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The Family First Party's lead candidate for the NSW Legislative Council Lyle Shelton talks with Flow listeners in southern New South Wales about: why they're making a principled decision to preference One Nation whilst potentially getting nothing in return, the recent attack on Premier Perrottet's Catholic faith from a now former Clubs NSW spokesperson the apparent Coalition-Labor bipartisanship o...

The South Australian tourism minister joins FlowFM from the Yorke Peninsula after the third Malinauskas Government regional community cabinet meeting in 6 months since Labor returned to office at the March election. Zoe Bettison talks about the region's great tourism assets, the resilience in the sector's domestic demand, challenges growing the international tourism numbers post-pandemic, selling...

Jo Hall the CEO of Woolproducers Australia speaks with Flow about the latest advocacy the industry's peak body has undertaken for the nation's wool producers including on sheep traceability, a consultation on the Wool Declaration (more information here ) and encourages farmers to report livestock theft after 700 sheep were taken from Victoria's goldfields between October and February, detected rec...

Episode3.net's Matt Dalgleish goes through the latest data on export markets, the herd rebuild for cattle and sheep producers and which competitors overseas have fallen out of love with sheep production. We also discuss how the live export market is travelling and the price correction in the saleyards for cattle.

Primary Industries, Forest Industries and Regional Development minister Clare Scriven joins FlowFM from Wallaroo, Yorke Peninsula where the third Community Cabinet meeting in regional SA in less than a year is occurring to talk about a new regional housing initiative. With regional labour in short supply, South East SA based Minister Scriven describes how the housing initiative is targeted at firs...

The Regional Australia Institute this week highlighted the Yorke and Clare Valley combined region as a job vacancy hotspot rising 33 per cent on the latest monthly data and as the Malinauskas Labor Government's cabinet visits Wallaroo to listen to the local community, we spoke with the local MP Fraser Ellis about local labour and housing demands and a disturbing incident this week at the Wallaroo...

The MP for Flinders covering the Eyre Peninsula says the ball is now in SA Water's court on selecting a desalination plant for water security to relieve a time-limited Uley Basin, after the Marshall Liberal government appointed site selection committee wrapped up its work. We discuss the recent interview on FlowFM by the local government minister Geoff Brock and clear up the history of what the Lo...

Agricultural analyst Sean Hickey shares the latest data on the grain and canola harvest, easing input costs, whether exports to China are lifting and more in a comprehensive wrap for the cropping sector.

We discuss with the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Banking Association, Anna Bligh, the commercial reasons banks are closing regional branches, whether they will self-impose a moratorium like the Commonwealth Bank have on branch closures as another political inquiry occurs and the growing role Australia Post is playing in banking services. We explore whether Australia Post alter its sho...

Some voices in the Ceduna community have expressed concern that anti-social behaviour has been on the rise and one of those is the former mayor, Alan Suter who outlines his concerns particularly for women and children from indigenous communities.

South Australian local government minister Geoff Brock navigates the history and current situation where 3 mayors and 43 other councillors' November elections have been vacated and, while supplementary elections are currently underway for unfilled positions at November's polls, some ratepayers will have to vote for a 3rd time potentially to fill freshly vacated positions due to a disclosure compli...

Queensland senator Gerard Rennick successfully moved for a senate inquiry last week into Australian banks closing regional branches. The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs committee will investigate the closures and visit regional areas, and at the senator's initiation wrote to the major banks asking that they halt closures until the inquiry was complete. The Commonwealth Bank (CBA) have agreed wit...

The independent member for Murray in south western New South Wales says federal water minister Tanya Plibersek needs to listen to the likes of herself who have solutions other than buying farm water, to improve environmental outcomes. Helen Dalton is calling for the capacity of Burrinjuck Dam near Yass, NSW to be quadrupled to 4,000 gigalitres as one solution. Mrs Dalton attacks the NSW Nationals...

A court case outcome on sustainable logging in Victorian native forests may come too late for woodchopping competitions in regional Victorian agricultural shows, shadow agriculture minister Emma Kealy told FlowFM listeners on Tuesday. With the state and nation's paper supply also squeezed by the impasse, the Victorian Nationals deputy leader highlights that carbon sequestration is at its strongest...

The South Australian shadow minister for water and regional South Australia speaks with FlowFM about the recent Malinauskas Labor government announcement of three periurban sites including Concordia (near Gawler north of Adelaide) where tens of thousands of prospective housing opportunities will be created through local government planning changes. The Opposition say the three locations' proximity...

The Regional Roads minister recently committed on FlowFM to explore extending a northern New South Wales betterment trial elsewhere in the state and on Friday at the NSW Nationals' March election campaign launch, the Coalition government announced $1 billion in spending on regional roads including a $300 million pledge to better flood and disaster-affected roads across the state if they win the el...

Victoria's shadow water minister called on the state minister to oppose buybacks (purchasing water entitlements from farmers) at the next ministerial meeting of the Murray Darling Basin state and territory ministers. In a statement provided to FlowFM, water minister Harriet Shing said: “Victoria does not support buybacks – our regional communities have been dealing with the impacts from previous C...

The South Australian Liberal senator Alex Antic moved in parliament last week his private member's bill to hold organisers of disruptive protests accountable where the protest activity involves committing criminal offences such as trespass. We discuss whether that might extend to feeding pork to livestock bound for the Middle East or women exposing themselves to protest on climate change at the Sa...

The Chief Executive Officer of the South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy recites the mining minister's own words from 2019 back at him in response to his ministerial veto of a mine proposal in the Adelaide Hills due to amenity, groundwater and safety concerns.

The Australian wool market lifted again this week but next week's trade is looking a little rocky according to Michell Wool's trading manager Andrew Partridge as Chinese demand appears, for now, to have dried up.

The member for Mallee calls for a moratorium on the big four banks closing more branches as a new senate inquiry begins into the closure of regional bank branches. Anne Webster calls on the Australian Banking Association to speak up on implementing recommendations from the Coalition's Regional Banking Taskforce.

The South Australian mining minister Tom Koutsantonis outlines the amenity, groundwater and safety grounds for why he used his power as minister to block Terramin's gold mine proposal in the Adelaide Hills wine region close to three significant wineries Bird In Hand, Petaluma and Art Wine. We discuss the reactions by the local independent MPs Dan Cregan and federal MP Rebekah Sharkie and that of t...

Cattle prices have corrected to a more business-as-usual pre-pandemic level in 2023 but sheep prices remain resistant to increased supply in the market. Cattle export numbers are up as we discuss the latest with Meat and Livestock Australia's senior market information analyst Ripley Atkinson.

On FlowFM across regional South Australia, Victoria and southern New South Wales we speak with the ANZ's Michael Whitehead about the positives and challenges facing the cropping sector and the likely strong interest in farm real estate in 2023.

The Finance Sector Union say the Coalition's Regional Banking Taskforce was beholden to the banks and others with vested interests and didn't listen to their union. The South Australian state secretary says the Union hopes the new Senate Rural and Regional Affairs committee inquiry will listen to their views and that of bank workers in regional Australia.