Last Wednesday night, we held an online Solidarity Session inviting farmers and eaters to tell us what they’d like to include in the revised Peoples’ Food Plan. The original Peoples’ Food Plan was initially developed in response to the Government’s National Food Plan in 2012-2013. While much of the Plan is still relevant today, we believe it […]
AFSA responds to an Inquiry on Australian Government’s application of the UNDRIP in Australia
In March, the Federal Government’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Senate Committee announced a call for submissions on the Application of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Australia. First Peoples’ sovereignty must be considered at the core of food sovereignty, and so AFSA submitted a response to Inquiry noting […]
AFSA is expanding: Join our National Committee or sub-committees and working groups
Join our team: AFSA National Committee We are seeking nominations from people interested in joining our National Committee. We have a vacancy after the resignation of Vice President Nick Holliday, who is facing an even higher workload than usual in the face of major climate events impacting the farm. So while we are looking for […]
AFSA response to the National Biosecurity Strategy
AFSA has responded to the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment’s National Biosecurity Strategy. We express concern with the Strategy’s limitations which focus heavily on surveillance and control, and less on prevention of biosecurity threats in agriculture, particularly through continued practice of intensive livestock. We also flag that Australia’s current colonial agricultural […]
Help AFSA Pay the Rent
Pay the Rent is an organisation based in the Kulin Nation, Victoria, doing crucial work in bringing First Nations and non-First Nations people together to raise funding for grassroots campaigns or causes that protect the rights of First Nations Peoples. As farmers, we understand the significance of working on stolen land, particularly with regard to […]
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