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We've been chatting up the market on FlowFM with Andrew Partridge from Michell Direct Wool and it's worked a charm in the last dance for 2022 with big sales volumes and great prices for sellers. We cast our eye forward to the other side of the three-week break as shearers go hell for leather working through the backlog of fleece on the sheeps' backs.

Over 25,000 trucking positions are vacant requiring government intervention to fill the labour shortage in the nation's transport industry according to the National Road Transport Association's CEO Warren Clark, in a chat where we discover the legislative changes for trucking that NatRoad is pursuing in 2023 and the road and infrastructure improvements needed to accommodate more high performance vehicles in future - as well as the future and realistic potential of electric trucks

The federal opposition leader talks about Thursday's energy package and which parts the Opposition were willing to support, responds to NSW Premier Dom Perrottet and energy minister Matt Kean this week expressing support for 'the nuclear conversation' as part of our future energy mix, and says he's liaised with coalition MPs Tony Pasin in Barker (SA) and Anne Webster (Vic) on flooding in the Riverland and Sunraysia respectively, saying he wants to visit at an appropriate time and not get in the way.

The shadow assistant minister for transport and member for Barker attacks the Malinauskas Labor government's cost blowout on the final section of the North-South corridor on South Road, saying it puts at risk the prospect of his hopes for future duplication of parts of the Dukes and Sturt Highways in the Barker electorate. The MP taking in parts of the flood affected SA Murray talks about whether and when Peter Dutton might visit flood affected communities, and says Thursday's energy debate and legislative package passed through a recalled federal parliament was a waste of an estimated $1 million of taxpayer money getting MPs to Canberra to pass it.

There may be one last cattle sale next week but its our last chat for 2022 with Riverina Livestock Agents' James Tierney fresh from the lamb sales on Thursday at Wagga Wagga, also reflecting on Monday's cattle sales throughput and buyer interest

The shadow assistant minister for regional development speaks with Flow listeners in north western Victoria on the day of the Albanese Labor government's sudden recall of parliament for an energy market intervention legislative package to hit back at Treasurer Jim Chalmers' claim the Opposition would not be on the 'right side' of the debate

The member for Flinders covering South Australia's west coast and the Eyre Peninsula discusses unfinished business for the region on water security, a big harvest and the impact it is having on the roads and holiday road traffic, the recent native title determination for the Wirangu people over Streaky Bay and surrounds - and celebrating the resilience of school children despite a COVID-19 affected couple of school years.

The One Nation leader is resigning his seat to contest the Legislative Council election in March 2023 in a move to bolster his party's stocks as the Christian Democratic Party folds and Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party struggles to retain its MPs. The former federal Labor leader described as a 'stunt' the opposition leader Chris Minns' call for state parliament to be recalled to debate energy prices - the same day the Albanese Labor government federally recalls politicians to pass its own energy market intervention.

From wheat, barley and canola to outlooks for cattle, sheep and wool, the ANZ's head of agriculture insights Michael Whitehead shares the bank's outlook for farmers across the nation heading into 2023

The South Australian Arid Lands Landscape Board is conducting trials in kangaroo management (https://www.landscape.sa.gov.au/saal/news/new-trials-to-manage-roos-in-the-rangelands) and we speak with the general manager Jodie Gregg-Smith on misconceptions and reasons behind kangaroo number control and the impacts over-abundant kangaroos can have both on farming and the environment.