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Angus discusses the upward movement on the Meat and Livestock Australia indicators on livestock sales and shares some encouraging news on Chinese sheepmeat demand

A Murray Darling Basin Authority update provided a poor scorecard for New South Wales' efforts in meeting its Murray-Darling Basin Plan obligations, as the SA Water Minister questions other Basin states' commitment to deliver 450 gigalitres of water over the border for South Australia's riverine environment and communities

Dr Mark Ho is a Nuclear Engineer and Reactor Heat Transfer Specialist working at the Lucas Heights reactor near Sydney and the vice president of the Australian Nuclear Association advocating a nuclear technology future for Australia. He discusses with Flow listeners the safety of nuclear technology and emerging reactor technology including small modular reactors

The incoming Albanese Labor government has set an October federal budget date, recasting the national government's books after the May election which means 2 budgets in one financial year - what will be the fate of farmers' diesel fuel tax rebate, as the fuel excise pause also disappears in September?

The federal agriculture minister and Queensland senator Murray Watt spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra on Wednesday 9 August 2022 about a national biosecurity plan and the former agriculture minister, now National Party leader, David Littleproud MP, says the Coalition government had put a lot of the legwork into that strategy. In this interview the shadow minister for agriculture talks a...

Late in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, UK the Liberal-National Coalition declared that if it wins the November 2022 election it would add Shepparton as a fifth host city for the first-ever regionally hosted Commonwealth Games in 2026. Flow caught up with the first-term independent MP for Mildura Ali Cupper about why Mildura missed out on hosting rights, discussing October's Kings of Leon co...

Rabobank's grains and oilseeds analyst Dennis Voznesenski reviews the latest global and Australian market movements and shares his thoughts on where wool might be heading after the trading recess ends in early August, into 2023 - and shares that he'll be at the Eyre Peninsula Field Days at Cleve in August 2022

From July 2023 Elders will invest $25 million establishing a new automated facility close to the highway for regional Victorian farmers

A livestock market jitter in recent weeks doesn't dent the positives of a longer-term higher price trend for cattle and sheep producers in Australia as Meat and Livestock Australia's senior market information analyst Ripley Atkinson breaks down the latest action for Flow listeners

First home buyers are finding it challenging to save to buy a home, but there are options out there, Canstar's Effie Zahos discusses with Flow listeners as we wade into the shifting sands of economist expectations of where, now, the Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate might go - potentially very different to what was previously being said about 2024. NOTE: This conversation is for information purp...

Spending initiatives in the southern New South Wales electorate of Albury and opportunities for more are discussed with the local Liberal Party MP Justin Clancy

The member for Flinders representing the Eyre Peninsula and West Coast also promotes the imminent Eyre Peninsula Field Days as community events return to the calendar after restrictions imposed in recent years in the name of COVID-19

The member for Frome visits the Flow broadcast centre in Roseworthy, SA - within her own electorate - to discuss the foot and mouth disease alarm in Australia with the disease at our doorstep in Bali and Indonesia, and the challenge of attracting and retaining doctors and other health professionals in regional areas, with a case study of the Gumeracha push to re-open their emergency department in...

The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy released research on Wednesday highlighting that there's strong South Australian community sentiment in the regions and metropolitan area to start a mature conversation about nuclear energy and what it might offer for the state and nation, be it for energy security or decarbonising Australian energy generation

... and talks up the Lockhart Show in September in his local electorate, a town among others that benefited from federal funding spent in the local community prior to the incoming Albanese government freezing round 6 of the Building Better Regions Fund after an audit report's findings on Thursday about how grants were being determined

Since 2016 Victorians convicted of murder could not be released on parole if they have not disclosed the location of the remains of their victim/s - the Derryn Hinch's Justice Party MP for Northern Victoria says this still empowers a murderer to inflict hardship on victims' families and wants them to remain beyond their court-imposed term in jail, potentially for life, if they do not disclose the...

As the Albanese government begins a review into the Reserve Bank of Australia that Prof Hicks says is appropriate, the Charles Sturt University economics professor at Bathurst, NSW says previous comments from the RBA about rate rises during 2022 or 2023 need to be viewed against the context of unforeseen events in Europe, the re-opening of Australia's borders and severe weather events in Australia...

... as livestock producers pause their enthusiasm for purchasing stock amid speculation about the risk level on Foot and Mouth Disease on Australia's doorstep, the shadow assistant minister for transport and infrastructure responds to the minister's pausing of round 6 of the Building Better Regions Fund due to ANAO audit concerns, encouraging a pause to reflect on a similar program under the forme...

Senator Antic spoke in the Senate in the return sitting week after the May federal election about the rhetoric of emergency used to increase government power and deploying it for the latest 'emergency', such as the climate emergency - the Dutch farm protests are highlighted as an example of citizens pushing back

Minister King says the former government's flagship funding program for regional Australia devolved through the funding rounds into 'almost a choose your own adventure' arrangement where 'other factors' than departmentally-assessed merit seemed more persuasive through a select ministerial panel, with National Party held seats disproportionately benefiting from grants. Consequently, the Minister in...

Australia IS FMD free and aims to remain so, the CEO of Woolproducers Australia tells FlowFM listeners, discussing also how the Victorian electronic traceability model for sheep ought to be rolled out - from a producers' point of view - across the nation, as agreed by Australian agriculture ministers Wednesday week ago

After addressing a Colac and district farmer protest on Wednesday, the local MP says farmers want immediate cessation of non-essential travel to South East Asian countries, particularly Indonesia and its Bali region - or otherwise a list of initiatives he will raise in the Victorian Parliament next week

There's no cases of Foot and Mouth Disease in Australia but its been a driving factor in falls between 5 to 12% in the cattle and sheep markets respectively over the last week after extensive coverage of the threat of an incursion from Indonesia, particularly Bali

Ed discusses with Flow listeners across regional Australia the will-they, won't-they game of Russian exports of food and farm inputs out of the Ukraine / Black Sea reason as one driver for global market activity in grains and oilseeds this week and harvest expectations for the northern hemisphere crop

In her first sitting week sworn in after winning a senate seat at the May 2022 federal election, new South Australian senator Kerrynne Liddle speaks with Flow on the Wednesday inflation data was due out highlighting the significant cost of living challenges for Australians. Senator Liddle also discusses the South Australian bipartisanship on delivering the 450 gigalitres committed under the Murray...