Monitoring of electricity supply in the National Electricity Market discussion paper
The NFF’s submission supports the need to better monitor the prices, profits and margins in the supply of electricity in the National Electricity Market (NEM). A failure in policy, regulatory design and competition in the electricity sector has contributed to excessive electricity prices for Australian farmers. To that effect, a transparent and robust analytical framework […]
Exposure Draft – Native Title Legislation Amendment Bill 2018
The NFF’s submission responds to the exposure draft of amendments to the Native Title Act (Cth) 1993. The NFF notes schedules 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 and 9, and provides particular response to schedule 3, a vehicle which will undermine certainty and needs to be examined far more rigorously from a policy perspective.
Farm Household Allowance Review
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the Review of the Farm Household Allowance (FHA). The Review is an important opportunity to collect feedback and data on the effectiveness of the FHA which has now been in place since July 2014. In making this submission, the NFF would highlight […]
Consultation on Default Market Offer Price
The NFF submission supports measures to improve transparency in the market for residential and small businesses as recommended in the ACCC Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry Report. Retail offers have been opaque and confusing, preventing customers from selecting the best market offer. People in regional and rural Australia already pay significant higher power prices than those […]
Consultation on efficiency measures: Additional criteria for on-farm projects
The NFF’s submission raises two concerns: the consultation process and the questions related to additional criteria. The consultation is critical process in addressing concerns related to the implementation of the 450 GL efficiency measures. However, to date, the consultation process has been inadequate, superficial, and has not addressed community concern, but rather has fostered community […]
Underwriting New Generation Investments consultation Paper
The NFF’s submission supports the development of a program to underwrite new generation investments to address market failure and improve competition in the electricity market. The program follows one of the many recommendations from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) Retail Electricity Pricing Inquiry report. The NFF supports a well-designed program consistent with the […]
Select Committee on moratorium on the cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) food crops in South Australia.
The NFF believes that it is critical for the future development of food and fibre to make regulation flexible enough to enable innovation. Access to gene technology would allow farmers to analyse their production and marketing options and to determine whether organic, conventional or gene technology modes of production (or a combination of these methods) […]
Draft Report on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan: Five-year assessment
The NFF’s 10 October 2018 submission responds to the Productivity Commission’s draft recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan. These recommendations are critical moving forward into the implementation phase of the Plan. The NFF broadly supports recommendations in the report, but caution is needed to extended deadlines of water […]
Potential ACCC “class exemption” for collective bargaining
While the NFF considers markets to be the primary arbiter of agricultural supply and demand, government regulation is needed to enable competition in parts of the agricultural supply chain where competition did not previously exist. Consequently, the NFF considers a “class exemption” for collective bargaining a potential way to address the structural inequalities in bargaining […]
APVMA consultation on representative crops and extrapolation principles for risk assessment and data waivers.
The NFF recognises that there are initiatives in place in attempt to remedy the lack of incentives under the current Federal mandatory regulations for minor use permits. The NFF is particularly supportive of the work of the Agricultural Chemical Access Priorities Forum, which has resulted in the APVMA, government and industry working together to establish […]