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THE Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Australia and Chile – announced today by Trade Minister The Hon Simon Crean MP – is comprehensive, covering all agricultural products including Chile’s most sensitive commodity, sugar. “It’s a landmark deal,” National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President David Crombie said. “It establishes Australia’s first FTA with a country in Latin […]
27 May 2008
TONIGHT’S Federal Budget addresses major challenges Australian agriculture must overcome to provide food for Australians and the world – a changing climate, chronic skills shortages, inefficient transport and communications networks, and water reform – according to the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF). “This Budget combines essential spending on building capacity across key areas that hamper economic […]
13 May 2008
THE breakdown in quarantine procedures – exposed by the recent equine influenza (EI) outbreak – threatens Australia’s pest and disease-free status, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) warned today, as the nation’s peak farm body called on all levels of Government to address a glaring lack of confidence in the system. In its submission to the […]
12 May 2008
The NFF’s May 2008 submission to the Quarantine and Biosecurity Review highlights failures in proactively protecting Australia’s shores from pests and diseases. It asserts that transparent, science-based quarantine and biosecurity that protects Australia’s environment, biodiversity and agricultural systems is vital.
The NFF’s 9 May 2008 submission responds to a series of rules being developed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission regardind Water Markets.
Tags: Environment
9 May 2008
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 […]
1 May 2008
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.
Tags: Workforce
The NFF’s April 2008 Submission to the Garnaut Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Discussion Paper highlights the need for voluntary, incentivised transitional mechanisms. While ‘impractical’ for agriculture to be covered within an ETS, the NFF reinforces the importance of avoiding perverse outcomes for food production.
Tags: Environment
24 April 2008
WITH the April Westpac-NFF Commodity Index recording global commodity prices 25% above this time last year, and Australian farmers gearing up for a bumper winter season, new fears have surfaced about a lack of labour to meet the expected surge in production. “Grain and cotton markets continued their climb as governments around the world attempt […]
23 April 2008
The NFF’s April 2008 submission offers a realistic way forward for reducing the chronic over-regulation of the chemicals and plastics sector, which has had an unjustifiable cost-impost on agriculture and undermined risk-management principles by creating confusion about compliance and jurisdictional authority.
Tags: Farm Business
18 April 2008
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