Welcome to the Australian Local Food System Policy Database. This is a collection of policies from New South Wales (NSW) and Victorian local governments that relate to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems.
For further information about using the database and how it was created see How to use the database. You can search the database by using the fields below. Domain refers to eight broad categories under which various topics are situated. The domains and topics are based on a framework of recommendations for local government action on creating a healthy, sustainable, and equitable food system (also located on the ‘How to use the database’ page linked above).
To cite the database: Reeve B, Carrad A, Rose N, Charlton K & Aguirre-Bielschowsky I (2021) Australian Local Food System Policy Database. Available at: https://law-food-systems.sydney.edu.au/policy-database (access date).
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| Document title | Relevant text in the policy | Domain | Topic | State | Local Government name | Council type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Work has commenced on the development of a connected work and learning space in the Hilltops which could be pivotal to the delivery of training in the agricultural sector. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Community education Randwick Council conducts a comprehensive and proactive program of sustainability education and events for residents, business owners, students, their school communities and visitors. Courses and workshops are conducted on topics such as permaculture gardening and orchards, organic gardening, composting, worm farming, sustainability leadership, working with community groups | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Work has commenced on the development of a connected work and learning space in the Hilltops which could be pivotal to the delivery of training in the agricultural sector. Council has also had close contact with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation at Boorowa and through the development of these relationships and programs hopes to foster a program of learning to support the Agricultural sector and the business community of Hilltops in general. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA), were able to support our weekly ‘Permabee’ volunteers by bringing LOOKING AFTER OUR ENVIRONMENT ‘Green Gym’ volunteers back to Randwick Community Centre to help out on revegetation initiatives. Green Gym participants were mainly seniors from our community increasing their physical activity whilst learning about and supporting weekly revegetation improvements. This work was carried in and around the wildfood, habitat, and apiary trails as well as the Centre’s permaculture garden and orchard areas. Eco Heroes monthly club activities for youngsters and parents continued to provide opportunities to meet, play, gain some additional knowledge whilst caring for their local environment | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Work has commenced on the development of a connected work and learning space in the Hilltops which could be pivotal to the delivery of training in the agricultural sector. Council has also had close contact with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation at Boorowa and through the development of these relationships and programs hopes to foster a program of learning to support the Agricultural sector and the business community of Hilltops. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | ‘Green Gym’ volunteers back to Randwick Community Centre to help out on revegetation initiatives. Green Gym participants were mainly seniors from our community increasing their physical activity whilst learning about and supporting weekly revegetation improvements. This work was carried in and around the wildfood, habitat, and apiary trails as well as the Centre’s permaculture garden and orchard areas. Eco Heroes monthly club activities for youngsters and parents continued to provide opportunities to meet, play, gain some additional knowledge whilst caring for their local environment | Sustainability and Environment | Food production on LG land | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Work has commenced on the development of a connected work and learning space in the Hilltops which could be pivotal to the delivery of training in the agricultural sector. Council has also had close contact with CSIRO at Boorowa and through the development of these relationships and programs hopes to foster a program of learning to support the Agricultural sector and the business community of Hilltops in general. | Economic Development | Food related job creation | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Community education Randwick Council conducts a comprehensive and proactive program of sustainability education and events for residents, business owners, students, their school communities and visitors. Courses and workshops are conducted on topics such as permaculture gardening and orchards, organic gardening, composting, worm farming, sustainability leadership, working with community groups | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | 3.1.2.2.3 Facilitate a stronger alignment between businesses to maximise tourism opportunities (Agritourism, Sports, Education, etc) | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA), were able to support our weekly ‘Permabee’ volunteers by bringing LOOKING AFTER OUR ENVIRONMENT ‘Green Gym’ volunteers back to Randwick Community Centre to help out on revegetation initiatives. Green Gym participants were mainly seniors from our community increasing their physical activity whilst learning about and supporting weekly revegetation improvements. This work was carried in and around the wildfood, habitat, and apiary trails as well as the Centre’s permaculture garden and orchard areas. Eco Heroes monthly club activities for youngsters and parents continued to provide opportunities to meet, play, gain some additional knowledge whilst caring for their local environment | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | 3.2.1.1.4 Encourage Agritourism across the Hilltops region | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | frogs to home gardens, to school excursions on saving energy and water, seed saving, growing food and increasing recycling. Most of these skills and capacity building sessions are held at Council’s own sustainability education ‘hub’ located at the Randwick Community Centre, but are also spread between our sustainability demonstration project with Waverley and Woollahra Councils, at Barrett House, as well as our highly regarded Community Nursery and various libraries. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Ongoing encouragement of agritourism within the region. Promotion of farm gate businesses. Promotion of local food and wine including local farmers markets, events such as the Long Lazy Lunch, food and wine weekend, cellar door promotion and food and wine tastings and promotions. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | More than 60 different courses, workshops, excursions, and volunteer days are also held throughout the year attracting between 3,000 and 4,000 participants, young and old, to become more sustainable around their homes, schools, gardens and in their workplace. From composting and worm farming, growing your own food on balconies or backyards, bike maintenance, keeping bees and chickens, and bringing birds and | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | The 69th National Cherry Festival which showcased the region’s cherry industry was held on Friday 30 November РSunday 2 December 2018. The cherry season attracts thousands of people to the region over several weeks to celebrate all things Cherry. Each year the Cherry season is launched with the Cherry Blossom Long Lunch in late September then continues through until Christmas. Friday festivities moved to Boorowa Street for a Street Carnival followed by a spectacular fireworks display. The weekend brought sunshine and loads of free activities including the pipes and drum spectacular, a bush poets’ competition, the big breakfast, cherry pie and pip spit competition, working dog demonstrations, art exhibitions, busking competition, farmers markets and market stalls, orchard tours and live entertainment by local performers held in Anderson Park. In 2018 Cherry entrants Clare Grantham and Amelia Everdell and their support teams events raised $17,069.84. The funds raised were split, the National Cherry Festival (40%) and their chosen charities (60%). The charities that benefited were the Young Community Chest and Young/Boorowa Can Assist. A huge achievement. Great work by all involved. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | The 3-Council Regional Environment Program’s Compost Revolution program continues to achieve major savings in food waste by enabling householders to purchase compost bins and worm farms and our free mulch service saw hundreds of residents choose to pick | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | The Harden Kite Festival is a family friendly annual event run by the local community and supported by Council. Leading into the festival there were over 217 volunteers who helped bring the festival together. It was held on 13 October 2018 at the Harden Racecourse. The event attracted a record 111% increase from just under 4,000 to 8,132. 29% of these coming from Canberra and 26% from the Hilltops region. With a record number of attendees, organisers experienced the largest traffic jam Harden Murrumburrah had ever seen. The 2018 theme was Kites Colour Culture. The big blue skies of the Hilltops came alive with colourful kites while on the ground, live entertainment, market and multi-cultural food stalls | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | NOX, Latin for Night, is a night sculpture walk centred around Randwick Environment Park. Students from UNSW create artworks that are lit by renewable energy and form a leisurely 3.5km walk. Held over 3 nights, the event includes food trucks and entertainment. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | up and re-use parts of the green waste collected from homes and gardens around Randwick. | Sustainability and Environment | Home and community gardening | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | Promotion of local food and wine including local farmers markets | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | More than 60 different courses, workshops, excursions, and volunteer days are also held throughout the year attracting between 3,000 and 4,000 participants, young and old, to become more sustainable around their homes, schools, gardens and in their workplace. From composting and worm farming, growing your own food on balconies or backyards, bike maintenance, keeping bees and chickens, and bringing birds and | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | The 69th National Cherry Festival which showcased the region’s cherry industry was held on Friday 30 November РSunday 2 December 2018. The cherry season attracts thousands of people to the region over several weeks to celebrate all things Cherry. Each year the Cherry season is launched with the Cherry Blossom Long Lunch in late September then continues through until Christmas. Friday festivities moved to Boorowa Street for a Street Carnival followed by a spectacular fireworks display. The weekend brought sunshine and loads of free activities including the pipes and drum spectacular, a bush poets’ competition, the big breakfast, cherry pie and pip spit competition, working dog demonstrations, art exhibitions, busking competition, farmers markets and market stalls, orchard tours and live entertainment by local performers held in Anderson Park. In 2018 Cherry entrants Clare Grantham and Amelia Everdell and their support teams events raised $17,069.84. The funds raised were split, the National Cherry Festival (40%) and their chosen charities (60%). The charities that benefited were the Young Community Chest and Young/Boorowa Can Assist. A huge achievement. Great work by all involved. | Economic Development | Public food markets and distributors | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Community education Randwick Council conducts a comprehensive and proactive program of sustainability education and events for residents, business owners, students, their school communities and visitors. Courses and workshops are conducted on topics such as permaculture gardening and orchards, organic gardening, composting, worm farming, sustainability leadership, working with community groups | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | 2.1.6.1 Build capacity within the agricultural community | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | A community that enjoys good housing Leeton Shire Council has made the following Delivery Program commitments to support the achievement of a community that enjoys good housing: 5a. Support the community to access a range of quality and affordable housing. 5b. Expand the range of residential opportunities across the Shire. 5c. Safeguard housing standards to promote healthy living and a healthy environment. Following is a summary of Council’s actions during 2018-19 to support these outcomes: Council invited Expressions of Interest for its proposed 22-lot subdivision in Conapaira Street, Whitton to gauge the demand for residential development at this site. There was, unfortunately, no take up. All Eventide Homes units are fully occupied, with 65% of renewal works completed. Council successfully sought to amend the land use table in the Leeton Local Environmental Plan 2014 to permit a greater range of suitable residential development to occur with the main business area of Pine and Kurrajong Avenues, Leeton | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Leeton | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Council’s ban of single-use plastics across Council operations from 1 July 2018 moved to a ban of singleuse plastics from Council-supported events from 1 January 2019. New efforts are underway to support less plastics used across other areas of the community, especially smaller businesses, cafes and restaurants. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | 3.2.1.1.3 Work with partners to promote developments in agricultural technology and practices to enable industry to adapt and respond to change | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | A very successful Harmony Day event was held at the Uniting Church Hall in March. The Multicultural support group coordinated provision of fine food reflecting cultures and cuisine from all over the globe. | Health and Wellbeing | Traditional food cultures | NSW | Leeton | Regional |
| 2018-19 Annual Report | Council’s long-running Best Green Innovation ideas competition continues to attract simple but innovative initiatives to improve our local environment from reducing single-use plastics, educating the community and re-using waste items that would otherwise end up in landfill. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Randwick | Metropolitan |
| 2018-19 ANNUAL REPORT | 3.2.1.1.5 Work with industry to investigate the development of new agricultural ventures and diversification through value adding | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Hilltops | Regional |