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Dr Webster takes aim at the Andrews Victorian government for declining to include the Mallee in a region eligible for farm water saving projects, and talks about the importance of road safety including a road safety analogy for the mandatory vaccination / vaccine passports debate.

Basin water storages are up to almost overflowing, but some irrigators' general security allocations aren't increasing - why? Claire works through some of the complex reasons, and the tangle of NSW 'gold standard' water metering obligations, in this interview with Rikki on Flow

Nat Traeger speaks with Rikki on Flow about the developing story of a potential South Australian first offshore wind farm and the impacts it could have on the local community, economy, energy grid and environment

On RUOK? Day, the Liberal Democrat MP talks about supporting mental health and also after a struggle to get Victoria's parliament to sit again, talks about the return of transparency with parliamentary sittings

Former senator Simms also describes the emergency housing situation in Port Lincoln as so desperate, tents are being turned to as housing options

The NSW Government announced it would table a bill to outlaw religious discrimination, which ACL welcomed but highlighted the work of One Nation MLC Mark Latham on the same topic. Dan Flynn also talks about the stalled federal religious freedom reforms, and the imminent 'The Truth of It' appearance of ACL Managing Director Martyn Iles in Adelaide

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With a higher than expected rainfall event in the Hume catchment over the 4-5 September 2021 weekend, the Basin Authority advised it would release more water into the Murray River. The Authority advises potentially affected landholders to maintain a watch on potential flood advisory messaging from the Bureau of Meteorology, State Emergency Service and WaterNSW

Cr Brown also talks about the infrastructure requirements to attract food and beverage manufacturers to rural towns and councils in the Rural Councils Victoria membership

The Quambatook Victoria grower spoke with Flow about the need for state and federal agriculture ministers to get on with getting farm workers in across the nation, with Queensland arguably already missing out in the grains industry - and the risk delay may pose to farm safety if farmers are left with no choice but to keep working around the clock without the labour.

FlowFM's neighbour at Roseworthy, AGT, paid a visit in the form of Haydn Kuchel to talk about the announcements this week that AGT had won the tender to commercially develop previously publicly developed durum wheat germplasm in Australia - and shared the exciting news about the new Calibre variety with seed demand already running hot

Rikki chats on the Morning Show with the Victorian senator about the movement of Australians from cities to regions and how, among other things, migration and telecommunications can capitalise on that movement and healthy years on the land

A new initiative to lure food and beverage manufacturing businesses to rural towns in regional Victoria is underway, trying to make investigating and deciding whether to relocate as easy as possible

NSW MLC Rev. Fred Nile says whilst he welcomes the federal government Saturday 28 August announcement of a COVID-19 indemnity scheme for employers if workers suffer adverse impacts from vaccination, it is a copy of his NSW Bill to achieve the same result and he will press on with his bill at the state level

On Saturday 28 August federal health minister Greg Hunt announced a new scheme sought by the peak employer group to clarify legal indemnity should someone vaccinated via a workplace program suffer adverse health impacts. The AiGroup had sought these changes and Tony Melville talks on Flow what it will mean in the workplace.

Mr McBride also talks about advocacy for truck drivers and South-East SA residents negatively impacted by COVID-19 restrictions that did not seem to adequately factor the challenges regional residents face

Immediate past president of the Local Government Association of South Australia, and chair of the Eyre Peninsula LGA, mayor Telfer talks with Flow about the challenges Councils face in funding their infrastructure among record regional tourism demand

From SA's sudden backflip (for now) on imposing mandatory vaccination on Vic/SA border bubble community members to enter SA, to trucks turned around to get a negative COVID-19 test before entering the state - cross-border chaos has kept local MPs busy

Dr Webster talks about a joint letter between Victorian and SA border state and federal MPs on having a negative COVID-19 test result accepted in either state, the impact on community sport from lockdowns, emerging from lockdown to normality - and the benefits the new Agriculture Visa could bring if the Andrews government allows more workers into Victoria

Steve Bignell speaks with Flow in the week that both indicators for sheep and beef prices in eastern Australia hit record highs

Beef prices are going bananas in Australia and the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator continues to defy all analyst expectations - Angus Gidley-Baird talks with Rikki on the Flow Morning Show about the drivers for the price rise, and also the latest on Argentinian beef export restrictions

After a Tesla battery bank fire at Moorabool, Victoria, and a recent Energy Security Board report, Rikki on the Flow Morning Show reviews the current Australian energy mix and whether we're ready to jump to 100% renewable generation

BCG’s Researcher Brooke Bennett has received funding from the Yitpi Foundation to investigate the suitability of new, long coleoptile wheat varieties in farming systems in southern Australia.

Rikki on the Morning Show picks up the reactions from commodity groups and peak bodies to the ag visa and the possible challenges state and federal agriculture ministers face before the new 'ag visa' becomes a success