NSW Farmers is urging everyone to support a pro-farming rally to be held in the nation's capital on September 10. NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin said the rally on the doorstep of Parliament House would be a landmark moment in the fight to protect food and fibre production from anti-farming decisions set to cost the nation billions.
"Farmers have always put food on the table for Australians and clothes on our backs, but decisions are being made in Canberra that are making it more and more impossible to do this," Martin said.
"We need good decisions out of Canberra that support the farmers who quite literally feed and clothe our nation, and this rally is our chance to show politicians and policy-makers that farmers will not stand by while they ignore facts and science to comply with the theories of anti-farming activists. The water, land and workers needed to grow our food is being taken away by bad decisions, and we need to act now to keep our farmers farming before our food security is thrown into real jeopardy."
The national rally will focus on key issues such as the proposed double tax on farmers for biosecurity, the impacts of the renewable energy transition on rural communities, the draining of fresh water out of Basin communities into the ocean, and the ban on live sheep exports by sea.
Martin urged everyone to show their support for the agricultural industry by attending the rally and calling on federal parliamentarians to reverse their anti-farming policies.
"Farmers around the world are increasingly having to stand up for agriculture, as politicians put policies into place that threaten our food security and force farmers out of business. Australia is no exception, and we hope to see farmers turn out in their thousands this September 10 so we can ensure every Aussie family has food on their table, and clothes on their backs."
The rally will commence at 11am on September 10 on the Federation Mall, opposite Parliament House.
For more information:
Paul Brown on
NSW Farmers
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www.nff.org.au/national-farmer-rally