The following has been posted on behalf of Dr Hanna Jaireth, Farm Debt Mediation Officer at the NSW Rural Assistance Authority
Consultation comment invited – Review of the Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994 (NSW)
Photo credit: Tim Vrtiska
The Farm Debt Mediation Act 1994 (NSW) (FDMA) is being reviewed to ensure it continues to deliver on its original intent, and to provide a model for nationally consistent legislation.
The Board of the NSW Rural Assistance Authority (RAA) is overseeing the review.
Your feedback is requested in response to questions in the Review Consultation Paper (PDF, 696.57 KB).
Submission options
You may respond by 5 May 2017 by:
- completing theonline survey, or
- emailingyour comments, or
- posting your comments in hardcopy, or
- one or more of the above.
Online survey
The online survey provides the questions raised in the Review Consultation Paper (PDF, 696.57 KB) so that if you wish, you can respond easily to all or some of the questions.
Individual survey responses will not be published.
Questions 1 to 3 are mandatory so that we can assess which stakeholders express which views, and we can provide you with information about the outcomes of the review.
Email your comments
If you wish to email a submission, please email farmdebt.mediation@raa.nsw.gov.au.
We would prefer to receive longer submissions in Word and/or Pdf format as an attachment.
Please make it clear if you attach additional documents to your submission, whether those documents may be published on the review website.
Post your comments
You may send a submission in hard copy to:
Dr Hanna Jaireth NMAS | Farm Debt Mediation Officer
NSW Rural Assistance Authority
Level 2 | 161 Kite Street | ORANGE NSW 2800
Locked Bag 23 | ORANGE NSW 2800
Ph: 1800 678 593 | Fax: 02 6391 3098 | E: hanna.jaireth@raa.nsw gov.au
W: www.raa.nsw.gov.au
Release policy
The RAA will not accept or publish anonymous submissions or comments.
Private contact information will not be published, but submitters’ names and organisations will be published unless a request for confidentiality is agreed after consideration of a written request.
Submissions will be published on the RAA’s website in full or in part unless the RAA declines to accept a submission because it contains information of a private, legal or otherwise sensitive nature, or because it is vexatious, offensive or defamatory.
If a submission includes something critical of another person or organisation the RAA will write to them and ask them to respond, and the RAA may decide to withhold publication of both the submission and the comments made in response.
Further information
If you need to access a translating and interpreting service please telephone 1300 651 500 or visit the Interpreting & Translation page of the Multicultural NSW website.
For further information please:
- Email farmdebt.mediation@raa.nsw.gov.au
- Phone RAA on 1800 678 593
- Consult Farm Debt Mediation
The Australian Dispute Resolution Research Network 
One of the first mandatory mediation schemes, the Farm Debt mediation Scheme has provided an encouraging example of how social justice can influence dispute resolution. Thanks for the heads up about the review Becky.
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