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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.

... we also discuss the NSW government's handling of its obligations under the Murray-Darling Basin Plan - 'moving from one foot to the other' according to Mrs Dalton - and the terrible stories of homelessness and impacts of housing shortages in the electorate of Murray, as we build up to the 25 March state election.

... and we discuss transparency on ministerial travel through a private member's bill South Australia's first One Nation MLC is moving today. Sarah Game MLC gives her initial reaction to a state government push for an inquiry into duck hunting in South Australia, the most permissive state in the nation for the practice and with Victoria the only two states that permit duck hunting at all. We also discuss the State Opposition's decision this week to join One Nation in opposing the Premier's push for a Voice to Parliament for indigenous South Australians as the detail emerged on what is being proposed.

A recent bespoke set of mobile black spot funding was to address gaps in funding by the former Coalition government and was pledged before the election, the Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tells Flow listeners, as another major funding round looms that listeners can submit their views on where the major black spots are.
Meanwhile, the federal government has given dating app providers some time to clean up the safety risks in the sector before it considers further action, as the minister queries why some safety features are hidden behind a paywall.

In February and March 2023 South Australians will have an opportunity to try out - via augmented reality - what an insect-based meal might look like, on these dates:

• Tonsley: 11am-2pm, Tuesday 28 February 2023. The Tonsley Pod, Tonsley Innovation District
• Willunga Farmers’ Market: 8am-11.30am, Saturday 4 March 2023. Willunga High School, Main Road, Willunga
• Adelaide Farmers’ Market: 8:30am-12pm, Sunday 5 March 2023. Adelaide Showground, Rose Terrace, Wayville
• Mount Gambier: 10am-1pm, 2pm-4pm, Monday 6 March 2023. The Riddoch Arts and Cultural Centre

We discuss with PhD candidate Ishka Bless how it works, and why the universities are exploring insect diets for human health and environmental benefits - and why what we call insect-based food matters.

We speak with the federal shadow minister for health and ageing on the labour and housing shortages in regional Australia and the potential impact on the health workforce in aged care, particularly nursing. We review the Royal Commission on Aged Care recommendations that may not have contemplated a labour shortage and discuss the South Australian senator's visit to the Yorke Peninsula. The Riverland resident and former irrigator also hits out at claims from the South Australian Labor water minister that voluntary buybacks had not negatively impacted river communities.

The South Australian water minister wants to take a united front to the Murray Darling Basin Ministers' meeting on Friday and crticised the South Australian Liberal Opposition for not backing voluntary buybacks as a means to return water to the River Murray environment. We listen to comments earlier on Tuesday morning from Riverland resident and former irrigator, now Liberal senator Anne Ruston, on the impact buybacks had, discuss progress on securing desalination for the Eyre Peninsula, and a new joint federal-state voucher program to help flood affected SA Murray residents remove waste from their premises.

The Mildura Rural City Council has floated as many as 14 possible future rating proposals for revenue in future, one of which would hike farmers' council rates to help deliver rate relief to those living in Mildura. The state MP Jade Benham encouraged ratepayers to have their say on the proposals, and reflected on Labor premier Daniel Andrews clocking 3,000 days in office, earning him the right to a bronze statue at the state administration centre under a Kennett-era policy commitment that has immortalised former premiers.