Mr Pasin says the federal budget could contain a significant new spending initiative on improving mobile phone and digital connectivity in the bush, if he and fellow regional Liberal-National MPs have had their way with Treasury. The member for Barker covering the SA Murray also talks about brought-forward funding to prepare river communities including Swan Reach, Morgan and Berri for higher flooding levels for better water management of inflows (whilst having a crack at upstream states) - and says he wants Barker community groups to overload grants program applications for assistance recovering from COVID-19