Submissions received on the issues paper

Thank you for your interest in the development of a national food plan.

The Issues paper to inform the development of a national food plan was developed by the Australian Government to start the community discussion about our food and the issues affecting it.  The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Senator the Hon. Joe Ludwig when he released the issues paper on 23 June 2011, invited submissions from stakeholders on what a food plan should aim to achieve. Public submissions closed at 5pm Australian Eastern Standard Time, Friday 2 September 2011, with the government receiving 279 submissions. The Australian Government is drawing upon these submissions to inform the development of a national food plan.

Publication of submissions

All submissions that were received by the government have been published to the extent possible.

Submissions denoted by ‘*NFP’ (not for publication) relate to:

• submissions that have been provided ‘in confidence’ to the government at the request of authors or where authors have not authorised publication of their submission on the website or
• submissions that contain offensive language, potentially defamatory material, or copyright infringing material.

Responsibility for copyright in submissions resides with the author/s, not the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.

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