security prisoners working on its roads. Kerry Tucker spent her sentence in the state's maximum-security women's prison untangling airline headphones and sanding chairs in a hot shed, and she tells Luke what work inside should actually be for: getting a woman ready to live next door to you when she gets out, not just filling in her day. She makes the case for education, explains why short sentences leave women serving long terms waiting years for programs, and says buildin
Truckie Tuesday: Roadside Rights, Potholes & Merging Rules (opens the original)
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Truck drivers, roadside stops and what an officer can actually make you do. Belinda Hughes from Hughes Law takes Truckie Tuesday through your rights on the side of the road, and along the way she puts a stop to something a lot of drivers have been told for years: that a curtain across the back of the cab makes the bunk a private area they cannot enter. It does not. She also explains what they can ask you, what you are actually required to say, why the body worn camera is running for the whole ho
FULL SHOW: Politics As Reality TV, Who Looks After Us & Rocky Horror (opens the original)
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Jessica Wang, a journalist who covers federal politics started out writing about reality television, and she says the two jobs are not that different. Protagonists, antagonists, a main plot, side plots, and producers steering the narrative they want you to follow. Luke, who watched reality contestants get handed radio shows with no talent, has been saying a version of this for twenty years.Plus: the Intergenerational Report says we will live longer and have fewer children, and Luke asks who is a
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