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The Nationals MP for Mildura speaks with FlowFM listeners in the state's north-west about the challenges collecting firewood due to government regulation, grants that have been received or are available to the local community - and the expediting of work on a vital rehabilitation service.

There's plenty of peculiar elements to pick through in this week's wool market with differing outcomes across the merino wool categories and various elements at play in supply and demand, as we discuss with Michell Wool's Andrew Partridge.

Episode3.Net's Andrew Whitelaw cautions farmers about diving into long-range carbon sequestration deals as we also discuss planting intentions this coming season, where the weather's heading and getting some transparency on fertiliser use ... and how carbon itself is accounted for against the social good any given product provides, such as food security.

The National Party leader outlines why his party decided in Canberra this week to push for cigarette-style regulation of vaping products, and responds to a criticism from health minister Mark Butler seeking to link a donation from Philip Morris International to the announcement. We also discuss with the shadow agriculture minister the future of live exports in Australia for sheep and cattle and the position the RSPCA expressed to Mr Littleproud about an out of sight, out of mind approach to the issue.

Australian Monarchist League spokesperson Alessandro Rosini joins us from Melbourne to talk about the possibility of a public holiday for some Australians in recognition of the coronation of His Majesty King Charles III in May, after the Western Australian premier indicated some interest in doing so. We discuss a number of other precedents from the late Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953 that haven't been followed for this event, even though Australia's system of government remains a constitutional monarchy.

There are moves by some energy retailers through the Australian Energy Regulator (or equivalent authority) to allow south eastern Australian rooftop photovoltaic panel owners to be charged for generating energy at peak times. We discuss this and a claim by a University of South Australia academic on Tuesday 21 March 2023 that there may need to be a levy to address the cost of recycling an estimated 80 million panels, or approximately 100,000 tonnes, of panels going into landfill at the end of their effective lives.

The shadow health and ageing minister Anne Ruston (pictured, right) joins FlowFM listeners across regional south-eastern Australia to discuss the admission by Aged Care minister Anika Wells on Monday that the legislated May target, one year from the election, to have registered nurses available continuously in every aged care facility in the nation, will not be reached. The South Australian senator questions which of the other legislated goals will also fail to be reached as a consequence, including key July and October benchmarks - and we discuss the impact the goverment's implementation of Royal Commission recommendations is having (and will have) in regional Australia.

The shadow minister for regional roads Jenny Aitchison joins us on FlowFM in the NSW Riverina across to Wentworth in the state's south-west to discuss how the Parliamentary Budget Office's analysis of election pledges by the Liberal-National Coalition government and Labor opposition stack up when it comes to regional road upgrades and repairs.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its latest Synthesis Report overnight Monday Australian time, and we speak with one of the IPCC members, the Australian National University's Mark Howden on what specifically the recommendations might spell for Australian farmers

The Nationals member for Mallee Anne Webster speaks with FlowFM listeners in north-western Victoria and across regional SA and southern NSW about the challenges the aged care sector faces as the federal Albanese Labor government implements Royal Commission recommendations in regional Australia. First, we discuss this week's debate in Canberra's parliamentary sittings about energy prices and the safeguards mechanism proposed by the federal government, with an eye to another International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report coming out Monday evening Australian time.