Archive for 'Advocacy'
Bump up Newstart or risk abject poverty
Posted on 19. Apr, 2012 by PatR.
If you were laid offwork tomorrow do you think you could survive on $35 a day?
Read Cassandra Goldie’s opinion piece that people on benefits are battling serious poverty.
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Australian Government report on food security
Posted on 14. Dec, 2010 by AlexandraG.
The Federal Government has established a National Food Policy Working Group to discuss, investigate and advise on policies and challenges faced by the food and agriculture indistries about the future of Australia’s food supply.
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SFFA calls for policy to safeguard the future of NSW food
Posted on 22. Sep, 2010 by PatR.
A coalition of consumers, health workers and sustainable food lobbyists has called on the NSW Government to set up an independent food policy council for NSW with the aim of introducing a whole of government strategy for sustainable food production and access.
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SFFA calls on the Australian Government to adopt a food policy
Posted on 08. Aug, 2010 by Mark Ludbrooke.
In July, the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance wrote to both the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. Tony Burke, and the Parliamentary Secretary for Health, the Hon. Mark Butler, to urge the Australian Government to develop and implement a national food policy.
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Food Summit Declaration 2009
Posted on 29. Apr, 2010 by PatR.
The SFFA Food Declaration sets out the position of the Alliance in calling for a NSW state food policy. It was developed during 2009 through a series of regional forums and a Food Summit under the heading : ‘Hungry for change’.
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Using the Law to Protect the Land
Posted on 15. Mar, 2010 by PatR.
Jemilah Hallinan details the Environmental Defender’s Office’s cases to protect prime agriculture land at Orange and Caroona.
