The LDF assists AFSA’s national campaigns by employing legal research and support services. The work of the LDF improves the overall effectiveness of AFSA’s lobbying and public advocacy efforts, but the LDF does not itself perform lobbying or advocacy in its role.
Please see Legal Defence Fund News below to read about AFSA’s past and present campaigns.
The LDF is also continuously developing and implementing the marketing and social media aspects of fundraising campaigns to raise funds for the LDF to ensure its long-term financial viability.
Legal Defence Fund News…

Submission to the Independent Review of the Agvet Chemicals regulatory system
In December, the federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment released the draft report of an indpendent panel reviewing ...
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2020 National Committee Report
President’s Report 2020 has been a year like none other in living memory. For Australians, the year commenced with the ...
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2019 President’s Report
What a delicious year of growing and eating and winning and celebrating it’s been for AFSA! And yet while the ...
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Industrial ag’s spurious biosecurity claims revealed
AFSA and our partners recently negotiated a streamlined application process for pastured pig and poultry production... however, during the final ...
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MAJOR WIN FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS VICTORIA ANNOUNCES PLANNING REFORMS
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is celebrating a win for small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers – and everyone’s ...
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Response to the Proposed Draft Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Poultry
View AFSA's entire submission here. The current review of the Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals – ...
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Poultry Welfare Reforms Fact Sheet
The Codes for animal welfare for poultry are being reviewed for the first time in over 15 years. The result ...
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AFSA calls out biased reporting on Victorian planning reforms
Peter Hunt, a Weekly Times reporter, has treated the concerns of Victoria’s pastured livestock farmers over proposed planning reforms with ...
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NSW Planning Reform Campaign Materials
1. PRINT THE PETITION to collect signatures in your community and secure the future of free-range farming in NSW! 2. DISTRIBUTE THE ...
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MEDIA RELEASE: The future of free-range farming endangered by NSW Planning review
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is calling on the NSW Government to secure a future that encourages regenerative farmers ...
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