National Farmers' Federation

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The National Farmers' Federation (NFF) is an Australian industry association that represents Astralian farmers at a national level, including through lobbying the Australian Government. NFF's members are the state-level farmers' organisations, national commodity councils, and other affiliated members.

According to the NFF charter, state-level farmers' organisations represent the interests of the agricultural sector in their respective states while issues related to individual commodities or interstate/national farming concerns are represented by relevant national commodity councils. The NFF council comprises delegates from each state and territory representing primary producers on the commodity councils of their respective industry.

David Crombie, of Queensland, has been president of the organisation since June 2006.[1]

The current CEO of the National Farmers' Federation is Ben Fargher.

[edit] History

The Federation was created in 1979. The organisation was incorporated in July 2001.

NFF has been involved in a number of major policy debates in Australia, including the tarrif reform debate and the tax reform debate. NFF was a key player in a number of industrial relations disputes, including:

Rick Farley, was NFF's Chief Executive for eight years.[3]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Queenslander wins NFF top job", ABC News, 2006-06-14. Retrieved on 2006-06-14. 
  2. ^ Vol 5-4: A Brief History of the Wide Comb Dispute in the Pastoral Industry Award - Paul Houlihan
  3. ^ "Former NFF boss dies", ABC News, 2006-12-15. 

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