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Newly appointed assistant shadow minister in the Dutton shadow ministry speaks with Flow listeners about his focus in the roads, rail, ports, airports and other infrastructure portfolios as the federal Liberal Party's spokesperson, touching on the Murray Basin and Inland Rail projects and upgrading the Dukes and Sturt Highways in South Australia

The shadow minister says birthing services' suspension at Gawler Hospital highlights the challenges faced in regional health and the inequity between country and city people's access to health services, in a discussion about the Barossa Hospital promised by the Liberals in 2001 and Labor's pledges on Limestone Coast health in the south east of South Australia before the March 2022 state election

The member for Riverina and former Nationals leader talks about the importance of domestic bipartisanship when it comes to international relations, the challenges presented to local farmers and councils from a wetter-than-usual season on the land - and some commentary on Hume football including his unique interest in the MCUE Goannas

The member for Flinders covering western South Australia including the Eyre Peninsula and West Coast talks about water security for his electorate and growing regional population through improved access to housing and childcare services.

The Liberal party leader in South Australia talks about Eyre Peninsula's water security, the Murray-Darling Basin Plan and a new independent commissioner plan from SA Labor, and his open door to conservative-leaning country independents holding 3 regional South Australian seats.

With the Varroa Mite threat to introduced bees essential for farm pollination now detected 400km from the Port of Newcastle at Narrabri - and Foot & Mouth disease now identified in the popular Australian tourist destination of Bali in Indonesia, the NSW Farmers president talks through the extent of biosecurity threats, and encourages Australians to work in agriculture and for policymakers not only to allow workers in to farms, but to tackle the supermarket duopoly cruelling investment in a tight margin vegetable sector now causing 'broccoli shock'

Irrigators are unhappy with general security allocations being as low as they are, acknowledging that carryover requires headspace in storages upstream to be managed to maintain farmers' entitlements. The NSW Irrigators Council CEO speaks with Flow listeners about the challenge of returning 450GL to South Australia in the current Murray Darling Basin Plan due date of 2024 when, among other things, many 'constraints' remain such as easements to allow intermittent flooding for water delivery downstream.

Fresh from visits to Ceduna in western South Australia and Kununurra in the Western Australian Kimberley region, the new social services minister outlines why the Albanese government is dismantling the Coalition's cashless debit card by year's end, and what it will replace it with by way of programs and other initiatives on a voluntary basis, not using a private operator to handle social services clients' personal payments

... and the local MP in the western Victorian seat of Lowan addresses the Friday 1 July announcement of a Monitor appointed for the Horsham Rural City Council after recent controversy.

The Nationals leader and deputy opposition leader David Littleproud makes the case for modern nuclear energy generation to be included in Australia's future energy mix, doubles down on his concerns about the Australian Workers Union's role in the challenges faced by the Agriculture Visa the former government created - and talks about a cost-recovery model in biosecurity to permanently resource efforts to preserve Australian agriculture faced with increasing threats from incoming material from offshore