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Bonafide with Luke Bona is the unfiltered voice of everyday Australia. After decades in national radio, Luke brings his legendary no-BS approach to the podcast world. We tackle the real issues the mainstream media ignores: Australian politics, the cost of living, motoring, technology, culture, and the transport industry. From the realities of the road on Truckie Tuesday to wild true crime in the Man Cave, get the raw, unhinged truth you’ve been looking for. No censors. No apologies. Subscribe to join the conversation.
Luke Bona hosts Bonafide with Luke Bona, a news show with 146 episodes published.
This week's Truckie Tuesday: container logistics giant ACFS Port Logistics — the operator behind Coles, Kmart and Bunnings' freight — has collapsed into external administration owing the ATO an alleged $60 million, with
Every year, 49,000 Australians are reported missing — most are found within weeks. 2,800 are not. True-crime author and Australian Missing Persons Register founder Nicole Morris sits down with Luke Bona to tell the stori
She's home for one night between flights, and Senator Pauline Hanson isn't pulling any punches. Luke Bona sits down with the One Nation leader for a full solo interview, starting with yesterday's nationwide student walko
Local court, no jury, and a maximum sentence nowhere near what most people assume — even if every charge sticks. Criminal lawyer James Glissan joins Luke Bona to break down how Alan Jones's 22-charge hearing actually wor
(Replay) Truckie Tuesday goes on the road for the first time at this scale, broadcasting live from the Casino Truck Show, one of the biggest truck shows in the Southern Hemisphere. Luke sits down with Richmond Valley Cou
Kmart's $89 "Anko" AI glasses have sold out amid a growing privacy backlash, and this week Bonafide digs into it from two angles. Greens Senator David Shoebridge tells Luke why the glasses could be referred to the Attorn
Former NSW Minister for Police, Counter-Terrorism and Veterans Affairs David Elliott joins Luke Bona for a wide-ranging bonus sit-down. David finally addresses the rumour that he was having an affair — private investigat
Luke sits down with Shane Oliver, Chief Economist at AMP, to unpack the housing market slump, what negative equity actually means, and what the 5% deposit scheme has done for first home buyers. Then Australia's own true-
(replay) A new "fit to drive" duty lands on 1 August, and this Truckie Tuesday tackles the question every driver actually wants answered: if you ring your boss and say you're unfit, are you now on the hook for a medical
The Royal Commission into antisemitism is underway, and this week Alex Ryvchin, Co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, takes Luke through what it's uncovering, the history behind October 7 and the Second In
Joel Nancarrow from Hunter Shark Jaw Restoration gives his two cents on whether we're really safe from sharks, Ben Downie gives us the latest on the disastrous wildfires spreading throughout France, and David Shoebridge
This week on Truckie Tuesday, lawyer Belinda Hughes officially, sitting down with Luke Bona and Rod Hannifey to unpack a big regulatory shift landing on 1 August: the Heavy Vehicle National Law's new "unfit to drive" dut
NSW has already handed out $400 million in fines from mobile-phone and seatbelt cameras — and the state is now looking at fully AI-assisted enforcement. Drive.com.au's James Ward joins Luke to break down the real false-p
Former Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop joins Luke for a wide-ranging, on-the-record catch-up: her own take on Pauline Hanson and immigration, the "White Australia policy" debate that's resurfaced in the news, ranking
The last family-owned company still manufacturing UHF radios in Australia says they'd rather shut the factory doors than take the job overseas. On this Truckie Tuesday, Rod Hannifey sits down with Tony Crook, Group Marke
This week on Bonafide: Dr Karl joins Luke to bust the biggest myth in the electric-vs-petrol car debate, walks through why nuclear reactors have to be abandoned after about 50 years, and explains why coal ash is radioact
This week on Bonafide: educator and whistleblower Tracey Tully joins Luke for a frank, urgent conversation about violence in Australian schools — a friend's on-air account of being assaulted by a student and the PTSD tha
Before he was a household name, Derryn Hinch went to jail. In 1987 he was sentenced to 12 days for contempt of court — not for a crime against anyone, but for naming a paedophile priest the church kept moving from parish
This week's Truckie Tuesday: Luke Bona and co-host Rod Hannifey sit down with Belinda Hughes , principal of Hughes Law and the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator's former Director of Prosecutions, to go through the real ca
This week on Bonafide: Queensland MP Robbie Katter makes the case that Australia can't afford a $60 billion Brisbane Olympics, and weighs in on nuclear power and water infrastructure. Craig Willis, who worked alongside D
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candidate for the state senate in Washington's 4th legislative district · NHL Network & Sportlogiq
1 appearance on this show
James Ward
Principal Developer Advocate at AWS & Co-Author of Effect Oriented Programming · Amazon Web Services
1 appearance on this show
Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson's One Nation
1 appearance on this show
James Glissan
Glissan & Associates Lawyers
1 appearance on this show
Vaughan Macdonald
Richmond Valley Council
1 appearance on this show
Rod Hannifey
National Road Freighters Association
2 appearances on this show
Belinda Hughes
Hughes Law
3 appearances on this show
David Shoebridge
Greens
2 appearances on this show
Matt Canavan
National Party of Australia
1 appearance on this show
Tony Crook
GME
1 appearance on this show
Craig Willis
3AW
1 appearance on this show
the Dry July Foundation's CEO
Dry July Foundation
1 appearance on this show
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