FlowNews24

Senator Alex Antic

Wayne Flowmans speaks with Senator Alex Antic South Australia Politician representing the Liberal Party on the Voice To Parliament fallout, full term abortion and gender therapy.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Dan spoke with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on The Voice to Parliament Referendum 2023.

MP Michelle Rowland announces free internet for 10,000 eligible South Australian families

Federal member for Greenway Michelle Rowland joined Dan Crouch to announce free internet access for 10,000 eligible South Australian families who are currently not connected. Ms. Rowland, Minister for Communications, outlined all the finer details of the plan, which was made possible by the South Australian Education Department, on Flow FM.

Clayton Bester talks with Sarah Furnari from Ten Pound Poms

Sarah Furnari, who stars in BBC & Stan's new original series Ten Pound Poms which just premiered May 14, 2023. Sarah is luminous as the outspoken and strong willed Maria, an Italian migrant who arrives in Australia in 1956 as part of the Assisted Migrant Passage Scheme. With integral and gripping scenes in the original series, she is a character not to be forgotten! Like the other migrants, when she arrives, what she finds is far from what she has been promised, with the migrant camp fallin...

Ripley Atkinson from Meat & Livestock Australia updates Flow listeners on the latest movements in the meat markets

Ripley Atkinson from Meat & Livestock Australia updated Flow listeners on the latest movements in the meat markets on this week's Country Viewpoint Market Day edition.

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool on a week of 'normalising' for Australian wool markets

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool on a week of 'normalising' for Australian wool markets. The biggest factor as to why the markets slowed marginally was down to currency movements, making many sellers were reluctant to accept the prices on offer.

Everybody’s Home spokesperson, Maiy Azize, on shifting the current housing rental crisis

Everybody’s Home spokesperson, Maiy Azize, told Flow FM on the Country Viewpoint program that the current housing crisis is worse in reality than what is currently being depicted in some sections of the media, with increased levels of homelessness resulting in metro and regional Aussies, who have families, sleeping in their cars. Azize claimed that more financial support was needed for low income earners struggling to keep a roof over their head.

Stability the overriding feeling as Andrew Partridge updates Flow listeners on the latest from the wool markets

Stability is the overriding feeling as Andrew Partridge updated Flow listeners on the latest from the wool markets on the Market Day edition of the Country Viewpoint. The market recorded an overall rise for the second consecutive series, with fleece wool attracting the most buyer attention this week. The national offering was smaller than the sum total of bales originally rostered, due in part to the 6.1% withdrawn prior to sale.

Wayne Phillips on canola chemical haloxyfop reduced for European Eunion

Wayne Phillips on Rex airline regional routes

Dan Crouch talks to Dr. Elizabeth Jackson about the collapse of Scott's Refrigerated Transport

Dr Elizabeth Jackson from Curtin University provided the details of transport company Scott's Refrigerated Transport and the knock-on effect it has had and will continue to have on regional businesses.

Dan Crouch speaks with Dr Jade Murray on world-first app aiding sleeping patterns for shift workers

Dan Crouch speaks with Dr Jade Murray on world-first app aiding sleeping patters for shift workers. Murray's work has been published in the journal, Digital Health, it focused on the importance of sleep for shift workers who play critical roles in enabling the nation to continue functioning. The research honed in on 27 shift workers who trialled the app over a fortnight. Those who participated in the trial mainly consisted of intensive care and emergency department nurses at high risk of...

Dan Crouch speaks with Dr Jade Murray on world-first app aiding sleeping patters for shift workers

Dan Crouch speaks with Dr Jade Murray on world-first app aiding sleeping patters for shift workers. Murray's work has been published in the journal, Digital Health, it focused on the importance of sleep for shift workers who play critical roles in enabling the nation to continue functioning. The research honed in on 27 shift workers who trialed the app over afortnight. Those who participated in the trial mainly consisted of intensive care and emergency department nurses at high risk of s...

Rob Moffatt, generational butcher and Co-Founder of ButcherCrowd speaks with Dan Crouch on the Country Viewpoint

Rob Moffatt, generational butcher and Co-Founder of ButcherCrowd speaks with Dan Crouch on the Country Viewpoint on the importance of organic meets and supporting Aussie farmers. Rob grew up surrounded by farming communities, having a heritage of four generations before him working in some capacity with Australian cattle. His parents, in addition to being cattle farmers, were also able to give him further insight into logistical and business operations, having interests in transport busines...

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool phones in for the Country Viewpoint Market Day edition after a positive week on the market front

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool phoned in for his Country Viewpoint Market Day edition market report after a positive week on the market front. After two successive weeks of losses and three without an overall increase, the Australian wool market recorded an overall rise in this series.

Mat McLachlan joins Dan Crouch to discuss ANZAC Day history and traditions

Leading war historian and battlefield guide Mat McLachlan joined Flow FM to talk all things ANZAC Day. Mat detailed his experiences with those close to him being involved in war, the things which sparked his interest in war history, and his plans for ANZAC Day. Mat also expressed his happiness with the willingness by the younger generation to honour the ANZACs.

Dan Crouch catches up with Dr Ray Kerkhove, Author of How They Fought which explores forgotten successes of Aboriginal resistance

Dan Crouch caught up with Dr Ray Kerkhove on the Country Viewpoint, who authored How They Fought: How They Fought: Pioneering research reveals ingenuity and forgotten successes of Aboriginal resistance. One of the key focus areas of the segment brings to light the historical significance of the Rufus River, one of the catchment areas of the Murray-Darling Basin in the Flow FM network. Kherkove specialises in Indigenous history and culture and has worked for almost four decades with First ...

Dr Mariana Caetano on 'breath testing' #cattle for #methane and other initiatives like feeding biserrula to reduce @CattleAus emissions

Lecturer in Animal Nurtition and Metabolism at the University of Adelaide, Dr Mariana Caetano, discusses on FlowFM the initiative to add seaweed and other supplements to cattle feed to reduce methane emissions, and the methods that may be used to help farmers monitor emissions.

Kristin Carson-Chahhoud @UniofAdelaide on a world-leading staged $150 supermarket vouchers to #quitsmoking | @sagovau @SAHealth

University of Adelaide Associate Professor Kristin Cason-Chahhoud talks with FlowFM listeners about a world first initiative backed by research into financial incentives to help people quit smoking - and vaping, announced by the South Australian government on Thursday 13 April 2023. We discuss the health impacts and prevalence of smoking and vaping, and how the $500,000 trial scheme to help people quit will work.

Susan Close on stormwater recycling for the Murray-Darling Basin and conserving groundwater and aquifer environs in the #LimestoneCoast

Dr Susan Close (pictured left with Marion mayor Kris Hanna) announced on Thursday a stormwater recycling pipeline extension project which will be credited towards saving water for the Murray-Darling Basin. We discuss whether desalination could be worked into that sort of water accounting in future, and recent grants for conservation across the state including to preserve aquifer and groundwater environments - and farm water supply - in the south east of South Australia.

Jason Barrett, 6th generation family farmer near St Arnaud, Victoria in the firing line of the #VNIWest project re a Monday town hall mtg

A group of local farmers have organised a town hall meeting in St Arnaud on Monday regarding the VNI West transmission line project that local farmer Jason Barrett says could go right through his farm. He says the local community doesn't want the project, and if undergrounding is an option - even if costly - it should be considered given the amount of taxpayer money spent in metropolitan Melbourne.

@EmmaKealyMP @TheNationalsVic deputy leader on the #Benalla abbatoir trespass case, Premier Andrews' ag background and #duckhunting

The member for Lowan Emma Kealy (pictured right) in western Victoria talks about the protests at a Benalla pig abbatoir that saw at least 7 arrests on Thursday 13 April 2023, the state of farm and agribusiness trespass laws and the comments from Premier Daniel Andrews about his own background in agriculture. The shadow agriculture minister also encourages the public to make submissions to the inquiry into duck hunting which she argues is stacked with MPs likely to recommend against future du...

Ripley Atkinson from @MeatLivestock talks #sheep and #cattle for @SheepProducers @CattleAus @Livestock_SA @VicFarmers @NSWFarmers producers

Meat and Livestock Australia Senior Market Information Analyst Ripley Atkinson joins us again on Flow to inform listeners on the latest market movements and what they mean for Australia's cattle and sheep producers.

Jo Hall CEO of @WoolProducers back from #India on her visit, domestic or Asian processing, #Vietnam and #China trade

The chief executive of Wool Producers Australia recently returned from India on a trade mission to promote closer relations between the wool sectors in our two countries, and sums up the latest work on exploring additional wool processing capacity in the Asia-Pacific region.

@ZachWhale from @GrainGrowersLtd on #China #Barley and how recent news may (or may not) feed into farmers' rotation plans

Zachary Whale, the general manager of policy and advocacy at GrainGrowers Limited, speaks with Flow listeners on the positive news from Australia's trade and foreign ministers that China will be reviewing its imposts on Australian barley with a possible end to tariffs in sight. We discuss whether this might impact 2023-24 planting intentions.

Specsavers optometrist Michael Angerame examines the impact of Aussies increasingly neglecting health checks

Important health checks such as eye and hearing tests have fallen off the priority list for Aussies according to Specsavers optometrist Michael Angerame. New research revealed 52 per cent of Australian parents aged 18-50 are forgoing health appointments due to the increasing cost of living.

Grain Producers SA CEO Brad Perry discusses record grain harvest and other Grain Producer SA updates

Grain Producers SA CEO Brad Perry joined us in March discussed the record grain harvest which produced 12.8 million tonnes worth $4.6billion and smashed the previous record of 11 million tonnes set in 2016-17. Perry also expressed disappointment with the decision by Flinders Adelaide Container Terminal to increase charges on export containers by 30 per cent and urged them to reconsider the decision.

Access to childcare for regional Aussies continues to be an uphill battle according to Regional Australia Institute CEO Liz Ritchie

A study by the Regional Australia Institute showed childcare users in regional parts of the country have waited more than 12 months to access services. CEO Liz Ritchie said regional Australia suffers a gap in the provision of available childcare in many areas which is impacting regional workforce availability.

Volunteer numbers decreasing in Coorong District Council Community Groups and Sporting Clubs

Coorong Council CEO Bridgette Mather appeared on the Country Viewpoint program to outline some of the reasons for declining volunteer numbers among Coorong District Council community groups and sporting clubs. According to the council's 2022-23 Annual Business Plan, there is a succession plan for the implementation and sustainability of long-term community volunteer programs.

Stefan Vogel @RabobankAU on #Canola #Fertiliser #Russia #Barley #China #Wool #Sheep #LiveExports @SheepProducers @GrainProducers

The general manager of Rabo Research, Stefan Vogel, joins us on Flow to run through Rabobank's April update on how the farming sector is travelling across a range of commodities, including positive news on China's barley sanctions and the falling gas and fertiliser prices despite the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

@Penny_Pratt1 MP for Frome pleased on barley progress with #China, praises federal ministers' diplomatic efforts ... | @SALibMedia

The member for Frome was pleased to hear for barley growers in the state's mid-north in her electorate the positive signs that China is reviewing its sanctions on Australia's barley growers, as we discuss the state of local roads and regional health needs in the Liberal MP's shadow portfolio areas.

@SamTelferMP member for Flinders on policing, child care and water security | @SALibMedia

The local MP and shadow police minister discusses police resourcing needs in Ceduna and Port Lincoln after recent criminal activity, water security for the Eyre Peninsula and the northern parts of the state and how the lack of child care in the western South Australian electorate impacts local communities.

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool looks at the last sale at @WoolExchange before the short break for @WoolProducers

Ceduna-born Greens SA State Co-convener, Brenz Saunders, chats with Ellis Gelios about his background and the Voice to Parliament

Ceduna-born Greens SA State Co-convener, Brenz Saunders, chatted with Ellis Gelios about his professional background, his advocation for the Voice to Parliament, heading the Crows Foundation, his political aspirations and his views on antisocial behaviour in his hometown on the West Coast of South Australia. Brenz is a sharp operator with a big future and serves on a multitude of boards for such a young individual.

Bonnie Skinner @SheepProducers discusses her recent #EU trip to visit #France #Sheep producers, #sustainability, #LiveExports and more

We discuss with the Chief Executive Officer of Sheep Producers Australia an imminent trip to Western Australia to share first-hand what happens on a sheep live export vessel as the Albanese Labor government forges ahead with banning the practice, with cattle producers anxiously watching on. We also update listeners on the progress - or lack thereof - of state funding commitments towards electronic traceability of sheep.

Matt Dalgleish (@Meat_Watcher) on @CattleAus; #Italy Banning lab meat & insect wheat; #Mutton, #LiveExports | @SheepProducers @Livestock_SA

Episode3.Net's Matt Dalgleish joins us on FlowFM to discuss the latest movements in cattle, sheep, mutton and protein markets in Australia and around the world.

@ClareScriven on #AgTech grants open, #CarbonFarming grant recipients and re-opened #Goolwa Pipi fishery | @ALPSA @SAgovau

South Australia's primary industries minister speaks with Flow listeners about the re-opening of Goolwa's pipi (cockle) fishery as e.coli concerns diminish, recipients of carbon farming grants including Mallee Sustainable Farming and a new grant round to promote agricultural technology and innovation, focused on sustainability and resilience.

Michael McCormack (@M_McCormackMP) #Riverina MP on the 4-person tragic fatality at Yanco, @RBAInfo rate pause, Lockhart heroes

The Nationals MP for Riverina reacts to Wednesday morning's tragic news that a woman and three related boys aged 10-12 years of age have died in a single vehicle accident at Yanco, near Leeton in the NSW Riverina. We discuss the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision to end 10 consecutive hikes of the cash rate to assess their impact on the economy, cost of living and energy price challenges, a local Lockhart legend commemorated for ANZAC Day and the efforts of local women and girls leading up ...

Sean Hickey from @Profarmer_aus on #Barley, #China, #Canola, #Wheat, #Russia @RuralBank

Agricultural Analyst at Profarmer Australia, Sean Hickey talks about the latest movements in China and Russia and how they might affect Australia's cropping sector and prices, as we discuss planting intentions and the latest price movements in barley, grain and canola.

@VincentTarzia reaches out to @Joe_Szakacs to find bipartisan road safety solutions to rising SA road toll | @SALibMedia

The shadow minister for road safety Vincent Tarzia says he's written to the police minister Joe Szakacs to address a very concerning rise in South Australia's road toll to listen to experts and develop solutions to reduce road trauma and deaths on the state's roads.

Dr Teresa Lebel on Death Cap mushroom and wild #mushroom consumption risks | @ChiefBotanist @BotGardensSA @SAHealth

The senior botanist and mycologist at the State Herbarium in Adelaide talks with FlowFM listeners about the dangers of death cap mushrooms already detected this season in the Adelaide Hills and provides tips on identifying and avoiding risk when foraging for mushrooms, and symptoms to watch for and be aware of longer-term for adults, children or animals that have eaten them

David Littleproud (@D_LittleproudMP) on the 38t #Biosecurity haul, funding and #FruitFly | @The_Nationals @TheNationalsVic

The National Party federal leader talks about efforts of the former Coalition government to adequately fund biosecurity for the long term after federal officials detected 38 tonnes of meat and other products in western Sydney recently. The shadow agriculture minister discusses initiatives to combat Queensland fruit fly in South Australia and Victoria's Sunraysia region, questioning what will be in the May federal budget to preserve biosecurity for productivity and export market access.

@AjayaHaikerwal from @SolarCitizens promoting electric utes in #regionalAus

Solar Citizens' Ajaya Haikerwal has been showcasing an electric ute in Canberra and lobbying politicians on fuel efficiency standards, driving the ute from Sydney to Melbourne and back including a visit in mid-April at Mulwala in southern New South Wales. We discuss the features of the LDV ute he's driving, charging opportunities and fuel efficiency.

Anne Webster for @TheNationalsVic / @The_Nationals on @BendigoBank agency closures, @GrattanInst migrant wage proposal

The member for Mallee says she's been informed that Bendigo Bank will close agencies in Warracknabeal and Sea Lake among other locations in her north-western Victorian electorate, and says she spoke at a migration forum in Sydney recently about a proposal to set a minimum annual salary for temporary and permanent skilled visa migrants into Australia.

@Anne_Ruston on #Victoria2026 and #Brisbane2032 preparations, oversight and what regional areas stand to gain from the games | @LiberalAus

Australia's shadow sports minister speaks with FlowFM listeners about how taxpayer money is being spent on the Commonwealth Games and Olympic Games both being hosted in Australia in the next decade, as the Coalition opposition succeed in launching a senate inquiry into various aspects of the Games' preparations

Angus Gidley-Baird (@Angus_GB) from @RabobankAU on the price slide for @CattleAus producers, steady prices for @SheepProducers @LivestockSA

Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool on this week at @WoolExchange for @WoolProducers as the wool comes in longer and a dump solution looms

Andrew Partridge from Michell Direct Wool talks about the finer detail of a market where the Eastern Market Indicator stayed, in the final washup, the same as last week as we look at the slow progress on shearing and an emerging solution to the backlog on containerising wool as a replacement dumping capacity approaches coming online later in 2023.

Andrea Michaels (@michaels_andrea) Consumer and Business Affairs minister on regional petrol pricing @ALPSA @SAGovAu

The consumer affairs minister talks with regional South Australian FlowFM listeners about an imminent blitz of regional petrol stations' compliance with the realtime pricing scheme so that motorists locally and on holidays can find the best prices in popular holiday locations

Fabian Devereux from Grainwise talks grains, lentils, barley and Russia-Ukraine grain corridor

Founding director of Grainwise (www.grainwise.com.au) Fabian Devereux speaks with FlowFM listeners about local harvest outcomes and planting intentions in the Mallee and north-west of Victoria, how the lentil crop went locally and chatter about how long the Russia-Ukraine grain corridor might remain open.

@AshtonHurn on #ramping, Code Whites and the SA health pillow shortage | @SALibMedia

The shadow minister for health in South Australia and member for Schubert, Ashton Hurn, speaks with Flow listeners about the ramping of ambulances in metropolitan Adelaide, what the Code White situation in metropolitan hospitals means for regional SA listeners, and why the state government launched an audit of pillow availability in hospitals.