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The regional South Australian Liberal senator says rural, regional and remote Australians will feel let down by a government visa decision prioritising filling workforce gaps in metropolitan areas first. In Question Time earlier this week, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt representing Health Minister Mark Butler said the Albanese government had cut the national visa backlog from 1 million to 600,0...

The independent MP for Stuart and minister in the Malinauskas Labor Government was the former local government minister prior to 2018 and retraces the history of Coober Pedy's administration challenges, questions the efforts of the SA Liberals in government and the Local Government Association's assistance to Coober Pedy and defends the government's efforts on the water supply challenges since it...

The man appointed by the then Marshall Liberal government to administer Coober Pedy during the suspension of the council's elected representatives has responded to criticisms of his now concluded tenure as administrator by the returned local government minister Geoff Brock (full statement from Minister Brock in this story here: https://www.flownews24.com.au/post/brock-attacks-jackson-s-coober-pedy...

For FlowFM listeners in the NSW Riverina and western NSW, through to northern, western and south coast Victoria and across regional South Australia, we speak with the marketing manager and private dietician Glenys Zucco from Dairy Australia about the benefits of dairy and milk products and increased consumption in Australia.

The shadow minister for local government in South Australia, Sam Telfer, responds to the written attack minister Geoff Brock launched on the now former Coober Pedy administrator and the Liberals' handling of the town's water supply (read the full Ministerial comments here: https://www.flownews24.com.au/post/brock-attacks-jackson-s-coober-pedy-record). As the member for Flinders including the Eyre...

The shadow assistant minister for infrastructure and transport Tony Pasin tells FlowFM 'the drums are beating' on politicians' return to Canberra for an attack on the diesel fuel tax rebate. The South Australian MP for Barker talks about his motion in parliament this week calling on the government to spend 100% of its revenue from fuel tax on road improvements and repair, discusses the contributio...

James Roberts , General Manager - Group Fraud Management Services at Commonwealth Bank appeared on the Country Viewpoint to discuss scams sinking regional Aussie businesses and unsuspecting online users. The conversation comes off the back of a recent interview with cybersecurity expert Stephen Kho a week ago on the Flow, along with new research highlighting over half of Australians are more conce...

The NSW Labor shadow minister for regional transport and roads says the Opposition has been waiting for today's (Tuesday 7 February 2023) budget update from the Coalition government before releasing their funding pledge for regional roads, saying poor budget management in Sydney contrasts with the now $2 billion plus they say needs to be spent on the road maintenance backlog across regional New So...

On his first day of his own planned breakaway from administering the Coober Pedy Council, Tim Jackson talks about what's great about living in the town, his recent concerns about anti-social behaviour by visitors to the town - and calls for SA Water to buy the estimated $12 million dollars worth of council water assets to wipe out the in-trouble council's $10 million in debt. The Council has been...

One Nation's first MLC elected to the South Australian parliament, Sarah Game, says she's the only opposing the Malinauskas Labor government's Voice to Parliament bill for indigenous South Australians. She says the bill is thin on detail and could give the right to representatives elected solely by indigenous people to speak on any issue in the State Parliament.

Zachary Whale from GrainGrowers appeared on the Country Viewpoint this week. The General Manager of Policy and Advocacy at GrainGrowers, who says he is 'passionate about grains and ag policy', discussed the peak body's pre-budget submission on the show - calling on federal government support for the industry. Several talking points were outlined including: a significant upgrade in funding for frei...

The NSW Farmers' head of policy and advocacy Annabel Johnson farms at Murringo and knows from first-hand experience the importance of being able to get a farm firefighting unit out to a fire, sometimes due to the tyranny of distance well before other firefighting units can arrive. The NSW Farmers are calling on the NSW government to give conditional licensing to the units as this summer's bushfire...

Michell Wool's Andrew Partridge shares the good news from the trading floor of a strong market for wool producers flat out shearing at the moment as the Australian Wool Exchange does a roaring trade.

The man who could be the next New South Wales treasurer says the premier has it wrong on how the state economy is travelling, and despite yesterday's attack on Labor's alleged lack of a small business policies, some have already been announced and more are coming. With the Reserve Bank of Australia meeting on Tuesday and expected to raise interest rates another 25 basis points to contain inflation...

The northern Victorian Nationals MP and leader of the state party raises alarm at the state of regional Victorian roads prior to the pandemic and flooding, let alone now and calls for the state authorities to repair roads. Peter Walsh MP for Murray Plains says past Victorian Electoral Commission reviews into representation structures in regional councils haven't always worked out how councils want...

The Liberal Party's MP for the state's largest federal seat, Grey, talks with Flow listeners about a recent federal government funding announcement for William Creek residents near Oodnadatta with the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the state of regional roads and addresses concerns voiced by others from Coober Pedy to Ceduna about alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour as federal parliamentary sittin...

We get the latest from the Wagga Thursday sheep sales with James Tierney from Riverina Livestock Agents and whilst there's positive news there, Monday's cattle sales were in the doldrums. Why? We pick James' brain on what might be going on and where there might be positives for livestock producers in the region during 2023.

Senior climatologist at the Bureau of Meteorology Dr Andrew Watkins updates FlowFM listeners in south-eastern Australia particularly farmers and other regional listeners on what their current long range forecast is indicating concerning the recently dominant La Nina and negative Indian Ocean Dipole pattern and what the Bureau is observing in long-term changes in those dominant weather systems due...

A lot of the hot topics from 2022 are still with us in early 2023 including the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and high input prices, but as Episode3.Net's Andrew Whitelaw explains, it's a mystery why some international easing on input price costs doesn't necessarily flow straight through to Australian producers. We also discuss the high cost of diesel squeezing returns for Australian cropp...

Tracing sheep and lambs using electronic identification got a leg-up during 2022 due in no small part to the concerns Foot and Mouth Disease could find its way into Australia via Indonesia, and the implementation work continues involving Sheep Producers Australia's CEO Bonnie Skinner. We talk about where the costs of that plan might ultimately be borne, what the peak body has been supporting in re...

The member for Flinders in South Australia's west already had a lot on his radar as a local MP including growing antisocial behaviour concerns in Ceduna, but with new shadow responsibilities for policing Sam Telfer talks with FlowFM about alcohol-fuelled antisocial behaviour concerns in Coober Pedy, the encouraging SA population growth data reported recently by the Australian Bureau of Statistics,...

We speak with the shadow agriculture minister Mick Veitch MLC on the extent to which NSW Labor's pledges for a fully independent agriculture commissioner would match what the NSW Farmers Association are seeking this election, but how they would stop land use conflicts such as those seen in Gunnedah recently between farmers and miners, and with the HumeLink project.

From the Wagga aerodrome improvements to a tourist-attracting light show, the deputy premier was in Wentworth sharing a host of government announcements investing in the south western NSW town in the electorate of Murray, held by independent Helen Dalton. We discuss with NSW National Party leader Paul Toole (pictured centre) where the NSW Nationals are at on pokie reform and how - and why - that d...

With a state election on 25 March 2023 we speak with the member for Albury Justin Clancy, his electorate includes the Federation Council and we discuss the impacts of local flooding, the impending likely recess of the Corowa Rutherglen Football and Netball Club for 2023 due to flood damage, and grants received and now available for community groups, councils and others to improve community facilit...

The South Australian Liberal Party's shadow cabinet is visiting the South East based in Mount Gambier this week and we caught up with the shadow minister for regional health services, ageing, preventative health and wellbeing about her new portfolio roles, mental health and suicide prevention. We discuss the potential hidden mental health struggle under the recent record grain harvest, the New Yea...