In Western Australia (WA), the Animal Welfare Act 2002 (the Act) and its accompanying regulations provide the legal framework for ensuring all animals in WA have appropriate standards of care. While the NFF supports the intent of the Act to promote and protect the welfare of animals, we believe that amendments are required to improve the operation of the Act and to provide for the management of livestock as a distinct animal class. It is also important that the Act provides for the appropriate enforcement of the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines.
The NFF favours the implementation of a Plan, that gives equal weight to environmental, social, and economic outcomes. The NFF believes that there are several improvements which need to be made to make it fairer and...
In the current context, the farm sector is opposed to formalising scope 3 emissions reporting unless and until we can clearly understand the impacts of the shared cost and time commitment of the likely compliance burden...
NFF has detailed a list of priority issues and concerns impacting farmers and agriculture that we would like to remain engaged in. These are complex and require a continuation of bilateral and multilateral work outside...
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