Former senator Xenophon is 'getting the band back together' after all - with independent senator Stirling Griff at least, but isn't looking to align with SA Best's Frank Pangallo and Connie Bonaros MLC - at this stage - after its 19 March 2022 election flop. The River Murray advocate responds to comments from NSW Farmers president James Jackson that the Murray Darling Basin Plan is a 'dog's breakfast' and that lower Murray concerns about environmental water getting out the Murray Mouth are 'rubbish' whilst the National Farmers Federation want to abandon the push for 450 gigalitres to reach South Australia.

Attending the Northern Territory Cattlemen's conference, Angus talks with Flow listeners in south-eastern Australia about live exports and the latest developments in the cattle and sheep markets in Australia.

Andrew was in awe of the public amenities in Nhill, western Victoria as he reports in for Flow's Country Viewpoint program from Ballarat about the latest global developments for Australia's wheat, barley, canola and other croppers

Its a different perspective in Italy, Steven's first overseas trip in 2 years, with Italians riveted by the Russia-Ukraine conflict and living with COVID-10, not pursuing - as China has, with poor recent results, a 'COVID-zero' policy.

The Northern Victoria MLC representing Derryn Hinch's Justice Party wants politicians to lead from the front on acceptable standards of behaviour and respect towards others in workplaces, hoping it will filter down into Victorian workplaces across the state.

Australia's farmers need fuel security in the absence of adequate on-shore storage, the VFF president Emma Germano says, which could mean metropolitan residents might need to ration fuel, car pool or be incentivised to use public transport more so there's enough diesel for farmers to feed the nation and a world with gloomy logistical and 2022 crop prospects

... and child care availability on the Yorke Peninsula. Ex-Liberal, now independent Ellis says he will introduce a private members' bill to give effect to the recommendations of a select committee that he and fellow re-elected independent Geoff Brock proposed.

Re-elected with a thumping majority, South East SA MP Nick McBride has thrown his hat into the Liberal leadership ring after ousted Premier Steven Marshall resigned, and says the positions he took over his first term have been vindicated by his own result and the party's performance in the Saturday March 19 election.

The NSW Farmers association president says the Dungowan or Mole River dams - or raising the Wyangala Dam wall - have hellish prospects contrasted with the federal government's remarkable $5bn federal election pledge to build a dam to open up 60,000 Ha of irrigated agriculture at Hell's Gate north west of a marginal electorate in Townsville, Qld. Mr Jackson describes the Murray Darling Basin Plan as a 'dog's breakfast', says there's no need to mothball Deniliquin and Griffith 'for the environment' and that the perspective of some on the South Australian Murray is 'rubbish'.

The MP representing the lower Murray and Murray Bridge region in the electorate of Hammond is awaiting the counting between himself for the Liberal Party, the independent Airlie Keen and Labor's Belinda Owens showing a close race between he and Keen but Mr Pederick questions whether the ECSA should be running himself vs 2nd placed Owens. The Hammond MP responds to overlapping federal Liberal MP for Barker Tony Pasin's call for a review into the SA Liberals' party operations and election campaigning after the catastrophic state election loss for the now one-term government.