Impact of Regulation on Small Farms AFSA put in a submission to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into the impact of regulatory burden in Australian agriculture. (Access the link to download the full response paper at the bottom of the page). In our submission, we gave evidence of many examples of overly burdensome regulation stifling innovation […]
AFSA’s response to the Animal Industries Advisory Committee Discussion Paper
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance has issued its response to the Animal Industries Advisory Committee Discussion Paper. Issues in relation to agricultural planning schemes continually affect many of our farmer members and we welcome this opportunity to communicate these issues to the relevant authorities. Find our comments below and access the link to download the full response […]
Tasmanian Submission to Agricultural Competitiveness White Paper
We are a network of innovative, small to medium-sized primary producers from across Tasmania…
Investor State Dispute Clauses a Threat to Democracy and Sovereignty
9th April, 2014 In its submission to the Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, which is charged with investigating the proposed ‘Trade and Foreign Investment (Protecting the Public Interest) Bill 2014, AFSA issues a challenge to our country’s politicians: whose interests do you really represent? The current Federal government is considering the inclusion of […]
AFSA Submission to Senate Inquiry into Commission of Audit
Last December a Senate Inquiry was established to inquire into the secretive ‘Commission of Audit’, set up by Tony Abbott’s government shortly after asssuming office in September 2013. This Commission is operating in a non-transparent and largely unaccountable manner, with an apparent mandate to act as a de-facto ‘razor gang’, whose goal is to impose […]