From regional roads and rail through the recent biosecurity challenges to the farm labour workforce, the NSW Farmers Association president Xavier Martin shares with FlowFM listeners in southern NSW the organisation's areas of focus for the March state election.

The federal assistant minister for education joins us on FlowFM to talk about the way those already working in remote areas or those accepting offers to work there can have their higher education study debt covered by the federal government to support them relocating to those regions.

The former head of the Australian Christian Lobby speaks with FlowFM about why he's running as an independent at the head of a voting ticket supported by the fledgling reborn Family First Party. Lyle addresses a host of policy topics from gender ideology in schools to the World Economic Forum's Davos event this week, measures taken in the name of COVID-19 and whether a royal commission is needed, and what his party is offering southern NSW regional voters. He also speaks about the demise of Fred Nile's Christian Democrats party and what that means for the Christian voting constituency in NSW this election.

Note: as disclosed in the interview, the interviewer worked with the past incarnation of the Family First party from 2006 to 2017.

The Australian wool market finished 2022 on a high and is off to a flyer in its first two weeks, we look into the driving factors including Chinese demand with Andrew Partridge from Michell Wool.

Minister for Regional Transport and Roads Sam Farraway speaks with southern NSW FlowFM listeners about a road repair fund with applications closing today, Friday 20 January 2023, as well as responding to shadow minister John Graham's comments regarding a potential state takeover or reclassification of council roads. We discuss betterment - 'building back better' - flood or disaster affected roads and a funding boost for a cattle underpass scheme.

South Australian Riverland winegrape growers are battling very poor returns for their grapes amid a triple-whammy of challenges from China's trade restrictions to freight costs and, for a select number of growers, inundation from recent flooding. We speak with Riverland Wine executive officer Lyndall Rowe about the welcome injection of $100,000 from the South Australian government to help the industry chart a 10-year blueprint for better outcomes for one the nation's most significant wine growing regions.

The State Opposition has welcomed the easing of restrictions on recreational boating, fishing and the like on the River Murray but says it will pursue answers on how, when and why the government made the decisions to impose restrictions in the first place given their impact on local tourism and tourism operators.

After visiting South Australia's Riverland and mid-Murray on Thursday and en route to lower Murray communities on Friday, the federal leader of the Liberal Party and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton speaks with FlowFM listeners again about making good on his pledge to them to visit late in 2022. We discuss building back better roads, bridges and levee banks to mitigate future flooding, the Liberal Party's position on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and on celebrating Australia Day on 26 January.

The NSW Irrigators Council's CEO talks about the recent survey in a stretch of the Darling River that failed to find a single Murray cod as an opportunity to rethink water recovery as the pre-eminent means of environmental restoration in the Murray-Darling Basin.

The shadow roads minister says the NSW government has poorly handled the policy of signage before encountering mobile speed cameras, contrasts the two policies announced by the Labor Opposition then Coalition Government this week to incentivise good driving behaviour - and calls for the release of a plan to take back some regional council roads into state ownership.