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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
NATIONAL Farmers’ Federation (NFF) Vice-President Charles Burke will today present to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC’s) Grocery Pricing Inquiry between 1-5pm at Rydges Lakeside, London Circuit, in Canberra. The NFF will assert that consumers – feeling the pinch of rising food bills – are entitled to know what is driving higher grocery prices. […]
8 April 2008
TODAY the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) released the first in a series of targeted initiatives to fix a shortfall of 100,000 employees across the farm sector – its Workforce from Abroad Employment Scheme. “This builds on our broader strategy under the Labour Shortage Action Plan (released last week) by specifically profiling and targeting horticulture, which […]
7 April 2008
AUSTRALIAN farmers – across all states – are being asked to throw open their gates to a city family for a day in May as part of breaking down barriers to metropolitan understanding about modern farm practices. Farm Day provides unique hands-on experiences and insight, along with the ability to answer all those “where does […]
The NFF’s April 2008 submission to the Senate Select Committee on Agriculture and Related Industries notes that fertiliser and chemical prices have more than doubled over the last 12 months – eating into farmer margins and coming on top of mounting costs – forcing farmers to adjust their production systems, often at the expense of […]
Tags: Farm Business
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