Sustain has links with the following organisations in Australia:
- Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health: www.awash.org.au
- Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance: http://australian.foodsovereigntyalliance.org
- Choice, the Australian equivalent of Which? in the UK. This link is to the Choice food page:
www.choice.com.au/Reviews-and-Tests/Food-and-Health/Food-and-drink.aspx - Fairtrade Association Australia & New Zealand: www.fairtrade.com.au
- Food Connect, a social business that works with farmers around Brisbane to provide good food for local people. Similar enterprises are being established in other parts of Australia: www.foodconnect.com.au
- Obesity Policy Coalition: www.opc.org.au
- Parents Jury, an online network of parents, grandparents and otheres who want to improve the food and physical activity environments of Australian children: www.parentsjury.org.au
- Public Health Association of Australia. This is a link to the Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group. http://phaa.net.au/foodNutrition.php
- Sustainability Education and Ecological Design (SEED) International: www.seedinternational.com.au
- Sydney Food Fairness Alliance: www.sydneyfoodfairness.org.au
- Victorian Eco Innovation Lab. VEIL’s work has included groundbreaking work on, for example, food and planning: www.ecoinnovationlab.com
- Victoria Food Policy Coalition: www.foodalliance.org.au
Australian connections
Jeanette Longfield (third from the left in the picture above) was invited to speak at the Food Summit, hosted by the Sydney Food Fairness Alliance (members in the picture above) conference in Sydney on 22nd and 23rd October 2010. While in Australia, she took the opportunity to visit a range of organisations working on sustainable food and farming issues.
Following her visit, Jeanette Longfield was invited to give the Ruby Hutchison lecture at the Choice annual conference in Sydney in March 2011. Over a period of around two weeks, she took the opportunity to revisit food activists she met on the first visit in autumn, in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and was also invited to meet like-minded people in Adelaide.
Kena Duignan, formerly of the Sustain Good Food on the Public Plate project, had started work with the Victorian Food Policy Coalition in Melbourne, the closest to an Australian Sustain that we have met. Similar, stimulating discussions took place in the other cities, interspersed with formal and information presentations about Sustain’s work. Several people are likely to visit Sustain’s offices in London in the summer.
