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Will the NFF’s squeaky wheel get the grease it’s after?

THE National Farmers Federation has brought in its new leadership with a new campaign hoping to drum up support for its efforts to fight against “anti-agriculture” policies being put forward the Labor Government.

Since being elected last year the Government has introduced a series of policies the NFF and other farm lobby groups have been strongly opposed to, including:

  • A phase out of live sheep exports by sea
  • Dramatically increasing renewable energy developments, with transmissions lines going through prime farmland
  • Bringing back the possibility of water buybacks on the Murray…

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