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The South Australian Chamber of Mines and Energy released research on Wednesday highlighting that there's strong South Australian community sentiment in the regions and metropolitan area to start a mature conversation about nuclear energy and what it might offer for the state and nation, be it for energy security or decarbonising Australian energy generation

... and talks up the Lockhart Show in September in his local electorate, a town among others that benefited from federal funding spent in the local community prior to the incoming Albanese government freezing round 6 of the Building Better Regions Fund after an audit report's findings on Thursday about how grants were being determined

Since 2016 Victorians convicted of murder could not be released on parole if they have not disclosed the location of the remains of their victim/s - the Derryn Hinch's Justice Party MP for Northern Victoria says this still empowers a murderer to inflict hardship on victims' families and wants them to remain beyond their court-imposed term in jail, potentially for life, if they do not disclose the location of remains

As the Albanese government begins a review into the Reserve Bank of Australia that Prof Hicks says is appropriate, the Charles Sturt University economics professor at Bathurst, NSW says previous comments from the RBA about rate rises during 2022 or 2023 need to be viewed against the context of unforeseen events in Europe, the re-opening of Australia's borders and severe weather events in Australia affecting food prices

... as livestock producers pause their enthusiasm for purchasing stock amid speculation about the risk level on Foot and Mouth Disease on Australia's doorstep, the shadow assistant minister for transport and infrastructure responds to the minister's pausing of round 6 of the Building Better Regions Fund due to ANAO audit concerns, encouraging a pause to reflect on a similar program under the former Labor federal government

Senator Antic spoke in the Senate in the return sitting week after the May federal election about the rhetoric of emergency used to increase government power and deploying it for the latest 'emergency', such as the climate emergency - the Dutch farm protests are highlighted as an example of citizens pushing back

Minister King says the former government's flagship funding program for regional Australia devolved through the funding rounds into 'almost a choose your own adventure' arrangement where 'other factors' than departmentally-assessed merit seemed more persuasive through a select ministerial panel, with National Party held seats disproportionately benefiting from grants. Consequently, the Minister indicated that Round 6 which was underway is effectively frozen now she has the ANAO report, and she is resolving how to clean up the 'mess' within the portfolio.

Australia IS FMD free and aims to remain so, the CEO of Woolproducers Australia tells FlowFM listeners, discussing also how the Victorian electronic traceability model for sheep ought to be rolled out - from a producers' point of view - across the nation, as agreed by Australian agriculture ministers Wednesday week ago

After addressing a Colac and district farmer protest on Wednesday, the local MP says farmers want immediate cessation of non-essential travel to South East Asian countries, particularly Indonesia and its Bali region - or otherwise a list of initiatives he will raise in the Victorian Parliament next week

There's no cases of Foot and Mouth Disease in Australia but its been a driving factor in falls between 5 to 12% in the cattle and sheep markets respectively over the last week after extensive coverage of the threat of an incursion from Indonesia, particularly Bali