Campaigns

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…

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 ...
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2021 National Committee Report

President’s Report Financial Report Membership Report Legal Defence Fund Farming on Other People’s Land (FOOPL) AFSA in the Global Food ...
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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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Fair food for all: AFSA response to the NSW Inquiry into Food Production and Supply

Since we first published the People’s Food Plan in 2013, AFSA has continued to gather democratically to listen to the views of farmers and allies across the country and around the world to continue to deepen and strengthen our positions on what constitutes the most socially just and ecologically sound food and agriculture systems. AFSA […]

AFSA categorically rejects proposals to expand intensive aquaculture into Commonwealth waters

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) categorically rejects proposals to expand intensive aquaculture into Commonwealth waters. We need a radical paradigm shift away from Blue Economy to Blue Justice in fisheries, which is crucial for climate justice, encompassing economic, social, and environmental justice. The 2019 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services reported […]

AFSA responds to the ACT Capital Food and Fibre Strategy

AFSA recently responded to the call for submissions to the ACT Capital Food and Fibre Strategy, which will “be a roadmap to delivering social, environmental and economic benefits based on secure, climate-resilient food and fibre production across in the ACT; and respond to the need to mitigate climate challenges via adaptation and diversification. It […]

A Licence to Sell Lettuce? ASFA Submission to FSANZ Proposal

For three years FSANZ has been working on a proposal to more tightly regulate the production and sale of berries, leafy vegetables, and melons after several outbreaks of listeria, e coli, and salmonella from large monocultures. AFSA has provided feedback from the beginning on the need to approach any changes with a scale-appropriate lens […]

Protecting farmers and preserving farm land: Submission on the Protections within the Victorian Planning Framework

In October 2021 the Victorian Legislative Council tasked the Environment and Planning Committee to inquire into and report on: “the adequacy of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and Victorian planning framework in relation to planning and heritage protection”. Particular terms of reference were outlined for the Committee to address and AFSA provides its submission […]