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The state's longest-serving MP and Legislative Councillor says the government will honour the wishes of the majority in the Council to sit in February, but can not recall in his decades in the Council that it has sat before a state election without the House of Assembly doing so - the 'lower house' has been adjourned until May, which the state treasurer says is no different to what Labor did in the last two terms of government

Federal funding for deer control in his electorate needs to be doubled, the member for the SA south-east seat of Barker says, and the state government needs to rethink its approach on culling fur seals in the Coorong and on mandating vaccination, Mr Pasin discusses with Rikki on Flow

Independent senator Rex Patrick lined up Tumby Bay Mayor Telfer and the federal member for Grey Rowan Ramsey in a Senate adjournment speech on Tuesday night - Flow gives Sam Telfer a right of reply, also covering the Eyre Peninsula's freight needs, when Sam Telfer will resign as mayor to contest Flinders, and some thoughts on incumbent Liberal MP's valedictory comments on Tuesday

Flooding has hit some farmers hard in New South Wales and state and federal governments are responding with support measures and a survey from DPIE, while the federal pause on migration hopefully won't extend beyond the initial fortnight, the NSW Farmers vice president Xavier Martin tells Flow listeners

The Victorian Nationals Leader reacts from Parliament House in Melbourne the Wednesday morning that state Agriculture Minister Mary-Ann Thomas announced long-awaited reforms on farm trespass will be tabled on the final sitting day of 2021 and debated in the 2022 election year

On the Morning Show, Wayne discusses the recent contrast between fast-tracking a battery project for the SA energy grid, but the Energy Minister's slower reaction to the need for farmers to access fertiliser from a project within his own state electorate