Foodbank, Australia’s largest food relief organisation recently reported “unprecedented” demand for food relief services, with expectations that this trend will continue. With rising cost of living, interest rate hikes, and rental stress, Australian households are feeling the impacts, and food is often an essential item people do without.
Loaves and Fishes is a non-for-profit charity organisation dedicated to caring for those less fortunate in the greater Brisbane area. the organisation feeds over 3000 people weekly across their services. They aim to continue to be able to provide emergency relief for those affected by the current floods, but face challenges due to the rising cost of groceries and essentials.
Loaves and Fishes are one of the 201 organisation that have been given a CommBank community grant of $10,000.
4ZZZ Journalist Harry Kuzewicz spoke to CEO, Scott Bourke about this grant and the cost of living pressures on charities.

With storm season upon us, itʻs a good time to review flash flooding safety tips - whether at home or in the car.

Do you know how to protect yourself from hail or how to place sandbags? How do you manage an unexpected flood, what precautions can you take, where do you get sandbags and how do you place and fill them?

4ZZZʻs Eliot Rifkin had a discussion with State Emergency Services (SES) Director Brian Cox about safety precautions as well as yer round SES free training.

When most of us think of poison, we think of things like arsenic, however did you realise that some common human foods can be poison to our pets?

4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin and Toni Pankaluic chatted with Kasra Ahmadi, a Poisons Specialist Pharmacist, as well as one of the Founding Directors of the Australian Animal Poisons Centre.

We usually only hear of emission reductions as the way to address rebalancing our atmosphere…

However, even if we stop emitting carbon dioxide now, the earth’s temperature will still increase. Drawing down the atmosphere’s oversupply of carbon by regenerating our soils replenishes our carbon-poor soils.

Carbon is essential for life and productive soils requires carbon. Over the last century our farming practices have been reducing the carbon stored in our soil - degrading it. More and more farmers are giving regenerative farming a go.

The Holidays are upon us, and that means chocolate to most people - however do you know the effect chocolate has on our pets? As well as the effect of some other common human foods that are no-nos for pets?

4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin spoke with Professor Rachel Allavena the Deputy Head of UQ's School of Veterinary Science.

Upper Tingalpa Creekcare is a new, innovative community water quality program designed for catchment landholders.

Who and what is involved in this new project? And what will it deliver for local residents and the environment?

In search of these questions and more, 4ZZZ's Toni Pankaluic spoke with Wayne Cameron Catchment Manager of the Bulimba Creek Catchment Coordinating Committee (B4C) who is involved in the project.

Have you noticed a disappearance of Christmas Beetles over the years? These beautifully coloured beetles used to be all over our verandah lights… harkening the start of summer.

4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin spoke with Tanya Latty from Invertebrates Australia to chat about their christmas beetle citizen science project and how you can get involved.

Cannabis use has become increasingly common in Australia for medical purposes. However, do you know how Cannabis affects driving performance or how governments are currently dealing with it both domestically and internationally?

4ZZZ's Toni Pankaluic and Eliot Rifkin chatted with Dr Thomas Arkell a Research Fellow from Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Human Psychopharmacology about Cannabis and Driving.

Many of us Queenslanders are lucky to have koalas living amongst us.

To keep our koalas thriving and safe…
we take precautions driving slow in ʻkoala-signedʻ road areas, keeping our dogs and koalas apart and protecting mature 40-year old plus trees which koalas call home.

Many of us are also aware that our koala populations are suffering from general diseases like chlamydia.
What are the implications for them and what is being done to battle koala chlamydia?

4ZZZ's Eliot Rifkin and Toni Pankaluic chatted about current research in koala chlamydia vaccines with Kenneth Beagley a Professor of Immunology from QUTʻs School of Immunology

It’s Movember and November is Prostate Cancer Month so we have a Discussion on Prostate Cancer with… Dr Jenni Gunter - Senior Research Associate of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre Queensland, Dr Alex Ngoo - Urologist in-training and Prostate Cancer Research Clinician, Joseph Box - Owner of ʻBrew on Brunswickʻ, and our own, Eliot Rifkin of 4ZZZ's Thursday Brisbane Line - a recent victor of Stage 4 - Prostate Cancer.