The Excelsia College based chair of the Australian Christian Higher Education Alliance talks with regional listeners on FlowFM about the fantastic quality rankings for faith-based universities in the latest independent data and the opportunities regional students have to study at those institutions remotely or in their own region

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) latest report on farm debt shows it is tracking upwards with farmer confidence with positive growing conditions - but the data relates largely to a period before the Reserve Bank of Australia started increasing the cash rate and, thereby, interest rates to contain inflation. Read the report here: https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/surveys/farm-debt

The Senate resumed in late September after the memorial holiday for Queen Elizabeth II and began debating the Albanese Labor government's repeal of the mandatory cashless debit card in regional Australia including Ceduna in South Australia. FlowFM previously spoke with local MP Rowan Ramsey and minister Amanda Rishworth and caught up with shadow health minister Anne Ruston carrying debate in the Senate on what might eventuate with Labor needing the Greens Party's support to pass the repeal bill. Questions remain on what the repeal might signal for income management in the Northern Territory which, if also repealed, Senator Ruston says would see blood on the hands of the federal government.

FlowFM caught up with the superintendent of Yorke-Mid North SA Police, Mark Syrus, who has volunteered for decades with Operation Flinders, about his time supporting at-risk young people and his observations over time on resilience, mobile phone use and exposure to social media. Mark says its tougher for young people in some respects in the modern era where it's hard to switch off from social pressure

Sporting clubs and regional businesses were targeted across a wide range of the Flow FM South Australian broadcast areas in recent months and SA Police believe they've apprehended the same two culprits for many of them (https://www.police.sa.gov.au/sa-police-news-assets/yorke-mid-north-local-service-area/men-charged-over-rural-break-ins-crime-series) - Flow speaks with the superintendent of the Yorke Mid-North police service area Superintendent Mark Syrus about the arrests and preventing crime in regional areas

The Malinauskas Labor South Australian government attacked the National Party recently (https://mcusercontent.com/a0bf08278627d68257ad822a8/files/6e2e8ca5-fccc-de6a-985d-e9f5ddd414c4/CLOSE_Irrelevant_National_Party_too_cute_by_half_on_Murray_Darling_Basin_Plan.pdf) and the former water minister and Nationals leader hit back claiming the Labor state government doesn't understand the Plan, also addressing federal spending in regional Australia, the imminent Albanese Labor federal budget in October and challenges federal health minister Mark Butler on regional lives potentially being at risk due to changes to Medicare provider rules and a lack of incentives to attract medical and other professionals to regional Australia

After NASA's successful mission colliding the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) satellite into Dimorphos, itself a satellite of the asteroid Didymos on Tuesday morning (Australian time) we also discuss with regional Australian listeners on Flow FM future mining of asteroids, space junk like bugs on our global defence windscreen and how collaboration on space and global defence is going amid geopolitical tensions with space powers Russia and China

South Australia's peak grain producer body is seeking dialogue with the Country Fire Service about a different arrangement on new rules on harvesting their crops during fire danger periods and welcomes the very strong interest in SA government grants for farm firefighting unit upgrades - and more would be welcome

From promoting sustainability, provenance and traceability to the long-wearing and all-climate comfort 100% Australian wool provides, Wool Producers Australia CEO Jo Hall discusses with regional listeners on FlowFM the value of promoting Australian wool particularly in a less than favourable trading conditions in the global apparel retail market

Some federal Labor government MPs have inserted into recent debate about a parliamentary code of conduct the need to control racism, sexism and 'micro-aggressions' - after he was shouted down in the senate by Victorian Greens senator Lidia Thorpe for 'racism' (which she later withdrew), the South Australian Liberal senator discusses with Flow listeners what future awaits us if parliament accommodates microaggression concerns