|
AgForce Queensland is a peak
organisation representing Queensland's rural producers,
which strives to ensure the long term growth, viability,
competitiveness and profitability of broad acre
industries of cattle, grain, sheep and wool in
Queensland.
In 1997, the Cattlemen's Union of
Australia (CU), the Queensland
Graingrowers Association (QGGA) and the
United Graziers' Association (UGA)
each represented their respective members on
agripolitical issues.
Together, the three groups had a vision of
bringing broadacre producers in a single,
unified association. This organisation is
now known as AgForce Queensland.
The merge proposal was put to a vote of the
members of all three organisations in June,
1998, with phenomenal results. Around 94
percent of the UGA members, 92 percent of
the QGGA members and 87 percent of the CU
members who voted, voted in favour of the
merger. The message was resounding: in times
of dramatic and rapid change, of market
turbulence, of urban population drift, of an
ever-decreasing awareness among Australians
of the importance and value of the rural
sector to the economic and social fabric of
the country, what was needed was a single
voice. AgForce was born.
While each of the parent organisations were
based around their specific industry
commodities, most of the issues and concerns
they addressed at members' meetings were
common: resource management, land tenure,
environmental issues, international
competitiveness and withdrawal of rural
community services. AgForce continues to
address these issues and concerns and has
done so on a wider scale since the merger.
Since the overwhelming vote by members for
the establishment of AgForce, this new, peak
organisation for Queensland's rural
producers has come a very long way.
AgForce's success has been built on the
noted strengths of its predecessor
organisations, but it has also embraced many
different philosophies in its aim to ensure
the long term growth, viability,
competitiveness and profitability of
broadacre industries in Queensland, both in
domestic and international markets.
AgForce is an inclusive organisation,
striving always to bring into its membership
people outside the traditional ranks of
primary producer organisations: more young
producers, more women, more rural community
businesses and services. As such, AgForce
has become an advocate for the broadacre
industries of cattle, grain and sheep and
wool. As well as the producers who operate
across these three commodity groups, AgForce
represents their families, their communities
and the wider rural sector.
AgForce is in the business of “making a
difference” in regional and rural
Queensland.
Our motto is
“Advancing Rural Queensland”.
Organisational Structure of AgForce
Queensland
TOP
The
following tables outline the
organisational structure of AgForce
Queensland, current after the 2004
AgForce Elections.
AgForce
State Council consists of six
executive members, and nineteen
regional representatives - 25 in
total.
The
state executive council consists of
the following positions: President,
Vice-President,
Vice-President/Treasurer, and the
three Agforce Commodity Board
presidents.
The
nineteen state council regional
representatives are allocated among
the regions (according to member
numbers in each region) as follows:
5 from the AgForce North Qld region,
4 from Central Qld, 5 from South
East Qld, 3 from Southern Inland
Qld, and two from South West Qld.
The
committee structure that existed
prior to the 2004 elections has now
been replaced by a number of key
policy portfolio areas that consists
of a number of policy area
taskforces, each with two primary
contact people - the Chairperson
(who is usually one of the state
council members), and a full-time
staff member whose concern is that
particular policy area.
The
portfolios and specific-issues
taskforces are managed by a new
Policy Co-ordination Group, usually
chaired by one of the state council
vice-presidents.
Each of
the five AgForce regions has its own
Regional Council, the size of which
is determined by the number of
member branches in that region.
The
Policy Co-ordination Group is
responsible for bringing issues
arising from the work of the varions
portfolio and taskforces to council.
The
Industrial Relations, Native Title,
& Membership committees make
recommendations directly to AgForce
State Council.
The
AgForce Council in each region has a
president, vice-president,
vice-president/treasurer and a
representative from each of the
AgForce branches in that region.
This
list does not include full-time
staff members, only elected member
positions.
General President
AgForce Commodity
Board Presidents
State Council -
Regional
Representatives
Policy Co-ordination
Group
Chair: John Cotter
Click on your
region for more information!
TOP
State and
Regional Branch Councillors
TOP
The following table is a
listing of the elected state
council members, followed by
a full listing of all the
elected member
representatives from each of
the five AgForce regional
councils.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
