On the eve of a crisis summit in Canberra to discuss the shortage of general practice (GP) doctors across Australia, Adjunct Professor Karen Price the RACGP president speaks with Flow about the acute shortages and problems in rural and regional Australia

The shadow assistant minister for regional development (pictured centre) with Nationals deputy leader Perin Davey (left) and leader David Littleproud (2nd from left) heard concerns about housing affordability and healthcare in north-western Victoria during the listening post tour the day before a RACGP-led crisis Canberra summit on GP care across the nation

The shadow assistant minister for transport and infrastructure says the Mallee Highway in his own electorate is already crumbling before harvest, as he speaks about the September awareness campaign of rural road safety - and describes Labor's cost of living relief measures as laughable for delivering in the wrong areas, too little too late for immediate inflation pressures

The Shooters Union of South Australia are concerned about South Australian government plans to more tightly regulate hunting with bows in SA in what the government says fulfils an election commitment.

RLA's James Tierney breaks down the sales activity from the sheep yards at Wagga Wagga on Thursday 29 September 2022 and reflects on the trading on the cattle market there earlier in the week

The NSW Government has tried four times (at least) now to regulate floodplain harvesting in the northern Murray-Darling Basin - but it's not going hard enough according to non-government elements in both houses, including the independent MP for the NSW state seat of Murray, Helen Dalton. She's unapologetic that it's Groundhog Day - again - for the latest NSW water minister, who she wishes would agree to meet with her to work through the concerns.

From crop predictions to the latest concerns around grain output from the Black Sea region, Market Check's Tess Walch has the good oil on what's going on for Australian grain producers for the Country Viewpoint program on FlowFM

Plenty of wool trade originating from Geelong, Victoria where the sun is shining and Flow correspondent Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool is basking in the glory of a Geelong Cats AFL premiership, sunshine amid a gloomy wool market for Australian wool producers

On the morning the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) released their report card indicating a dire need for incentives to attract and retain general practice doctors to rural and regional Australia, the Liberal member for Grey in western South Australia spoke with FlowFM listeners about his efforts particularly in the northern Eyre Peninsula, and the imminent demise of mandatory participation in the Cashless Debit Card trial in Ceduna
(NOTE: The figure the RACGP indicated on Wednesday morning was in fact closer to $70-80,000 in cost to attract doctors to regional areas, not the $20,000 recalled in the interview)

... or more to the point "absolutely immoral and unethical, not only have they thrown their own people under the bus in terms of the Lower Darling, we've had farmers had to walk off after generations of farming, they've done it to neighbouring states which is quite frankly un-Australian." Strong comments from the Victorian state MP in north western Victoria on the NSW Government's handling of water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin, specifically floodplain harvesting