The South Australian Climate, Environment and Water Minister Dr Susan Close joins us on FlowFM to share the status environmentally of the River Murray flows out through the Murray Mouth, saying she has concerns about the impacts on the marine environment.

The Deputy Premier says the state government is looking for federal funding support to build a desalination plant on the southern Eyre Peninsula for water security, but acknowledges the Albanese Labor Government's timelines could be so long that a decision might need to be made sooner.

We also discuss with the Labor environment minister the discovery recently of the Western Whipbird in the Mallee region of Victoria-South Australia in the Ngarkat forest, a species that had previously been thought extinct.