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 |
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| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | During the December/January School Holidays, Vacation care was held at both Bingara and Warialda. Children participated in a range of different science experiments, cooking, excursions to the town Libraries and town swimming pools and to Inverell to visit Shake Rattle and Bowl. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Gwydir Shire Council provides households with a 3-bin system consisting of general waste, recycling and food and kitchen organics Food Organics Garden Organics Bin (FOGO). Commercial and Non Rateable properties have a general waste, recycling service and food and kitchen organics upon request as needed. As part of the collection contract Cleanaway provides education sessions on waste and utilising the 3-bin system throughout the Shire. Two workshops sessions were delivered at Bingara Central School and one at Warialda preschool during the 2018-2019 reporting period. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Kool Skool Kids Program The Kool Skool Kids Program has proved to be an invaluable service to working parents. This service is open to Toy Library members only and accommodates up to 15 children each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon. The children participate in craft, games, cooking, homework help and sporting activities | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Other special events/celebrations-The Toy Libraries also celebrate festive occasions each year. This year was of no exception with Santa visiting at Christmas time, a Christmas party, Reindeer food making morning and at Easter time, children engaged in egg hunts, craft and cooking. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Rural Outreach Service: This Service visits Bingara Toy Library each month to provide support to families via interactive, chat and information sessions. They also provided two healthy cooking class sessions for the children and for families. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | These events included the Bingara Orange Festival, The Warialda Honey Festival, Bingara and Warialda Drought Relief Christmas events, The Gwydir Community Education and Business Awards, The Bingara Australia Day Celebrations, Gwydir New Residents Welcome Events, Small Business Month Events and a series of Farming Families events held in each town and village within the Shire. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | This year, significant positive outcomes achieved, was the implementation of a classroom environment being made available to Gravesend Playgroup. This area facilitates a positive area for learning, with both heating and cooling facilities now available to playgroup families, a carpeted room for floor play, desks for structured learning play experiences, craft and cooking and a fridge for lunchboxes or formula. The ability to venture outdoors is still current, whereby gross motor and sensory exploration experiences are provided for during playgroup sessions. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Warialda Preschool The Preschool is full most days, with only a few positions available on Mondays and Fridays. The Preschool is open five days a week and has been able to give families a rebate on their fees due to external funding. Every child is given a hat, shirt and drink bottle when they start, thanks to the Regional Bank Community Partnerships program. | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Waste Collection An online fortnightly promotional campaign targeting the improvement of recycling habits has been undertaken along with a fortnightly campaign aimed at promoting increased use of FOGO bin (Food Organics Garden Organics Bin). | Health and Wellbeing | Education/events on food system issues | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | NAIDOC Day ‘Voice, Treaty, Truth’ This event was held in partnership with Bingara Central School to provide young people in our community with cultural knowledge specifically related to our area. The children and young people who attended “The Living Classroom” were informed and educated about the amazing contribution the first people of this nation have made to our sense of place in the world. This event followed the Myall Creek Memorial Weekend of events in Bingara. The day included dancers and bush tucker; combining history, culture, the arts and education outdoors. Toowoomba dancer and cultural educator Buddy Hopi, with his helpers, provided a great spectacle along with Inverell artist Eleanor Binge who helped the participants produce an artwork on canvas. The students also cooked Johnny Cakes and took part in some traditional fishing at the lake. This was done on a rotational basis with four different groups and they all had the opportunity to participate in everything on offer. | Health and Wellbeing | Traditional food cultures | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Child and Family Health Nurse: Debbie Armstrong, HNEAH Child & Family Health Nurse visits both services on a regular monthly basis, offering baby weigh and measuring as per the blue book schedule. These visits also cater for child and baby immunisations if requested and are carried out within the services. This year the Child & Family Health Nurse administered a total of 32 child flu vaccines and 10 parent flu vaccines. The HNEAH Child & Family Health Nurse is available during in service visits for discussions regarding, children’s general health and wellbeing, breastfeeding, baby lead weaning, starting solids, developmental milestones, post-partum care for mothers, anxiety management for children, hearing and information regarding audiometry testing for children and information for referral services as requested or required i.e.; Tresillian, PANDA, and various parenting helplines. | Health and Wellbeing | Breastfeeding | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Due to the generosity of our sister city council, Willoughby City Council, our Council has been able to provide deliveries of potable water to our farming families and villages with access to only tank water. Council supplies water deliveries with two tankers and the demand has increased steadily throughout the reporting period. Council made a total of 321 deliveries between December 2018 and June 2019 delivering a total of 3,644,000 litres of potable water across the shire. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Water Operations and Maintenance Council’s four (4) water supplies operate under Drinking water quality management system that involves placement of multiply barriers of protection to ensure water quality is maintained. | Health and Wellbeing | Access to safe drinking water | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Educational activities The Noxious Weeds Officers ran information stalls at Bingara and Warialda Shows and AgQuip throughout 2018-2019. Here they had a display of noxious weeds and booklets for weed control focused on the targeted weeds for our geographical area. They also attended drought relief events to provide support and information to attendees | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Support the existing agricultural industry and provide new opportunities | Sustainability and Environment | Sustainable local food production | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | The number of Grazing permit Concurrences processed increased by 263% to 113 for the period. The application forms were reviewed and streamlined to accommodate the expected increase. | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Travelling Stock Route (TSR) used to graze cattle due to ongoing drought conditions. | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Warialda Truck Wash Facility Council secured $365k of grant funding for the construction of a new truck wash facility in Warialda. The new facility will be located adjacent the Warialda HPV Route and is intended to reduce the spill of stock effluent from livestock cartes. The new facility will feature two wash down bays on an elevated ramp to allow for the wash out of trailers from trucks up to the size of 36.5m road trains. Additionally, two dump points will be available to drain on board effluent tanks from livestock trucks. The project features an onsite amenities building and will be available to the trucking industry on a user pays basis through the use of the AvData system. The site features dedicated settling ponds for waste washed from trucks allowing dry waste to be removed from site and liquid waste to be treated in Council’s sewer treatment plant. The total project footprint has approximately 2 hectares of road and asphalt, significant water and sewer infrastructure and extensive stormwater management including an integrated bio-retention basin. | Sustainability and Environment | Animal husbandry | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Travelling Stock Route (TSR) used to graze cattle due to ongoing drought conditions. | Sustainability and Environment | Food supply and food system resilience | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Gwydir Shire Council provides households with a 3-bin system consisting of general waste, recycling and food and kitchen organics Food Organics Garden Organics Bin (FOGO). Commercial and Non Rateable properties have a general waste, recycling service and food and kitchen organics upon request as needed. As part of the collection contract Cleanaway provides education sessions on waste and utilising the 3-bin system throughout the Shire. Two workshops sessions were delivered at Bingara Central School and one at Warialda preschool during the 2018-2019 reporting period. | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Waste Collection An online fortnightly promotional campaign targeting the improvement of recycling habits has been undertaken along with a fortnightly campaign aimed at promoting increased use of FOGO bin (Food Organics Garden Organics Bin). • An average of 288kg per service was collected in the Red bin over 1522 services down from 314 kg • An average of 140kg per service was collected in the Yellow bin over 1522 services down from 164 kg Page 62 • An average of 105kg down from 144 kg per service was collected in the Green bin over 1357 services down from 144 kg The decrease in the red bin is a good indicator of better waste separation and recycling. The drop in recycling was expected with the container deposit scheme. The decline in green bin mass is due to the ongoing drought with less moisture mass going in and the lack of active garden growth | Food Waste | Food losses and food waste | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Health Food Inspections All medium and high-risk food businesses had an annual inspection during 2018-2019. Mobile food van and stalls had a brief inspection as per the Food Authority’s guidelines. The yearly food inspection survey was completed and submitted to the Food Authority. Information was distributed to food businesses including food authority fact sheets and a regional food safety calendar. People seeking information about mobile and home food businesses were given the relevant information and no complaints were received for the period. Staff attended regional meetings and training sessions with the Food Authority to ensure their skills and knowledge are up to date with current standards. | Food Quality and Safety | Education on/enforce food safety regulations | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Support the existing agricultural industry and provide new opportunities | Economic Development | Food related job creation | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | In addition, Council provided cash and in-kind support to a range of community events such as the Bingara and Warialda Men’s Health nights and agricultural shows, the North Start Trail Ride, the Warialda Women’s Health Night and the Upper Horton Rodeo to name a few. | Economic Development | Local food initiatives for economic development | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Centrelink The delivery of Centrelink contract services continues to operate as a vital service within the Bingara Community particularly as drought conditions worsen throughout the Shire. This service has been an invaluable resource for farmers and has assisted many primary producers to access the Farm Household allowance. | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Educational activities The Noxious Weeds Officers ran information stalls at Bingara and Warialda Shows and AgQuip throughout 2018-2019. Here they had a display of noxious weeds and booklets for weed control focused on the targeted weeds for our geographical area. They also attended drought relief events to provide support and information to attendees | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | In addition, Council provided cash and in-kind support to a range of community events such as the Bingara and Warialda Men’s Health nights and agricultural shows, the North Start Trail Ride, the Warialda Women’s Health Night and the Upper Horton Rodeo to name a few. | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| Gwydir Shire Council Annual Report 2018/2019 | Support the existing agricultural industry and provide new opportunities | Economic Development | Local food producers | NSW | Gwydir | Regional |
| H U N T E R ‘ S H I L L C O U N C I L ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 | Council also commenced work on a housing strategy; tasks include investigating affordable housing and develop targets for new housing development and investigate ways to support ageing in place, and this is an ongoing process to be completed in 2019-20. This strategy will include options around increasing options for assisted living for people with disability as well as ageing in place. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Hunters Hill | Metropolitan |
| H U N T E R ‘ S H I L L C O U N C I L ANNUAL REPORT 2018-19 | Incorporated as part of LSPS process to be completed in 2020. | Social Policy | Affordable housing | NSW | Hunters Hill | Metropolitan |