The draft HSRA Review report makes recommendations for moving from a risk assessment based on mortality, to one focused on animal welfare. The NFF supports the move to an animal welfare-based indicator, as recommended by the 2018 review into the export of live sheep to the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere summer (the McCarthy Review).
The NFF strongly supports the National Biosecurity Strategy (NBS) as a framework to align priorities and actions to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity system. The proposed reform agenda presents a range of initiatives...
The NFF does not support the APVMA proposal to declare second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) as Restricted Chemical Products (RCPs) unless continuing access to SGARs for primary producers is guaranteed...
The NFF calls on the Australian Government to ensure that the proposed capital gains tax (CGT) changes in the Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 1) Bill 2026 do not undermine the ongoing viability, productivity and...

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