Shows / Bonafide with Luke Bona
Bonafide with Luke Bona
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…
Episodes
- Bonafide with Luke Bona
FULL SHOW: How did fire ants get into Sydney? Plus Israel votes and the Man Cave
Fire ants have turned up at a freight terminal in Sydney, and former agriculture minister David Littleproud says if they get into your backyard, you won't be…
Bonafide with Luke BonaVictoria Votes: Is Labor Losing, Or Is The Coalition Winning?
If you heard our full episode on 27 October, you have already had this one. This is Luke's chat with Terry Barnes on its own, for anyone who just wants Terry…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Rod's Case Against Automatic Gearboxes, And Why Your Phone Can Be Confiscated On Compliance Mode
If you heard Tuesday's full episode, you have already had this one. This is the Truckie Tuesday on its own, for anyone who just wants the truck stuff. Rod…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Is premium petrol worth it? Plus Terry Barnes on Victoria's election
Is premium petrol worth the extra at the bowser, or is it all in your head? James Ward from Drive sorts out octane, cleaning additives and E10, and tells the…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Perfect Match's Greg Evans, and Trevor Long's AI assistant Darren
Greg Evans, the host of Perfect Match, tells Luke how Reg Grundy's dating show let Channel Ten charge prime-time rates at 5:30, and about the contestant who…
Bonafide with Luke BonaMan Cave: An Aviation Scientist Takes On Our Moon Landing Doubter
If you heard our full episode on 9 October, you have already had this one. This is the Man Cave with Dr Graham Wild on its own, for anyone who just wants the…
Bonafide with Luke BonaHow the Jim's Mowing founder built it from a lawn round and a debt
If you heard our full episode on 9 October, you have already had this one. This is Luke's chat with Jim Penman on its own, for anyone who just wants Jim. When…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: No Fuel, No Shower? And Belinda's Tunnel Appeal
If you heard Tuesday's full episode, you have already had this one. This is the Truckie Tuesday on its own, for anyone who just wants the truck stuff. A driver…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Robbie Katter on a seventh state, and Trump's five-day press secretary
Robbie Katter, the Member for Traeger and leader of Katter's Australian Party, tells Luke why he and his dad Bob want North Queensland to become Australia's…
Bonafide with Luke BonaInside NSW jails with Nick: The cracked perspex and the threat to his family
If you heard our full episode on 2 October, you have already had this one. This is Luke's chat with Nick on its own, for anyone who just wants the prison…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Your first day in prison, with Rob McKnight and David Littleproud
Our first live show. Nick, a former NSW prison officer, comes back for part two and takes Luke through a first-timer's day in prison, from the strip search to…
Bonafide with Luke BonaMan Cave: Should the shark that attacks be killed? Adam and a shark fisherman clash
Shark fisherman Joel Nancarrow says the great white that killed a swimmer at Sorrento Beach in Perth should have been hunted down. Adam McDonald's view is that…
Bonafide with Luke BonaShane Oliver on government spending, the $1 trillion debt and your super
If you heard our full episode on 2 October, you have already had this one. This is Luke's chat with Shane Oliver on its own, for anyone who just wants the…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Fined $800 After Reporting Her Own Mistake, And Your Logbook Questions
If you heard Tuesday's full episode, you have already had this one. This is the Truckie Tuesday on its own, for anyone who just wants the truck stuff. Kylie…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Should the government own 200 Coles and Woolies stores?
David Shoebridge, in his first chat with Luke as Greens leader, makes the case for forcing the sale of 200 Coles and Woolworths stores and running about 600…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: A Client Grounded For 12 Weeks, And Rod's Blind Spot Warning
If you heard the full episode on Tuesday 6 October, you have already had this one. This is the Truckie Tuesday on its own, for anyone who just wants the truck…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Why Jim Penman says his company can't be sold, and Bathurst with Mark Beretta
Jim Penman tells Luke how a rival knocked him back when he asked to join, why he charges franchisees $700 for a contract when he says $5,000 is normal, and…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Is your car spying on you? And what is disorganised crime?
Is your car listening to you? James Ward from Drive says some cars do send voice and driving data back to the maker, and explains why no government cares about…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: A prison officer's 15 years inside, Shane Oliver on rates and the shark cull fight
Nick rang Luke on 2GB after a chat about second chances, and he had 15 years of stories. As a NSW prison officer at Lithgow and at the women's jail at Emu…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: The NHVR Boss In Rod's Cab, And Fighting A Ticket
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Lobbyists, a DV crisis and the NHVR boss in Rod's truck
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Should Prisoners Work On Victoria's Roads? Plus, Ai 'Annihilation '
Victoria wants minimum-security prisoners working on its roads. Kerry Tucker spent her sentence in the state's maximum-security women's prison untangling…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Roadside Rights, Potholes & Merging Rules
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaFULL SHOW: Politics As Reality TV, Who Looks After Us & Rocky Horror
Jessica Wang, a journalist who covers federal politics started out writing about reality television, and she says the two jobs are not that different…
Bonafide with Luke BonaWould You Fly With No Pilot? Runway Scares, Peter Brock, And Spotting A Fake Birkin
What's real, what's fake, and who gets to decide? The ATSB has opened six investigations into runway and taxiing incidents at Sydney Airport since late July…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: The 5% Problem, Fleets At Auction & Fatigue (Solo-Cut)
Rod Hannifey has been doing the numbers. He reckons 80 to 85 per cent of Australian truck drivers do everything right, another 10 to 15 per cent get pushed too…
Bonafide with Luke BonaLittleproud Hits Back At Barnaby Joyce, Plus Dr Karl On Aircrew Cancer And Scotty Phillips On Super
Barnaby Joyce says he was told to leave the Nationals, not once but a number of times. David Littleproud says it never happened. "He's never been asked to…
Bonafide with Luke BonaWhat Actually Fixed The Worst Boys In Her School? | Man Cave
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Refused A Licence Test Over An In-Cab Camera...
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaShould The Swans Cut All Five Loose? | Man Cave Special
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaWhy Do Trucks Keep Hitting Bridges? Plus, Bridge Strikes & Tanker Chains
This week's Truckie Tuesday: a new independently-verified report finds heavy-vehicle bridge strikes are costing the Australian economy $101 million a year —…
Bonafide with Luke BonaBrown Paper Bags Backhanders & 3 Truck Licence Assessors Referred To Police
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaThe Last Australian Showman, The Sydney Swans Scandal & Penguins vs. Bird Flu
He's the last touring boxing-tent showman left in the world, and 74 years old hasn't slowed him down. Outback legend Fred Brophy joins Luke Bona and vice…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Tax, Close Calls, & Australia's Biggest Trucking Collapse?
This week's Truckie Tuesday: container logistics giant ACFS Port Logistics — the operator behind Coles, Kmart and Bunnings' freight — has collapsed into…
Bonafide with Luke Bona2,800 Missing Australians, A Cambridge Tragedy & NSW's New Gun Laws
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaPauline Hanson on Protests, Truckies, & Beetroot on Brugers
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaAlan Jones's 5-Year Sentencing Shock, Tim Costello vs. Gambling, and Melon Gate
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Live From The Casino Truck Show, Meet Trucking With CJ
(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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaShould AI Glasses Be Banned? Plus, Matt Canavan & ACFS Collapses
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaDavid Elliott: Affair Rumours, ICAC, & The Alan Jones Trial
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaA Bizarre Melbourne Murder, the Housing Slump & a Big Man Cave Close
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: The New "Fit To Drive" Duty & A $170k Fine Fight
(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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaConfronted At The Bondi Massacre Site, & What Working With Alan Jones Was REALLY Like — Plus a Live Truckie Tuesday from the Casino Truck Show"
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaWhy No Beach Is Safe This Summer & The Question Albo Couldn't Answer, Answered
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: Could A Sore Toe Really Get You Pulled Off The Road?
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…
Bonafide with Luke Bona$400M In AI Traffic Camera Fines - Plus Tracy Tully Part 2, & Chopper Read In Casino?
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…
- Bonafide with Luke Bona
A Prison Ozempic Scandal, and Bronwyn Bishop On Australia's First Political Prisoner
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: The Family That Would Rather Shut Down Than Build UHF Radios Overseas
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaDr Karl On The Electric Car Fire Myth, Plus Iran, UK Politics and Truckie Tuesday
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTracey Tully on School Safety, Remembering Sam Neill, and Nick McKim on Supermarket Surveillance
This week on Bonafide: educator and whistleblower Tracey Tully joins Luke for a frank, urgent conversation about violence in Australian schools — a friend's…
Bonafide with Luke BonaDerryn Hinch Spent 12 Days in Jail Rather Than Stay Silent
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: A $200,000 Fine For Paperwork, Belinda Hughes On Truckies' Unfair Tickets
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaRemembering Derryn Hinch, Robbie Katter on the $60B Olympics, & Bogus Backlash
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…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTobacco Wars, Nuclear Power & a Colonel's Warning on National Security
A retired Army Colonel and former federal MP says Australia's illegal tobacco trade is tangled up with the same transnational crime networks that help fund…
Bonafide with Luke BonaA Liberal Civil War, ASIO's Press-Freedom Row & Fog Lines
Former NSW Police and Counter-Terrorism Minister David Elliott joins Luke to explain why he's calling for federal opposition leader Angus Taylor to resign —…
Bonafide with Luke BonaAn Undercover MP, a Teen Nuclear Advocate & the Hume Highway Fireball
Federal MP Pat Conaghan joins the Man Cave for a story he's rarely told this fully — years undercover in a drug-enforcement unit, and the international…
Bonafide with Luke BonaHanson on Lazy Workers, $34M Shark Drones & Kate Seselja's Pokies Nightmare
Pauline Hanson reckons you can't sack a lazy worker anymore — and that paid parental leave is sending small businesses to the wall. Luke Bona takes those…
Bonafide with Luke BonaTruckie Tuesday: The Linfox Family Feud, Sham Contracting Crackdowns, & Why Trucks Keep Hitting Bridges
This week on Truckie Tuesday, Luke connects with big rig driver Rod Hannifey from Mackay to unpack the latest news, controversies, and regulations rocking the…
Bonafide with Luke BonaPauline Hanson On The Real Reason Karl Stefanovic Was Dropped By Channel 9
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson joins Luke Bona on the Bona Fide podcast to break down the massive media storm surrounding Karl Stefanovic’s sudden…
Bonafide with Luke Bona17-Year-Old Farmer Speaks Out, MLM Cults & Media Censorship
Karl Stefanovic’s departure, MLM pyramid schemes exposed, and a 17-year-old farmer fighting for the future of Aussie agriculture - we're breaking it all down…