Submission: Retain Food Irradiation Labels
29 March 2016If Food Irradiation labelling is lost, GM food labels will follow
>> download fileSubmission: To the Department of the Environment on synthetic biology
07 November 2016Synthetic biology goes far beyond the first generation of ‘transgenic’ engineered organisms. Predicted to be almost a US$40 billion market by 2020, industrial activity in synthetic biology is rapidly exploding as new genome editing tools and cheaper synthesis of DNA make it easier to genetically manipulate biological organisms.
>> download fileTrade of Products of Modern Biotechnology under the TPP
27 October 2016Provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) allow contamination of our food supply with unapproved and illegal Genetically Manipulated (GM) organisms.
>> download fileSubmission: DIR 145 - Xtend Flex and Bollgard 3 Xtend Flex cotton
25 October 2016Brief comment as it is obvious from your Q & A document
that OGTR, FSANZ and APVMA have already conferred and decided to approve these Genetically manipulated (GM) cotton seed varieties for general commercial sale throughout Australia.
Nonetheless, we recommend that the OGTR reject licence application DIR145.
Submission:The Australian Government to become Party to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
16 October 2016While the Biosafety Protocol has 170 State Parties, Australia is not among them. As the next Meeting of the Parties to the Protocol (MOP8) will be held in Cancun, December 4-8, prior to the Biodiversity Convention conference (COP13), 2 this is an opportune time for Australia to accede to the Protocol.
>> download fileComment: Gene Technology (Queensland) Bill 2016
06 September 2016If the Commonwealth Gene Technology Act is amended, the Queensland GT Act will also be amended, with minimal opportunity for the Queensland Minister or parliament to review or debate legislation that would affect Queensland agriculture.
>> download fileNotes to IFOAM based on the Australian organic experience with GM
31 March 2016The policy should aim to minimise all GM contamination, and where it occurs, to maintain the livelihoods of organic participants in supply chains, through compensation for economic loss and harm.
>> download fileBrief history of Genetic Manipulation Debate in Australia
28 March 2016Short Unofficial History of GM debate in Australia, 2014.
>> download fileComments: Trade of Products of Modern Biotechnology in the TPP
10 March 2016We call on the Australian Government and Parliament to not adopt or ratify the TPP text negotiated in secret between the twelve partners. If it is ‘all
or nothing’, then we say ‘nothing’.
Submission: Agricultural Innovation
01 March 2016GM technology has no role in increasing agricultural productivity
>> download fileComments on role of technology in increasing agricultural productivity in Australia.
29 February 2016Innovation is the key to food security and sovereignty but the new suite of agricultural solutions to problems like climate change, unreliable water supply and soil loss will not include GM seeds and more pesticides.
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