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Sarah Strachan is the Group Manager - Adoption and Commercialisation at Meat and Livestock Australia and shares with Flow listeners how MLA has been working to achieve consistency across Australia's cattle producing regions on how their stock are described through new guidelines.

The Western Australian government recently announced it would require mandatory mental health checks for firearms owners. We speak with the president of the Shooters Union of Australia, Graham Park, about this departure from the National Firearms Agreement, Western Australia's tendency to go it alone, and where policing activity should focus when it comes to gun crime.

Dr Anne Webster speaks with Flow listeners in north western Victoria from Canberra during the sitting week, reflecting upon the two-day regional health forum she staged as shadow assistant minister for regional health at Mildura, Victoria in her electorate. We discuss what role the regulator AHPRA could play in helping alleviate the regional health doctor, nurse and skills shortage, as well as cover the Senate inquiry into regional bank branch closures (such as Robinvale in her electorate) and the concerns of Australia's trucking industry in attracting and training labour.

The chair of Australia's new peak body representing cattle producers, David Foote, speaks with Flow listeners about their membership model and debate at the end of last year about the body's formation, their focus on biosecurity threats particularly Foot and Mouth Disease and Lumpy Skin Disease in Indonesia, and how cattle producers are placed amid the herd rebuilt and the EYCI cattle price 'ski slope'.

The state member of parliament for Mackillop representing the South East of South Australia joins us on FlowFM to discuss recent fires in the Lucindale area, the upcoming South East Field Days, the dire need for housing supply particularly in Bordertown in the upper south east and at Robe on the Limestone Coast, and we reflect on a new parliamentary inquiry into duck hunting and what that could spell for the south east recreation drawcard.

Rhys Turton, GrainGrowers' Chair, discussed all important roundtable event featuring Agriculture Minister Murray Watt, on the Country Viewpoint last week.

The increasing impact of farm inputs on grain farming profitability and productivity is the focus of attention at the roundtable in Canberra on the 6th of March.

Organised by GrainGrowers, the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Murray Watt, along with other government dignitaries are attending the event.

Political veteran Graham Gunn discussed taking up the interim position as Streaky Bay Mayor on the Country Viewpoint.

Gunn explained how it came to be that he was recently installed as the town's mayor in a caretaker capacity following the recent disclosures scandal that has engulfed a number of South Australian mayors.

Gunn also reflected on his unrivalled political career as one of the nation's longest serving parliamentarians.

Buloke Mayor Alan Getley appeared on the Country Viewpoint last week to discusses a range of issues, including the disruptive in-principle aged care decision and upcoming Buloke events.

The Mayor, who was elected late last year, shared his agenda for the upcoming year in a wide-ranging interview.

CEO of Vistaprint Australia Marcus Marchant, discusses the risks Aussie business owners in the regions are taking to get ahead in a difficult climate.

Marchant unpacks research revealing that we’re a nation of risk-takers when it comes to small business ownership, especially in the early days of setting up a business.

Prior to his role, Marchant, an expert in digital transformation, worked in a number of high-profile roles, including Director of Digital & Onboarding at Optus.

A coalition of concerned groups are protesting outside the Federal Court hearings in Adelaide launched by the Barngarla people, native title holders over Kimba and surrounds. Their concern is that a survey relied upon by the federal government to approve proceeding with the Napandee nuclear waste storage facility did not include the views of native title holders who are resident outside the area, who overwhelmingly oppose the facility going ahead. Uncle Harry Dare tells Flow listeners the Woomera facility is leaking, and says the waste should continue to be stockpiled at Lucas Heights, near Sydney, saying federal government claims the site would soon fill up should be questioned.