Skilling Australia for the Future: Submission
The NFF’s May 2008 submission to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment, and Workplace Relations underscores farming’s increasing needs for skills, training and capacity – with particular emphasis on the difficulties of training provision in rural and regional Australia.
ACCC Grocery Inquiry looms as ‘toothless tiger’
A PUBLIC outburst from Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Graeme Samuel that his Inquiry has failed to identify a “smoking gun” over grocery price gouging has left farmers and consumers bewildered by the ACCC’s apparent abrogation of responsibility, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) said today. “Media comments attributed to Mr Samuel today suggest […]