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Window Closing on Global Trade Reform


National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President Peter Corish – in Washington lobbying for urgent and significant agricultural trade reform in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) – has enlisted the influential American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) to call for an ambitious outcome from the Doha round of WTO negotiations, particularly in the area of agricultural market access. […]

24 May 2006


Activists Targeting Kids: 'Out of Touch' and 'Out of Line'


Undertakings by animal rights group Voiceless that its controversial Animal Club program and website – which targets 3,000,000 children in 9,000 primary and secondary schools across Australia – would consider withdrawing links to radical adult-like websites, have proven disingenuous. “Last week, Brian Sherman (founder of Voiceless) advised me he would look at removing the links […]

16 May 2006


NFF Mourns the Passing of Rick Farley


The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has been rocked by the premature passing of Rick Farley, aged just 53. As Executive Director Mr Farley led the NFF from 1988 to 1995. This was a revolutionary time for the organisation, where Mr Farley’s contribution saw the NFF and the Australian Conservation Foundation jointly lobby the Hawke Government […]

15 May 2006


Fuel Credit Reforms Will Leave Farmers Out of Pocket


The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has voiced serious concerns over the proposed reforms to the fuel tax credit system, currently being considered by Parliament, which will significantly impact on the cash flow of many farmers leaving them out of pocket while waiting to claim their fuel excise rebate. “The proposed changes outlined in the ‘Fuel […]

12 May 2006


NFF 2006 Board Elections


With National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President Peter Corish completing his fourth consecutive one-year term in the NFF top job – the maximum allowable under the NFF Constitution, he will not be standing for re-election in 2006. Nominations for NFF 2006 Board positions have now closed. The NFF received two nominations for President: Mr Allan Burgess […]


Farmers Emerge as Australia's Frontline Environmentalists


Today the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has announced that farmers are planting more trees for environmental reasons than they were a decade ago – with some 150 seedlings a year now being planted per farm solely for conservation purposes. “The ABS figures prove what we’ve been saying for sometime,” National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President […]

10 May 2006


Budget Delivers NFF Initiatives for Growth


The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) has welcomed Federal Budget tax reform enabling young farmers to bring fresh approaches and new technologies to the family farm, investment spending on regional road and rail networks to deliver vital transport efficiencies between farm gate to final destination, and on-farm water initiatives to ensure the sustainability of the Murray-Darling […]

9 May 2006


WTO Must Deliver Trade Access for Farmers by July


National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) President Peter Corish has wrapped up his trade talks in Geneva where he has been advocating on behalf of Australian farmers for a commercially significant outcome from the Doha round of World Trade Organisation (WTO) negotiations. “As an Australian farmer and, indeed, as a Cairns Group member along with numerous other […]

4 May 2006


Voiceless Agenda Infiltrates Classrooms


Animal activist group Voiceless has launched a major propaganda campaign targeting 3,000,000 children in 9,000 schools across Australia under the guise of a ‘caring for animals’ project. However, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) today warned parents and called on governments to ban special interest agendas from un-vetted entrée to classrooms. The Animal Club website (www.animalclub.org.au […]


Broadband Wireless for the Bush a Good Idea


Last year the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) welcomed the Telstra commitment to deliver a commercial UMTS 850 wireless mobile phone and broadband data network that will deliver “the same or better coverage and services” than the current CDMA network. “A broadband wireless network that covers the existing CDMA footprint and provides access to a mix […]

2 May 2006


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