This week in South Australia the David Speirs led SA Liberal opposition declared it would oppose the Malinauskas Labor government's bill to legislate a voice to parliament for indigenous South Australians. We talk with the shadow attorney general Josh Teague about why that is the case, and how the state constitution will be changed if the bill passes with the support of the South Australian Greens in the Legislative Council.

The vice president of the New South Wales Farmers Association, Rebecca Reardon, joins us to talk about 'ground truthing' the locking up of farming land - some of which has been identified as state strategic agricultural land - for ecological preservation, mining & gas or renewable energy purposes - if or a combination of them all. The NSW Farmers want a fully independent Agriculture Commissioner to help farmers work through these land use conflicts.

The federal agriculture minister Murray Watt was in Adelaide this week for a major regional agricultural technology conference and talks about South Australian and nationally strong agricultural production returns despite challenges like the weather and the farm labour shortage. We discuss clearing the visa backlog to find more workers on farm, the cost of electronic traceability of sheep and how much the Commonwealth is contributing. We get the low-down on the chats with Europen Union representatives on what they had to say about Australian farmers' sustainability and right to use terms like prosecco, feta and parmesan as the fine print of a potential trade deal is hammered out.

A Bill to provide more time for mayors and councillors that failed to provide disclosure returns has passed the House of Assembly and is due for debate in the Legislative Council in late February 2023. The local government minister Geoff Brock is adamant the candidates received plenty of notice of their donation disclosure obligations but says the extension of time proposed by the Bill is not a precedent for other disclosure failures by elected representatives. Some 45 mayors or councillors presently are declared invalid winners from November's local government elections until - or if - the Bill passes, but will again be invalid if they fail the 13th hour bid to clear up what donations, if any, they received during the election campaign.

The researchers at Flinders University have done their own mythbusting about previously believed levels of nutrients in the Great Australian Bight and associate professor Jochen Kaempf explains the significance of their discovery of a vital marine food chain component, phytoplankton and why it has turned previous beliefs about the Bight's nutrient structure on its head.

We review with agricultural analyst Dennis Voznesenski Australia's huge grain and canola harvest, storages, pricing and potential destinations such as China - and how the market is factoring the Ukraine-Russia conflict as we pass 1 year in since the Russian invasion.

Clare Valley Wine & Grape Association's Belinda Heinrich appeared on the Country Viewpoint discussing all things Clare Valley Gourmet Week as the highly anticipated May event looms closer.

The region is widely considered one of the country’s most quintessentially Australian wine regions, with the event bringing to the fore the spectacular and award winning local wines and produce; celebrated chefs from across Australia and a diverse entertainment line-up not to be missed.

We speak with the politican who could soon be the minister for water, housing and homelessness in New South Wales about their stance on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan leading up to Friday's Ministerial Council meeting of Basin ministers, where NSW Labor stands on buybacks of farm water in the Basin, floodplain harvesting in the northern Basin and the dire shortage of housing in regional New South Wales.

Appearing on the Flow FM Country Viewpoint, internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian musician Craig Giles discussed the upcoming Lameroo Country Music Festival and how much he's looking forward to heading back to regional South Australia.

The Best Country Male Entertainer in A.C.M.L.A. People's Choice Awards from the year 2000 also discussed his Canada and Alaska cruise ship tours, his honorary plaque in Finlay and why he is known as 'Mr versatile'.

We speak with veterinarian and leader of the Liberal Party in the Legislative Council, Nicola Centofanti within her portfolio areas of agriculture, water, the River Murray and regional South Australia about a new duck hunting inquiry proposed by her opposite number, environment minister Susan Close. We also cover the Minister's comments on the impact of buybacks in the South Australian Murray under the Murray Darling Basin Plan, South Australia's incredible $17.3 billion farmgate earnings in the last reporting year, what return on that might come back to regional SA and tracking progress on a desalination plant for the Eyre Peninsula.