Cr Brown also talks about the infrastructure requirements to attract food and beverage manufacturers to rural towns and councils in the Rural Councils Victoria membership

The Quambatook Victoria grower spoke with Flow about the need for state and federal agriculture ministers to get on with getting farm workers in across the nation, with Queensland arguably already missing out in the grains industry - and the risk delay may pose to farm safety if farmers are left with no choice but to keep working around the clock without the labour.

FlowFM's neighbour at Roseworthy, AGT, paid a visit in the form of Haydn Kuchel to talk about the announcements this week that AGT had won the tender to commercially develop previously publicly developed durum wheat germplasm in Australia - and shared the exciting news about the new Calibre variety with seed demand already running hot

Rikki chats on the Morning Show with the Victorian senator about the movement of Australians from cities to regions and how, among other things, migration and telecommunications can capitalise on that movement and healthy years on the land

A new initiative to lure food and beverage manufacturing businesses to rural towns in regional Victoria is underway, trying to make investigating and deciding whether to relocate as easy as possible

NSW MLC Rev. Fred Nile says whilst he welcomes the federal government Saturday 28 August announcement of a COVID-19 indemnity scheme for employers if workers suffer adverse impacts from vaccination, it is a copy of his NSW Bill to achieve the same result and he will press on with his bill at the state level

On Saturday 28 August federal health minister Greg Hunt announced a new scheme sought by the peak employer group to clarify legal indemnity should someone vaccinated via a workplace program suffer adverse health impacts. The AiGroup had sought these changes and Tony Melville talks on Flow what it will mean in the workplace.

Mr McBride also talks about advocacy for truck drivers and South-East SA residents negatively impacted by COVID-19 restrictions that did not seem to adequately factor the challenges regional residents face

Immediate past president of the Local Government Association of South Australia, and chair of the Eyre Peninsula LGA, mayor Telfer talks with Flow about the challenges Councils face in funding their infrastructure among record regional tourism demand

From SA's sudden backflip (for now) on imposing mandatory vaccination on Vic/SA border bubble community members to enter SA, to trucks turned around to get a negative COVID-19 test before entering the state - cross-border chaos has kept local MPs busy