Bonafide with Luke Bona

Tracy Tully spent a career in the roughest schools in Australia, and she taught on both sides of 1995, the year corporal punishment ended in Queensland state schools. She caned children. The ones she caned still stop her in the street. Ask her whether it should come back and the answer is not the one you expect.This one is a Man Cave, so Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald get there sideways. It starts with dumb phones, a 20 cent yo-yo now worth 700 dollars, and Adam's theory that everyone is just trying to buy their youth back. It lands on what happens to boys who grow up without a man in the house who gets them. Adam's answer is one teacher, a jiu jitsu coach, and week on week off with a mother he never stopped getting along with. Tracy's answer is the story at the centre of this episode.First day at a school out west, brief of two words: fix it. By five o'clock she had expelled the six worst boys in the school, and by five o'clock she had a plan for them. Her family ran shearing teams. She asked for six men she could absolutely trust. The boys went into the sheds for six weeks with no phone, no alcohol and no drugs, running at dawn, learning how to fix a tap, sitting around a campfire at night having the conversations nobody had ever had with them. Every parent signed. Every boy stayed at school. She gave each of them a shearer's singlet and they wore it into town like a uniform. Most of them are still in the game.Also in this one: Book Week costume bans, school uniforms as the great leveller, the student who was allowed to identify as a cat and drink milk from a saucer while Adam's son got pinged for wearing a hoodie, Adam's own father walking into a police station, and a 1965 Humphrey B. Bear that is about to go in the post.Guests: Tracy Tully, author of FEARless Buckle UP Build ResilienceHeads up: this episode discusses the corporal punishment of children, a ten-year-old being assaulted, a father striking his teenage son, threats made against a family, and two deaths. It contains strong language.Support: Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800 (24/7) - Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7)00:00 Cold Open: "It Didn't Damage Them Too Much"00:11 Welcome Back To The Man Cave00:33 Why Everyone Is Buying Dumb Phones Again01:48 The 20 Cent Yo-Yo Now Worth 700 Bucks02:39 Tracy Tully Joins Us04:05 The Kids Growing Up With No Male Role Model05:28 Adam On Raising Wonder Boy Week On, Week Off06:26 The One Teacher Who Actually Gets You07:27 Army Brats And Fathers Who Did Not Bend10:03 The Creek Bed, The Cliff And The Sister Who Cried10:45 Wonder Boy Found The Bible11:57 Two Years In The Army, A Lifetime Of Hospital Corners14:16 Single Sex, Coed Or Private: Does It Matter?16:32 What Girls Did To The Toughest Boys In School18:17 "Fix It, Tracy": Day One At A School Out West21:00 Six Boys Gone Before Five O'Clock21:45 "I Need Six Mentors"23:21 Six Weeks, No Phones, No Drugs, Up At Dawn25:03 The Singlet That Became Their Identity26:03 The Coach Who Said The One Thing That Landed28:22 The Flood, The Department And The Cost To Her Family33:36 Book Week Bans And Harry Potter35:20 Uniforms: The Great Leveller36:35 A Tail Is Fine, A Hoodie Is Not38:17 "I Identify As My Yellow Wheelie Bin"40:17 Bring Back The Cane? Then Yes, Now No42:10 The Night Adam's Father Walked Into The Police Station43:57 The Fisher-Price Clock She Wishes She Kept45:37 A 1965 Humphrey B. Bear47:59 What Adam Has Coming Up🫶 Join The Bonafide FamilyGet Your Bonafide Merch here: https://bonafidepod.com/en-audFollow Me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LukeBonaThatRadioGuy/Catch Up On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lukey.bona/Subscribe to us on YouTube to stay updated with LIVE SHOWS:🎙️ Get InvolvedLeave us a digital voicemail here: https://www.speakpipe.com/BonafideCall the Bonafide Hotline to leave a voicemail: (02) 9128 9311Want to be a guest or suggest a topic? Reach out at: community@bonafidepod.com

Lachlan is a young truck driver. He booked his heavy vehicle licence upgrade, paid his fees, turned up at the testing centre, and was sent home. The reason he was given: the safety cameras inside his employer's truck can't be deactivated, and tampering with them is a sackable offence. Two other drivers from the same company had already tested in the same truck without an issue. Rod Hannifey and Luke Bona work through what he should do next, and it opens onto the question the industry hasn't answered. A truck is a workplace, but it's also a bedroom. So who gets to watch, and who keeps what they see?

Plus: the NHVR and Transport Certification Australia have built a new Generation 2.0 electronic work diary framework, with the specification due out within weeks, and Hughes Law's Belinda Hughes reads what the fact sheet doesn't say about where all that fatigue data is headed. Sham contracting is costing the country billions in lost tax revenue and driving decent operators out of business. NHVR chief executive Nicole Rosie is flying to Dubbo to spend a full day in Rod's truck. Senator Bridget McKenzie is confirmed for a coming episode. There's a new segment where you can put a legal question straight to Belinda. And Where's Rodney is finally solved, at Wyaga Creek on the Gore Highway.

Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association) · Belinda Hughes (Principal, Hughes Law)

(00:00) Cold Open: "Why Is Your Hat Over The Camera?"
(01:16) Where's Rodney: Last Week's Clues
(02:06) Gen 2.0 Electronic Work Diaries Land In Weeks
(03:35) Sham Contracting And The Race To The Bottom
(08:37) Listener Mail: Refused A Licence Test Over In-Cab Cameras
(11:56) Asleep In The Bunk, Phoned About A Hat
(14:10) Your Truck Is Your Home
(16:19) Hughes Law: Where Your Fatigue Data Goes Next
(19:54) Revenue Or Road Safety?
(21:07) NHVR Boss Nicole Rosie Rides With Rod
(23:52) New Segment: Ask The Legal Eagle
(25:17) Rod's Rant On The Blitz Numbers
(27:03) Where's Rodney: The Answer
(29:27) Sign-Off

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Michael Hope has been around AFL his whole life, he knows Isaac Heeney and he knows his family, and he says the Sydney Swans now have a problem that suspending five players does not fix. On this Man Cave he tells Luke Bona and Adam MacDonald what he would do if he were on that board: trade all five at the end of the season, and bring in a testing regime the club runs itself. Hope trained as a pharmacist before he was a winemaker, and the detail he brings to what a drug test can and cannot find is the part of this conversation nobody else is having.

Plus: why an AFL club cannot simply tear up a contract the way an NRL club can, what Richmond were thinking on their Mad Monday, the lawyers already circling with civil claims, and the moment Adam pulls out a set of 1930s polio calipers and a straitjacket.

UPDATE, correcting what we said on air: this episode was recorded in late August. Since then, Victoria Police confirmed on 2 September that Sexual Crimes Squad detectives interviewed four men in relation to the Pullman Hotel allegations. Riley Bice, who the club also stood down, is not being investigated over the sexual assault allegations. No arrests have been made and no charges have been laid against anyone. Police expect to provide a further update in around eight weeks.

Everything discussed here is an allegation. Nobody has been charged.

Michael Hope's view of the AFL's illicit drugs policy is his own. For what the policy actually says, the AFL Players' Association publishes it directly.

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00:00 Cold Open: They've Now Got A Serious Problem
00:12 Welcome To The Man Cave
00:51 Why We Called Michael Hope
01:17 The Allegations We Are Leaving To The Police
03:54 Inside The AFL Bubble
05:22 The Five Players Stood Down
06:57 Boys Will Be Boys, And Where It Stops
08:20 The Pullman Five, And Why They Have To Go
10:39 The CEO Who Would Not Answer The Drug Question
11:47 What A Club Should Do Instead
12:38 Hair Testing: 10 To 90 Days
14:52 Civil Claims, Lawyers And The Mud That Sticks
17:44 The Isaac Heeney Nobody Talks About
21:33 Jai Arrow's 100th Game
23:54 What's In Adam's Hands: Calipers, A Straitjacket And A Gimp Mask

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This week's Truckie Tuesday: a new independently-verified report finds heavy-vehicle bridge strikes are costing the Australian economy $101 million a year — 1,220 incidents in the last 12 months, up 38% since 2018. Rod Hannifey and Luke Bona dig into why, including Rod's own story about a bridge clearance sign that was never updated after the road underneath it was resurfaced.

Plus: copper thieves targeting EV chargers and streetlights around the country, a new industry survey seeking every transport worker's voice on mental health, Rod's take on whether the NHVR's fatigue-blitz statistics tell the full story, a visit from NSW Minister Jenny Aitchison, Senator Bridget McKenzie confirmed for a coming episode, an update on the Great Western Highway works, a heartfelt tribute to trucking legend Toots Holzheimer, and a Legal Win of the Week from Hughes Law's Belinda Hughes.

Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association) · Belinda Hughes (Principal, Hughes Law)

(00:00) Cold Open & Where's Rodney
(01:30) Feedback Of The Week: The Truck Chain Mystery
(06:45) Mobile Blackspots On The Highway
(08:16) Copper Thieves Target EV Chargers
(13:00) NatRoad Connect 26 & Industry Structure
(15:01) NSW Minister Jenny Aitchison Visits Dubbo
(16:37) Great Western Highway Works & Bathurst 1000
(21:33) Tribute: Toots Holzheimer
(24:07) Mental Health Survey & The Fatigue Blitz Debate
(29:13) $101 Million A Year In Bridge Strikes
(32:01) Hughes Law: Two Wins Of The Week
(36:01) Where's Rodney? Plus Rod's Rant
(39:35) Sign-Off

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Three heavy-vehicle licence assessors have been pulled from the NSW scheme and referred to police after a joint Transport for NSW/NHVR crackdown across Tweed Heads and Lismore. Rod Hannifey and Luke Bona ask what it means for every driver those assessors trained — and a listener writes in with an anonymous, unverified account of "brown paper bag" backhanders allegedly pushing safe local trucking contracts to cheaper, non-local operators.

Plus: a $100 million funding boost for the Great Western Highway's Blue Mountains rebuild, a $10,000 free training pathway launching for Cairns jobseekers, the NHVR's latest fatigue blitz results (6,100+ heavy vehicles checked, non-compliance on the rise), a Legal Win of the Week from Hughes Law's Belinda Hughes, and Rod's rant on logbook fines that treat honest paperwork mistakes as deceit.

Guests: Rod Hannifey (Truckie Tuesday co-host, National Road Freighters Association) · Belinda Hughes (Principal, Hughes Law)

(00:00) Cold Open & Intro
(01:04) $10,000 Free Training For Cairns Jobseekers
(03:30) $100M For The Great Western Highway
(06:27) NHVR Fatigue Blitz Results
(09:31) 3 Licence Assessors Referred To Police
(12:07) A Listener's Backhander Warning
(17:09) Hughes Law: Win Of The Week
(20:59) Rod's Rant: Weighbridge And Logbook Fines
(24:06) Sign-Off

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