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... or more to the point "absolutely immoral and unethical, not only have they thrown their own people under the bus in terms of the Lower Darling, we've had farmers had to walk off after generations of farming, they've done it to neighbouring states which is quite frankly un-Australian." Strong comments from the Victorian state MP in north western Victoria on the NSW Government's handling of wate...

The Excelsia College based chair of the Australian Christian Higher Education Alliance talks with regional listeners on FlowFM about the fantastic quality rankings for faith-based universities in the latest independent data and the opportunities regional students have to study at those institutions remotely or in their own region

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) latest report on farm debt shows it is tracking upwards with farmer confidence with positive growing conditions - but the data relates largely to a period before the Reserve Bank of Australia started increasing the cash rate and, thereby, interest rates to contain inflation. Read the report here: https://www.agricul...

The Senate resumed in late September after the memorial holiday for Queen Elizabeth II and began debating the Albanese Labor government's repeal of the mandatory cashless debit card in regional Australia including Ceduna in South Australia. FlowFM previously spoke with local MP Rowan Ramsey and minister Amanda Rishworth and caught up with shadow health minister Anne Ruston carrying debate in the S...

FlowFM caught up with the superintendent of Yorke-Mid North SA Police, Mark Syrus, who has volunteered for decades with Operation Flinders, about his time supporting at-risk young people and his observations over time on resilience, mobile phone use and exposure to social media. Mark says its tougher for young people in some respects in the modern era where it's hard to switch off from social pres...

Sporting clubs and regional businesses were targeted across a wide range of the Flow FM South Australian broadcast areas in recent months and SA Police believe they've apprehended the same two culprits for many of them ( https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/yorke-mid-north-local-service-area/men-charged-over-rural-break-ins-crime-series) - Flow speaks with the superintendent of the Y...

The Malinauskas Labor South Australian government attacked the National Party recently ( https://mcusercontent.com/a0bf08278627d68257ad822a8/files/6e2e8ca5-fccc-de6a-985d-e9f5ddd414c4/CLOSE_Irrelevant_National_Party_too_cute_by_half_on_Murray_Darling_Basin_Plan.pdf) and the former water minister and Nationals leader hit back claiming the Labor state government doesn't understand the Plan, also add...

After NASA's successful mission colliding the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) satellite into Dimorphos, itself a satellite of the asteroid Didymos on Tuesday morning (Australian time) we also discuss with regional Australian listeners on Flow FM future mining of asteroids, space junk like bugs on our global defence windscreen and how collaboration on space and global defence is going amid...

South Australia's peak grain producer body is seeking dialogue with the Country Fire Service about a different arrangement on new rules on harvesting their crops during fire danger periods and welcomes the very strong interest in SA government grants for farm firefighting unit upgrades - and more would be welcome

From promoting sustainability, provenance and traceability to the long-wearing and all-climate comfort 100% Australian wool provides, Wool Producers Australia CEO Jo Hall discusses with regional listeners on FlowFM the value of promoting Australian wool particularly in a less than favourable trading conditions in the global apparel retail market

Some federal Labor government MPs have inserted into recent debate about a parliamentary code of conduct the need to control racism, sexism and 'micro-aggressions' - after he was shouted down in the senate by Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe for 'racism' (which she later withdrew), the South Australian Liberal senator discusses with Flow listeners what future awaits us if parliament accommoda...

'Too little, too late' is the refrain from the NSW Farmers' Conservation and Resource Management Committee chair Louise Burge after the MDBA announced on Friday 23 September 2022 it would immediately increase Hume Dam releases https://www.mdba.gov.au/news-media-events/newsroom/media-centre/releases-hume-dam-increase-create-more-airspace - a day after the QEII Memorial Day call from the farming ass...

It hasn't been the greatest week of all for Aussie wool growers but perhaps Geelong Cats AFL fans will have something to smile about on Saturday, as dyed in the wool blue-and-white fan Andrew Partridge is always on the ball and searching for light at home and far away for Aussie sheep farmers

Sean from Pro Farmer Australia ( www.profarmergrain.com.au ) updates FlowFM listeners for Friday's Country Viewpoint program on the latest developments for grain and canola growers in domestic and international markets

Great prices for producers in southern New South Wales and continued vigilance over biosecurity threats like Foot and Mouth Disease in Indonesia feature in Friday's Country Viewpoint interview on FlowFM with Thomas Elder Markets livestock analyst Matt Dalgleish

The Malinauskas Labor government reinstated a farm firefighting unit grant program with the first funding round seeing around 1,200 applications and over 260 farmers provided funding to assist with regional South Australian future firefighting response capacity

Rising interest rates in an attempt to contain inflation in Australia are potentially hitting retailers at a time when consumer demand is what is keeping them afloat, the National Retailers Association of Australia says as the first Tuesday of October RBA board meeting to further change the cash rate looms large

With regional Australia feeding commodities strongly into the Chinese economy, a recent projection from ratings agency S&P Global that China would not be returning soon to strong growth levels, but engaging in structural reform, had listeners intent on learning what factors might be driving that change and what it could mean for global and, indeed, Australian primary producers

... and outlines the Nature Based Tourism grants program on offer until mid-October for new tourism offerings in South Australia's national parks and natural assets

Derryn Hinch's Justice Party western Victorian MLC Stuart Grimley says his party has been calling for some time for the state government to listen to regional communities on strategies to alleviate the housing affordability challenges driven by a significant population shift into regional Victoria, and says the 4 October Creswick summit announced on Tuesday 20 September 2022 by the state governmen...

As farmers turn to automation and bigger machinery, Ramsey Bros' group wholegoods executive encourages farmers to talk with their dealer about their future plans amid long ordering timelines for some machinery.

The Nationals' shadow assistant minister for regional development speaks with FlowFM listeners about whether her electorate of Mallee in north-western Victoria might share in the 2032 RAI target of 500,000 additional Australians living in regional areas, and the investment regional Australia needs to keep growing

Another downward priced market for wool producers in Australia with the market affected by global macro-economic factors and strong domestic supply.

Bendigo-based senior agricultural analyst at Rural Bank, Michael Curtis discusses the latest movements on Meat and Livestock Australia's Eastern Young Cattle Indicator (EYCI) and National Trade Lamb Indicator

The weekly market wrap on Flow this week with Thomas Elder Markets' Andrew Whitelaw discusses recent developments surrounding both output and input prices for cropping producers affected by Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine and related energy and other blockades, but also the state of Australia's freight and port systems after a recent ACCC report questioning the regulation level in place