The peak grain grower representative body in South Australia announced on Thursday that it had secured a compromise with the Country Fire Service and SA government with a big harvest coming through, regarding compliance with codes designed to prevent harvesting equipment starting fires.

Australians have felt the pain across all demographics of an estimated doubling of scam losses in this reporting year to $4 billion, but those aged over 65 have been particularly hard hit as the outgoing deputy chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Delia Rickard shares with Flow listeners, also welcoming the funding injection into Scamwatch announced on Flow by the Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones on Monday

Coal communities in his electorate are livid over the shutdown of their industry while native forestry has a dim future as the Shooters Fishers and Farmers Party's eastern Victoria MP says the new compact technology for nuclear energy should be considered in Australia's future energy mix in the rush to renewables away from baseload power like coal and gas.

The director-general of the global agency responsible for certifying disease free status and a key guide on animal welfare standards is visiting Australia in early November and Flow spoke with Australia's chief veterinary officer on the importance of that visit and updated listeners on Australia's efforts preventing or eradicating varroa mite, Japanese encephalitis, foot and mouth disease and lumpy skin disease

The northern Victorian MLC says she heard concerns at Ouyen Inc about plans for a big new public hospital at Mildura and whether local Mallee health services might be brought under it, and says for four years she's been talking about the Murray Basin Rail project as local roads are hammered in wet conditions and a big harvest on the way. We discuss drug detection and diversion at Mildura and the adequacy of health, doctor availability and ambulance response times in northern Victoria

T-Ports is receiving enquiries from growers from other states considering their export options and people in the logistics supply chain looking for work as the South Australian grain harvest gets underway in comparatively drier conditions to the eastern states as the Eyre Peninsula looks down the barrel at a record 4 million tonne grain harvest

No people or animals were harmed in the Struan Research Centre fire and the Minister wouldn't be drawn on the millions of dollars cost by the fire, but the historic Struan House was saved thanks to the dedicated work of volunteer firefighters.

... the Western Victorian MLC wasn't racing to tell us who he'd look to impose a levy on to pay for the animal equivalent of Medicare as he discussed initiatives for LGBTIQA+ youth in his electorate and the impact of flooding in the local community.

The Financial Services Minister speaks of the understaffed Scamwatch effort at the ACCC which will be bolstered by the federal government as more Australians than ever are fleeced by scammers, particularly in the area of cryptocurrency. The Albanese Labor Government intends to make social media companies act on advertisements and enticements to invest in scams.

Water should have been released earlier from dams, levee banks repaired sooner and regional Victorians deserve an apology from the Andrews government over the handling of COVID-19 are some of the points made by northern Victorian Member of the Legislative Council Tim Quilty in this chat with regional FlowFM listeners.