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Australian nuclear energy advocate James Fleay also responds to the Environment Minister's claims regarding small modular reactors in Australia - and points to the United Arab Emirates as a case study on how quickly, relatively speaking, a nation could include baseload nuclear energy in their decarbonised energy mix

The Australian Crop Report is out for December and it's mixed fortunes for many but good progress in the nation as a whole towards agreed $100 billion farmgate value targets by 2030

The independent MP for Narungga talks about improving regional health services, attracting and retaining doctors via a parliamentary inquiry - if he can initiate it with 10,000 signatures.

After a momentary price lift last week, the market resumed its doldrums but there were signs of fresh buying activity to lift producers into the final two trading weeks at the Australian Wool Exchange for 2022 where almost $1 billion worth of wool has sold again this year.

Viterra's South Australian grain production estimates are upward of 11.5m tonnes, potentially the second largest just under the 2016/17 harvest, close to the 12.1m estimated by PIRSA on Thursday - and quality remains up in many areas in a boost to rain-affected growers facing a Christmas and New Year season harvesting later than usual in the summer

Crop harvest conditions vary across southern Australia as prices shift internationally due to the Russia - Ukraine Black Sea export deal increases supply.

There's been a billion dollar lift in the expected South Australian 2022/23 grain crop as it comes in later, but fast on the west coast of the state

Both a little bleary-eyed from watching the Socceroos triumph over Denmark in Qatar, Matt and Flow's Rikki Lambert discuss the domestic market movements for Australia's cattle and sheep producers.

SA Power Networks' Paul Roberts outlines the preparations and scenarios the state's largest energy utility has been activating in response to inflows on the SA River Murray unseen potentially since the 1970s and responds to the federal MP for Barker Tony Pasin's criticisms of engagement with small towns on the Murray

We discuss for regional Australian listeners the challenges facing state governments and future expenditure, and where their debt ratios sit relative to comparable provinces or sub-national governments in other parts of the world.