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A household bug stalled the Victorian Nationals' MP for the western Victorian seat visiting towns in Lowan but Emma Kealy was back on the hustings on Thursday heading to Jeparit and talked about the latest illicit drug data in regional Victoria, heroin injecting rooms and the allegations within the Victorian ALP about harassment of women like Kashuliya Vaghela MLC and the late senator Kimberley Kitching

The incumbent Liberal Party MP in an electorate radically reshaped to now draw incumbent Frome independent Geoff Brock MP into the race for Stuart responds as minister for energy and resources to Labor criticisms on power prices, unemployment and the Opposition's costings on hydrogen and for the election, and lists road improvement achievements in Stuart over the last term in office. Mr Van Holst Pellekaan declines to be drawn on his leadership aspirations post-election within the Liberal Party.

Seeking to carry on where retiring incumbent Liberal MP Peter Treloar left off, Sam Telfer highlights the need for better protection for farmers faced with mineral exploration, improving infrastructure for farmers to get their product to market, addresses the serious health needs within the electorate and commits to local road improvements not secured during this term of government.

The Family First candidate most likely of any to secure a seat in State Parliament after Saturday March 19's poll says religious freedom is the top of his agenda, whilst cost of living pressures driven largely by the oil price spike he says the SA Government can help with by containing its debt and spending - and he will introduce a bill to give the next government an austere helping hand. Tom also goes through how voting for the Upper House works - and that it could take until late April to know who the 11 new Legislative Councillors will be.

Labor's long-standing Giles MP speaks with Flow about the communities' needs in the north-east of South Australia in outback communities when it comes to restoring roads and improving healthy water supply, health services and the importance of mining to the region

SA Best's candidate wants the Australian Defence Force to locate a battalion in Whyalla to support the local community and jobs, whilst also taking aim at both Labor's policy on hydrogen power and the Liberals' commitment on investigating desalination in the Upper Spencer Gulf, saying both will be bad for the cuttlefish. As the family proprietor of what he claims is SA's last remaining video store, Tom talks about his track record in business as an electrical supplier.

The independent candidate for Narungga says someone must be using WD40 to shift rusted voters in her direction for the Saturday March 19 state poll, with the independent-held seat potentially a king-maker with multiple independents standing for re-election and neither major party possibly able to form majority government. Diana talks about the farming and mining conflicts on the Yorke Peninsula particularly centring on the Rex Minerals project south of Ardrossan, preserving natural assets and adaptation to climate change

Meat and Livestock Australia's manager for market information Stephen Bignell catches up with Flow listeners on the early March movements on sheep, cattle and a surprise surge in goat processing numbers.

South Australian barley growers gained strongest this week in part due to the blockage of grains getting out of the Black Sea due to the war between Russia and Ukraine, as Market Check's Tess Walch runs through the factors that will drive bullish to bearish outlooks for Australian grain growers

Human cases of JEV have been detected in South Australia after first detections in regional Victoria and NSW principally concerning piggeries, but Dr Lease reassures listeners - you're safe to eat bacon.