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... and Steve talks with Rikki on Flow for the Country Viewpoint program (12-2pm weekdays) also about the recent rise in the sheep price and what might be driving those movements.

"It's welcome the new premier has taken a step away from the old culture", Mr Graham tells Flow listeners as the Labor Opposition in NSW tables a bill to put an end to grant schemes 'going 95% to government or marginal electorates'

From State Parliament on Wednesday 17 November, Emma Kealy MP the Nationals member for Lowan tells Flow the pandemic powers debate has been powerful and urges western Victorian MLC Andy Meddick to rethink not only his position but his stance on freedom to protest given his stance on activists going to protest on Victorians' farms. Ms Kealy also discusses cuts to life skills programs in her elector...

'Cashed up' metropolitan councils could lose funding to remote and financially disadvantaged regional councils in a funding model the Mildura independent is exploring that would benefit the Yarriambiack and Buloke Shire councils in her electorate if she secures state and/or federal support

The currently independent member for Narungga leaves open the door to returning to the Liberal fold even if elected as an independent in the Yorke Peninsula seat at the March 2022 State Election, as he targets improving country health coverage in the seat - and addresses the extent of pandemic powers - in this interview with Rikki on Flow

The AWU national secretary hits back at Agriculture Minister Littleproud's record on representing workers in the horticulture sector and the minister's comments on Flow about on how closely connected union leaders are to farm workers, the Minister saying they needed to get closer than '30,000 feet above them flying over them'.

Minister McKenzie has made her landmark speech on what the federal government means by 'regionalisation', wanting population to grow faster in regions than in the capital cities - enabled by water security and energy security, which could include nuclear small modular reactor technology to provide reliable, baseload energy. The Minister also notes thats preserving prime agricultural land from urba...

Securing fertiliser among other things could be a challenge for 2022/23, Brett says, as he shares an innovative way one farmer has secured a harvest machinery operator to get through a labour-constrained harvest.

WoolPoll landed on keeping the levy rate at 1.5% but could there be change in the winds on the board? Steven reviews with Rikki the week's wool auction activity and a mysterious week in China.

The federal agriculture minister says zero labourers have been brought in under an agriculture visa due to negative commentary about farmers from federal Labor and the union movement, saying ABARES projects 30,000 workers were needed in horticulture alone by February 2022

Premier Steven Marshall's nuclear industry announcement limited to the defence sector needed to go further, the states' peak resources body tells Flow, and greater leadership is needed from the likes of SA federal MP Rowan Ramsey the member for Grey on advocating for embracing nuclear energy and small modular reactors to assist getting to 'net zero'.

Could the British government have just opened the way for the AUKUS Treaty to deliver to Australia the 'future technology' the Morrison government roadmap contemplated, small modular nuclear reactor technology? Wayne and Rikki discuss on Flow.

There's no BTS here as Wayne and Rikki discuss Australia's urea for Korea program, with an air tanker for 27,000 litres being flown in to sure up Korea's supply - the penny drops that this demonstrates why a South Korean backer is right behind the reinvigoration of Leigh Creek in remote South Australia

The member for Murray Plains speaks with Rikki on Flow about the push to pass pandemic powers through the Victorian Legislative Council, the need for a Royal Commission into the handling of the pandemic, reopening the Red Shirts affair after the IBAC evidence of former ALP Minister Adam Somyurek and the importance of going ahead with Remembrance Day commemorations on 11 November among uncertainty...

James Cook University's Professor Bill Laurance is confident new technology used by his research team will unearth "never-before-seen species" in the region's rainforest canopies. "There's heaps of stuff in a rainforest that hasn't been discovered yet," he told AAP, "Any time you start looking in strange places like a canopy all kind of things pop up. It's one of the great biological frontiers lef...

On the Flow Morning Show, Wayne chats with Thomas Elder Markets' Matt Dalgleish about the Glasgow Climate Conference and surrounding commitments national governments and others have made affecting agriculture