The South Australian tourism minister joins FlowFM from the Yorke Peninsula after the third Malinauskas Government regional community cabinet meeting in 6 months since Labor returned to office at the March election. Zoe Bettison talks about the region's great tourism assets, the resilience in the sector's domestic demand, challenges growing the international tourism numbers post-pandemic, selling SA to target international markets and encouraging South Australians to pursue careers in tourism.

Jo Hall the CEO of Woolproducers Australia speaks with Flow about the latest advocacy the industry's peak body has undertaken for the nation's wool producers including on sheep traceability, a consultation on the Wool Declaration (more information here) and encourages farmers to report livestock theft after 700 sheep were taken from Victoria's goldfields between October and February, detected recently by the farmer and reported to Victoria Police.

Episode3.net's Matt Dalgleish goes through the latest data on export markets, the herd rebuild for cattle and sheep producers and which competitors overseas have fallen out of love with sheep production. We also discuss how the live export market is travelling and the price correction in the saleyards for cattle.

Primary Industries, Forest Industries and Regional Development minister Clare Scriven joins FlowFM from Wallaroo, Yorke Peninsula where the third Community Cabinet meeting in regional SA in less than a year is occurring to talk about a new regional housing initiative. With regional labour in short supply, South East SA based Minister Scriven describes how the housing initiative is targeted at first at essential workers like health, police and other emergency services staff but a new Office for Regional Housing will be established within Renewal SA to work with the local government sector on bringing more land to market for housing. We also discuss the resumption of community cabinets in the regions that ceased under the Marshall Liberal government and the value of ministers and departmental heads hearing first-hand from locals and their representatives on the issues that matter to them.

Those wanting to reach out from regional SA to engage with the new office for regional housing within Renewal SA can do so at http://officeregionalhousing.sa.gov.au

The Regional Australia Institute this week highlighted the Yorke and Clare Valley combined region as a job vacancy hotspot rising 33 per cent on the latest monthly data and as the Malinauskas Labor Government's cabinet visits Wallaroo to listen to the local community, we spoke with the local MP Fraser Ellis about local labour and housing demands and a disturbing incident this week at the Wallaroo hospital

The MP for Flinders covering the Eyre Peninsula says the ball is now in SA Water's court on selecting a desalination plant for water security to relieve a time-limited Uley Basin, after the Marshall Liberal government appointed site selection committee wrapped up its work. We discuss the recent interview on FlowFM by the local government minister Geoff Brock and clear up the history of what the Local Government Association and sector handed over to the Electoral Commission of SA to do in what the shadow minister Sam Telfer describes as a shambles of a process that has seen 43 councillors and 3 mayors disqualified due to disclosure failures.

Agricultural analyst Sean Hickey shares the latest data on the grain and canola harvest, easing input costs, whether exports to China are lifting and more in a comprehensive wrap for the cropping sector.

We discuss with the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Banking Association, Anna Bligh, the commercial reasons banks are closing regional branches, whether they will self-impose a moratorium like the Commonwealth Bank have on branch closures as another political inquiry occurs and the growing role Australia Post is playing in banking services. We explore whether Australia Post alter its shopfronts to provide more confidentiality for regional bank customers and why bank customers are entitled to vote with their feet if another bank or other institution is offering better services in their town.

Some voices in the Ceduna community have expressed concern that anti-social behaviour has been on the rise and one of those is the former mayor, Alan Suter who outlines his concerns particularly for women and children from indigenous communities.

South Australian local government minister Geoff Brock navigates the history and current situation where 3 mayors and 43 other councillors' November elections have been vacated and, while supplementary elections are currently underway for unfilled positions at November's polls, some ratepayers will have to vote for a 3rd time potentially to fill freshly vacated positions due to a disclosure compliance failure.

A statement from premier Peter Malinauskas on the issue is available here.