The re-elected government will help secure Australia’s food future with the development of a new national and broadly based food security strategy called Feeding Australia which has roots in an earlier parliamentary report (Australian Food Story: Feeding the Nation and Beyond, Inquiry into food security in Australia). The national food plan will engage the whole food system, from paddock to plate and beyond. It will deal with the production and distribution of food, supply chain resilience, access to food, good nutrition (diet and health), and the management and disposal of food waste and other waste products. It will address the health implications of the food system.
General Resolution
Water quality algal blooms and the national food strategy
That ACT Labor Conference calls on the Federal Labor Government to act such that the proposed national food plan will address water quality and in particular blue-green algal overgrowth and the associated toxins which harm, soil, plants, animals and people and environmental sustainability. The National Food Plans should extend to measures for monitoring and mitigating blue green algae overgrowth and understanding their multiplicity of causes.