Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

Fair food for all Australians

AFSA 2019 Work Plan!

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Strategic Retreat, 12-14 December 2018

The National Committee of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) met for its sixth strategic planning retreat on the traditional lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people, paying our respect to elders past and present.

We recognise the Original Owners and their role in caring for this land for over 60,000 years, their long history of growing food in ethical and ecologically-sound ways, and their careful maintenance of biodiversity before and since Invasion.

We acknowledge the ecological devastation caused by industrial agriculture since European invasion, and commit to ongoing conversations with communities of Indigenous Peoples. We again commit to supporting our members to seek stronger ties to Indigenous communities and work towards a day where everything we do is in connection and mutual accountability with community.

During our meeting, the Committee was delighted to have the support of the legendary Costa Georgiadis of ABC Gardening Australia fame. Members of our team joined Costa on a livestream to discuss AFSA’s crowdfunding campaign to publish Farming Democracy, eight stories of small-scale agroecological farmers of how they grow, process, and distribute their produce, including what it costs them and what they ultimately live on in an effort to bring radical transparency to the food system. We are even more delighted to have reached our target this morning, and look forward immensely to printing the book and launching it at AFSA’s inaugural Farm Day Out at Jonai Farms on 17 March 2019!

We have developed a plan to continue collecting the stories of the growing number of farmers producing and distributing food in ethical and ecologically-sound ways and publishing them on the AFSA website to show what is not only possible, but happening across Australia and the world.

We are grateful to the Victorian Government for its dedication to working with small-scale agroecological farmers to reform the planning provisions over these past three years in close collaboration with AFSA and our allies. The reforms better reflect the low-risk nature of these farming systems, and we look forward to working further with other states undertaking reform, in particular New South Wales, which is already in progress.

We’re also working to refute claims that those of us opposed to intensive livestock agriculture are ‘anti-science’ and the spurious claims that we can only feed the world with large-scale intensive agriculture systems, and to build an evidence base that in fact small-scale agroecological farming is the best way to feed a growing world population. Biosecurity is biological security and food and agriculture systems that are based on single species are not biologically secure.

We’re building a database of communities that have been fighting for their right to determine their own food & agriculture systems – fighting to stop the incursion of large, stinking sheds full of pigs and poultry. We’re analyzing the reasons some have won their battles to protect their air, water, soil, and communities, and why some have lost. And we’re seeking to connect communities fighting the same battles to share the winning strategies and support more in their struggles.

AFSA have heard from our members that they hold deep concerns about the over-use of agricultural chemicals such as glyphosate, and have made a submission to the current Senate Inquiry into the Independence of Regulatory Decisions Made by the APVMA (the agvet chemical regulator). We are committed to better understanding our members’ concerns and to developing a robust, evidence-based position on the use of agvet chemicals in agriculture.

We have plans to seek dedicated funding to deepen our capacity to increase the number of farmers taking control of the means of production, especially but not only around the current exciting movement to build small-scale regional abattoirs and grain mills.

We’ll be seeking input from members across Australia of best practice examples of councils enacting food sovereignty with specific policies and activities, such as the proposed Victorian Central Highlands Premium Produce Hub, which aims to provide knowledge, networks and practical opportunities to local farms to support its many producers’ viability. We look forward to sharing these examples on the AFSA website to encourage more councils to support food sovereignty for their communities.

We are working on the curriculum for a Buckminster Fuller Series of farmers’ workshops that aim to help more farms run viable models that reject the false promises of endless growth, gain control of their value chains, and sell directly to the people who eat their food grown in ethical and ecologically-sound ways. Once fully developed, AFSA will host these workshops across the country, training more farmers to run their own workshops to continue growing the new/old system.

AFSA look forward to supporting our wildly successful event that began as Slow Meat in 2017 and will be re-badged in response to participant feedback as REAL Good Meat: ethical, ecological, delicious.

This year we are extremely fortunate to have the capacity to have formed an international team within the committee, which will deepen and strengthen our work in the global movement with La Via Campesina and the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty, including attendance at a range of meetings and workshops convened by the Food & Agriculture Organisation and other bodies of the United Nations. We are grateful to the FAO for its commitment to fund the social movements, which, along with funding from other external bodies, enables the participation of civil society without creating a drain on AFSA’s and other organisations’ scarce resources.

Finally, we are thrilled to announce that the 2019 Food Sovereignty Convergence will be held in Brisbane, hosted by the pioneering dynamic duo Robert Pekin and Emma-Kate Rose in their newly equity crowdfunded Food Connect Shed in October 2019.

Here’s to another great year of progressing the ambitious aims of food sovereignty, to ensure everyone has access to culturally-appropriate and nutritious food produced and distributed in ethical and ecologically-sound ways, and our right to democratically determine our own food & agriculture systems!

Viva la revolución!

MAJOR WIN FOR FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AS VICTORIA ANNOUNCES PLANNING REFORMS

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The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is celebrating a win for small-scale pastured pig and poultry farmers – and everyone’s access to food grown in ethical and ecologically sound ways – with the Victorian Government’s announcement of the long-awaited reforms to the planning scheme.

The reforms acknowledge the very low risk these systems pose to environment and amenity, and introduce a streamlined permit application process for low density mobile outdoor pig and chicken farms, with no requirement for referrals to other agencies nor a notice and review period.

‘While we still maintain that small-scale pastured pig and poultry farms should not have been required to obtain a permit to farm in the Farming Zone, just as their grazing counterparts are not required to, we have accepted this compromise as a way forward to give local councils and communities confidence that our intentions to raise animals responsibly and respectfully are matched by our farming practices,’ said AFSA President Tammi Jonas.

Up until 2015 small-scale pastured pig and poultry farms were advised by councils across the state that they did not require permits as they were generally considered to be ‘extensive’ or grazing systems. However, a VCAT ruling in 2015 deemed free-range pig farm Happy Valley as ‘intensive’ due to importing the majority of the pigs’ feed.

The decision triggered a process that has taken three years to address what farmers, councils, and the state government all agreed was an unintended consequence of an imprecise definition.

AFSA mobilized its members and partnered with other organisations across the state such as Slow Food Melbourne, Open Food Network, and the Victorian Farmers Markets Association, which led to an unprecedented 270 submissions made to Agriculture Victoria late last year calling for scale-appropriate, risk-based planning provisions.

‘We are delighted at this outcome after years of working with the Victorian Government, and optimistic that small-scale regenerative farmers have a seat at the table now that we have collectivized our voices in an organization that the Government recognizes as the voice of small-scale farmers,’ said AFSA President Tammi Jonas.

‘Whilst the new scheme is not perfect, it blends solid scientific principles with a pragmatic approach for planners to ensure that our sector can continue to expand rapidly while protecting environment and amenity. The Government and its departments are to be congratulated for recognising the emergence of our sector and asking for our help to formulate this new policy,’ said Bruce Burton of Milking Yard Farm.

“Regrarians Ltd applauds the Victoria State Government’s process since it released its draft reforms in September 2017. Working with partner organisations such as AFSA, VFMA along with many of our clients affected by these reforms, we have been encouraged by the professional collaboration of these stakeholders to work with the government such that the regenerative agriculture industry’s interest and best practice have been included. We look forward to continuing the collaboration so that further development of the reforms serves the interests of a regenerative future for Victoria’s agriculture,” said Darren Doherty of Regrarians Ltd.

AFSA hopes this is the first of many amendments to legislation that is hampering the growth of regenerative agriculture across Australia, from scale-inappropriate planning schemes to food safety regulation.

‘We want to see regenerative farming become the new normal, with care for soil, water, animals, farm workers, and eaters at the core of our farming practices, but for this to happen, we need governments to shift their policy focus from supporting industrial agriculture to enabling regenerative farming.’

‘We’re encouraged by Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford’s announcement last month of the Artisanal Agriculture program, with $2 million earmarked to support our members in their efforts to grow food in ethical and ecologically-sound ways,’ said Jonas.

One significant concern that remains is the failure to include other species of poultry (such as ducks, geese, turkeys, quail and squab) in the streamlined process. However, ‘AFSA has been assured by the Minister that the work to include other species of poultry in the streamlined process will be undertaken as a matter of priority,’ said Jonas.

Contact:           Tammi Jonas, President

m: 0422 429 362

AFSA calls out biased reporting on Victorian planning reforms

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Peter Hunt, a Weekly Times reporter, has treated the concerns of Victoria’s pastured livestock farmers over proposed planning reforms with total contempt, calling them ‘delusional.’

This seems unsurprising given Hunt spent many years in a policy role with the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF), a body whose reputation for attacking small-scale farmers is increasing.

Pastured pig and poultry farmers have rejected factory farming and are instead growing animals outside in the fresh air. They devote their farms to growing healthy animals in ethical and ecologically-sound ways.

In an op ed in last week’s Weekly Times, Mr Hunt trotted out the drivel the Victorian Government is seeking to rectify when he called pastured livestock farms ‘intensive’.

Hunt went on to make spurious claims about the biosecurity risks of free-range poultry and pigs. However, it is sheds full of thousands of animals living with their own excrement that are the real source of a massive public health threat – those sheds are ‘food for flu’ as evolutionary biologist Rob Wallace states.

The Government’s attempt to reform the planning provisions has fallen short of the 2016 recommendations of the Animal Industries Advisory Committee (AIAC). The AIAC called for the scheme to recognise the lower risk small-scale pastured pig and poultry farms pose, and for planning controls to be commensurate with that risk.

The AIAC called for small-scale pastured pig and poultry farms to be treated like other grazing production systems.

The AIAC went through an independent public consultation. However, once handed to Agriculture Victoria, the ongoing consultation was limited to peak bodies for intensive agriculture – Australian Pork Limited (APL), Meat & Livestock Australia (MLA), and the VFF, and a handful of cattle farmers. There was no representation for pastured pig and poultry farmers, and Ag Vic came back with a draft that sees all pig and poultry farms with more than 200 birds or three sows needing a permit.

The Government, the VFF, and the likes of Hunt keep repeating that all pig and poultry farms have always needed to get a permit, however, they fail to acknowledge that requirement was only recently established by a VCAT case in 2015. This was a trigger for the need to reform the planning scheme. Calling a farm with 100 pigs on 40 acres ‘intensive’ was deemed inappropriate, and the controls applied incommensurate with the risk.

Hunt’s track record of sloppy and inaccurate journalism does the public interest no favours, and his disdain for pastured pig and poultry farmers tells where his allegiances lie.

Tammi Jonas, President

Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance

MEDIA RELEASE: The future of free-range farming endangered by NSW Planning review

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The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is calling on the NSW Government to secure a future that encourages regenerative farmers by ensuring regulatory burdens on small-scale pastured livestock producers are commensurate with the low risk they pose to their communities.

The Government states that the aim of its proposed planning reforms are to ‘support the development and management of intensive livestock agriculture’ through:

  • Exemptions for small-scale livestock operators in non-sensitive locations; and
  • Clarification of the definitions and thresholds for intensive livestock agriculture requiring development consent.

The Government claims that the ‘proposed amendments will illustrate a clear difference between extensive and intensive agriculture land uses, making it easier for industry and applicants.’

And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small-scale free-range pig and poultry farming.

Under the new reforms, all pig and poultry farms, regardless of size or production model, will be considered ‘intensive livestock agriculture.’ A farm with 25 sows on pasture will be called ‘intensive’ just like a shed with 2000 sows inside.

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent – for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows – the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.

AFSA supports regulation of farming that protects human and animal health and preserves environment and amenity. We call on the NSW Government to amend the proposals to address the following key concerns:

  • Revise the definitions around extensive (outdoors on pasture) as opposed to intensive (confined in sheds) animal husbandry. Small-scale, low-risk farms should be excluded from the definition of ‘intensive’ or allowed in the definition of ‘extensive.’
  • Reduce the proposed 500m setback (buffer zone) between animals and neighbouring dwellings to allow the operation of a pastured pig or poultry farm on a smaller or narrow block without requirement for a Development Application. Any setback should take into account stocking rates and rotational grazing practices undertaken by most small-scale regenerative farmers.
  • The definition of intensive pig or poultry farms should only apply to farms with a stocking rate that clearly presents a higher risk to environment and amenity, not an arbitrary number of animals unassociated with land size or production model.

Pastured pig and poultry farms must be unshackled from the negative environmental and social consequences[1] of their industrial counterparts and treated independently, because they simply do not pose a significant risk to environment or amenity.

Penny Kothe, pastured pig and poultry farmer and owner of Caroola Farm in Mulloon, notes that, ‘a 500m buffer means that almost all small-scale pig and poultry farms would require costly council approvals. This could cause the death of truly free-range pig and poultry farmers. It will place limits on our future ability to farm in a more sustainable and ethical way. These reforms will definitely be a deterrent to new farmers, at a time when we desperately need to be encouraging people to enter the industry.’

Cameron Mynott of Australian Pasture Fresh says, ‘it is imperative for the future of sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming, that small-scale farmers be able to run under a common-sense, outcomes-based legislation. From a risk mitigation perspective, applying measures and controls to all farms irrespective of their actual size and operations is both counter-intuitive and counterproductive. It has been proven, globally, that animals raised in a pastured environment, with rotational grazing and mobile infrastructure, create none of the issues or risks that the proposed legislation seeks to mitigate.’

‘Applying a simple to understand head to hectare ratio to further define “intensive” is not only fair and reasonable, but will ensure NSW does not see the devastation to Australian family farms that Victoria is currently experiencing. It’s heartbreaking to speak to other farmers who are having to close their operations down due to legislative burdens.’

State governments must take heed of increased community expectations for ethical and ecologically-sound produce, and support those who farm this way to meet the growing demand. This is especially pertinent at a time when Australia faces a changing climate and dwindling resources. The current draft policies would deter future farmers from entering farming, at a time when Australia has fewer farmers than ever before.

AFSA President Tammi Jonas states, ‘A food sovereign and secure future depends on appropriate planning controls that preserve farm land in perpetuity. Legislation should also protect the rights of all people to access nutritious and culturally-appropriate food produced in ethical and ecologically-sound ways, and their right to democratically determine their own food and agriculture systems.’

CONTACT:

  • Tammi Jonas, President   M: 0422 429 362
  • Sarah de Wit, Paralegal M: 0449 128 992

E: admin@afsa.org.au

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367646/

CALL TO ACTION – Secure the future of free-range farming!

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Why should small-scale pastured pork and poultry farms be treated like intensive sheds while cattle feedlots of 1000 cattle do not require a permit? The Victorian Government’s proposed reforms to planning controls for animal industries  could mean the collapse of pastured pigs and poultry farms in Victoria.

We have until 14 November 2017 to be heard!

1. SIGN THE PETITION now to secure the future of free-range farming in Victoria!

2. PRINT the petition to collect signatures from your local community

3. SHARE / TAG / COMMENT

Join us in demanding change by sharing a photo of your pastured poultry or pork operation and calling on ministers to support scale-appropriate planning controls that encourage rather than hinder regenerative and ethical farming in Victoria.

We demand that small-scale pastured pig and poultry farms be treated under the Farming Zone like other low-risk grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

Use the following hashtags

#thisisnotintensive #thisisfarming #regenerativeag #pasturedpoultry #pasturedpigs #ethicalchicken #ethicalpork and don’t forget to tag Jaala Pulford MP, Richard Wynne MP, Barnaby Joyce, and Mick Gentleman MLA.

4. BECOME A MEMBER OF AFSA

Your membership will add your voice to the many others standing up for small-scale farming. Our collective voice matters – show the Government that we are not just vocal, but numerous!

5. ATTEND THE INFORMATION SESSIONS & OFFER FEEDBACK

6. MAKE A SUBMISSION by 14 November 2017.

7. EMAIL YOUR LOCAL MEMBER AND THE MINISTERS

 

 

Name

 Electorate Email Phone
Hon Martin Peter Foley Albert Park martin.foley@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9646 7173
Hon Jill Hennessy Altona minister.health@health.vic.gov.au (03) 9395 0221
Mr Brian Francis Paynter Bass brian.paynter@Parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5672 4755
Hon Heidi Victoria Bayswater heidi.victoria@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9729 1622
Hon Lisa Neville Bellarine lisa.neville@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5250 1987
Mr William John Tilley Benambra bill.tilley@parliament.vic.gov.au (02) 6024 4488
Hon Jacinta Marie Allan Bendigo East jacinta.allan@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5443 2144
Ms Janice Maree Edwards Bendigo West maree.edwards@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5444 4125
Mr Nick Staikos Bentleigh nick.staikos@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9579 7222
Hon Robert William Clark Box Hill robert.clark@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9898 6606
Hon Louise Asher Brighton louise.asher@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9592 1900
Frank McGuire Broadmeadows frank.mcguire@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9300 3851
Hon Jane Furneaux Garrett Brunswick jane.garrett@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9384 1241
Hon Matthew Jason Guy Bulleen matthew.guy@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9850 7983
Hon Colin William Brooks Bundoora colin.brooks@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9467 5657
Mr Geoffrey Kemp Howard Buninyong geoff.howard@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5331 7722
Mr Graham Travis Watt Burwood graham.watt@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9809 1857
Ms Sonya Kilkenny Carrum sonya.kilkenny@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9773 2727
Mr David James Southwick Caulfield david.southwick@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9527 3866
Mr Hong Lim Clarinda hong.lim@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9543 6081
Mr Jude Perera Cranbourne jude.perera@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5996 2901
Hon David Hodgett Croydon david.hodgett@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9725 3570
Ms Gabrielle Williams Dandenong gabrielle.williams@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9793 2000
Hon Bruce Norman Atkinson Eastern Metropolitan bruce.atkinson@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9877 7188
Hon Richard Alex Gordon Dalla-Riva Eastern Metropolitan richard.dalla-riva@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9803 0592
Ms Samantha Dunn Eastern Metropolitan samantha.dunn@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9850 8600
Mr Shaun Leo Leane Eastern Metropolitan shaun.leane@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9887 0255
Hon Mary Louise Newling Wooldridge Eastern Metropolitan mary.wooldridge@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9878 4113
Ms Melina Gaye Bath Eastern Victoria melina.bath@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5174 7066
Mr Jeffrey Matthew Bourman Eastern Victoria jeff.bourman@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5623 2999
Mr Daniel Mulino Eastern Victoria daniel.mulino@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5940 5010
Hon Edward John O’Donohue Eastern Victoria edward.o’donohue@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5941 1112
Ms Harriet Shing Eastern Victoria harriet.shing@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5134 8000
Ms Lucinda Gaye McLeish Eildon cindy.mcleish@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9730 1066
Ms Vicki Ward Eltham vicki.ward@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9439 1500
Mr Daniel James Pearson Essendon danny.pearson@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9370 7777
Ms Stephanie Maureen Ryan Euroa steph.ryan@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5762 1600
Ms Christine Fyffe Evelyn christine.fyffe@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9735 3208
Hon Nicholas Wakeling Ferntree Gully nick.wakeling@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9758 6011
Hon Marsha Rose Thomson Footscray marsha.thomson@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9689 4283
Mr Neil Andrew Warwick Angus Forest Hill neil.angus@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9877 5628
Mr Paul Andrew Edbrooke Frankston paul.edbrooke@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9783 9822
Ms Christine Anne Couzens Geelong christine.couzens@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5221 3131
Mr Bradley William Battin Gembrook brad.battin@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9796 1987
Hon Timothy Owen Bull Gippsland East tim.bull@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5152 3491
Mr Daniel David O’Brien Gippsland South danny.obrien@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5144 1987
Mr Neale Ronald Burgess Hastings neale.burgess@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5977 5600
Mr John Pesutto Hawthorn john.pesutto@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9882 4088
Mr Anthony Richard Carbines Ivanhoe anthony.carbines@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9457 5328
Mr Timothy Colin Smith Kew tim.smith@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9853 2999
Hon Martin Philip Pakula Keysborough martin.pakula@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9547 6262
Hon Marlene Kairouz Kororoit marlene.kairouz@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 8361 7133
Hon John Hamdi Eren Lara john.eren@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5275 3898
Ms Emma Kealy Lowan emma.kealy@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5382 0097
Ms Mary-Anne Thomas Macedon mary-anne.thomas@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5428 2138
Hon Michael Anthony O’Brien Malvern michael.obrien@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9576 1850
Ms Ellen Sandell Melbourne ellen.sandell@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9328 4637
Mr Donato Antonio Nardella Melton don.nardella@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9743 9825
Mr Peter Laurence Crisp Mildura peter.crisp@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5021 2828
Hon Liliana D’Ambrosio Mill Park lily.d’ambrosio@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9422 5171
Hon James Anthony Merlino Monbulk james.merlino@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9754 5401
Mr Timothy Noel Richardson Mordialloc tim.richardson@Parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9772 4544
Mr David Charles Morris Mornington david.morris@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5975 4799
Hon Russell John Northe Morwell russell.northe@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5133 9088
Mr Michael Xavier Charles Gidley Mount Waverley michael.gidley@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9561 0511
Hon Daniel Michael Andrews Mulgrave daniel.andrews@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9548 5644
Hon Peter Lindsay Walsh Murray Plains peter.walsh@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5482 2039
Mr Gary John Blackwood Narracan gary.blackwood@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5623 1960
Hon Luke Anthony Donnellan Narre Warren North luke.donnellan@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9706 0566
Ms Judith Ann Graley Narre Warren South judith.graley@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9704 6055
Hon Martin Francis Dixon Nepean martin.dixon@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5986 6661
Mr Benjamin Alan Carroll Niddrie ben.carroll@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9379 5879
Mr Greg Barber Northern Metropolitan greg.barber@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9348 2622
Mr Nazih Elasmar Northern Metropolitan nazih.elasmar@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9456 9244
Hon Jenny Mikakos Northern Metropolitan jenny.mikakos@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9462 3966
Mr Craig Philip Ondarchie Northern Metropolitan craig.ondarchie@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9422 0099
Ms Fiona Heather Patten Northern Metropolitan fiona.patten@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9386 4400
Mr Mark Gepp Northern Victoria mark.gepp@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5427 2444
Hon Wendy Ann Lovell Northern Victoria wendy.lovell@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5821 0055
Mr. Luke O’Sullivan Northern Victoria Luke.O’Sullivan@parliament.vic.gov.au 5443 6277
Ms Jaclyn Symes Northern Victoria jaclyn.symes@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5783 2000
Mr Daniel James Young Northern Victoria daniel.young@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5799 1331
Mr Stephen Dimopoulos Oakleigh steve.dimopoulos@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9568 2456
Mr Timothy Logan McCurdy Ovens Valley tim.mccurdy@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5721 6155
Ms Elizabeth Anne Blandthorn Pascoe Vale lizzie.blandthorn@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9354 9935
Mr Richard Vincent Riordan Polwarth richard.riordan@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5231 5046
Mr Samuel Peter Hibbins Prahran sam.hibbins@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9981 9501
Hon Robin David Scott Preston robin.scott@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9478 5611
Hon Richard William Wynne Richmond richard.wynne@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9415 8901
Ms Deanne Sharon Ryall Ringwood dee.ryall@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9870 7396
Ms Louise Eileen Staley Ripon louise.staley@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5461 1255
Hon Kimberley Arthur Wells Rowville kim.wells@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9764 8988
Mr Murray Hamilton Thompson Sandringham murray.thompson@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9598 2688
Ms Suzanna Sheed Shepparton suzanna.sheed@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5831 6944
Mr Andrew Katos South Barwon andrew.katos@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5243 5222
Hon Gavin Wayne Jennings South-Eastern Metropolitan gavin.jennings@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9548 5644
Mrs Inga Peulich South-Eastern Metropolitan inga.peulich@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9772 1366
Hon Gordon Kenneth Rich-Phillips South-Eastern Metropolitan gordon.rich-phillips@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9794 7667
Hon Adem Somyurek South-Eastern Metropolitan adem.somyurek@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9794 0699
Ms Nina Meredith Springle South-Eastern Metropolitan nina.springle@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9584 4013
Mrs Roma Britnell South-West Coast roma.britnell@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5562 8230
Ms Georgina Mary Crozier Southern Metropolitan georgie.crozier@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9555 4101
Hon Philip Dalidakis Southern Metropolitan philip.dalidakis@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9557 1500
Hon David McLean Davis Southern Metropolitan david.davis@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9888 6244
Ms Margaret Fitzherbert Southern Metropolitan margaret.fitzherbert@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9681 9555
Ms Susan Margaret Pennicuik Southern Metropolitan sue.pennicuik@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9530 8399
Ms Natalie Suleyman St Albans natalie.suleyman@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9367 9925
Mr Joshua Michael Bull Sunbury josh.bull@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9740 4091
Hon Natalie Maree Sykes Hutchins Sydenham natalie.hutchins@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9449 1511
Hon Telmo Ramon Languiller Tarneit telmo.languiller@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9916 1778
Ms Bronwyn Halfpenny Thomastown bronwyn.halfpenny@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9401 2711
Hon Ryan James Smith Warrandyte ryan.smith@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9841 5166
Ms Sharon Patricia Knight Wendouree sharon.knight@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5331 1003
Mr Timothy Hugh Pallas Werribee tim.pallas@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9741 1133
Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins Western Metropolitan rachel.carling-jenkins@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 8742 3226
Mr Khalil Eideh Western Metropolitan khalil.eideh@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9363 1644
Mr Bernard Thomas Christopher Finn Western Metropolitan bernie.finn@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9317 5900
Ms Colleen Hartland Western Metropolitan colleen.hartland@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9689 6373
Mr Cesar Melhem Western Metropolitan cesar.melhem@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9689 6536
Mr Joshua William Morris Western Victoria joshua.morris@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5332 9443
Hon Jaala Pulford Western Victoria jaala.pulford@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5332 2405
Mr James Desmond Purcell Western Victoria james.purcell@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5568 2929
Mr Simon Ramsay Western Victoria simon.ramsay@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5222 1941
Ms Gayle Tierney Western Victoria gayle.tierney@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 5224 2088
Hon Wade Noonan Williamstown wade.noonan@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9399 9022
Ms Danielle Green Yan Yean danielle.green@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9432 9782
Ms Rosalind Louise Spence Yuroke ros.spence@parliament.vic.gov.au (03) 9305 7177

See AFSA’s media release for more information. 

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