2014-05-08 WDHS CEO Jim Fletcher on the Country Hour – Country Hour ABC (audio)

2014-05-08 WDHS CEO Jim Fletcher on the Country Hour – ABC Statewide Vic

2014-05-08 Latest Board News – Great South Coast Group

One of the key decisions of The Great South Coast Group will be write to the Federal and State Governments in support of the National Centre for Farmer Health in Hamilton.

2014-05-08 Latest Board News – Great South Coast Group

2014-05-07 Jaala Pulford MLC respond to the 2014 Victorian Budget – ABC 594 Western Victoria (audio)

2014-05-07 Jaala Pulford MLC respond to the 2014 Victorian Budget – ABC 594 Western Victoria (audio)

2014-05-07 Health body faces axe – Farmers’ Weekly

AN INNOVATIVE and highly successful farmers’ health body will close this year if it does not receive government funding …

Read the full article:

2014-05-07 Health body faces axe – Farmers’ Weekly [PDF 1.9mb]

2014-05-07 Business drives – Stock and Land

`What’s driving your pasture business’ will be the theme of the 2014 Grassland Society of Southern Australia annual conference to be held in Ballarat in June.

Presentations on Thursday include topics related to financial performance drivers, and enhancing on-farm efficiencies. The National Centre for Farmer Health will also present on “Looking after the farmer”….

2014-05-07 Business drives – Stock and Land

2014-05-06 Food and agriculture seen as ‘great economic driver’ as Victorian Budget pumps billions into new infrastructure – The Weekly Times

BILLIONS of dollars will be pumped into new infrastructure, today’s Victorian Budget has revealed.

The jewel in the crown for rural and regional Victoria will be the $220-million Murray Basin Rail Project, announced at the weekend.

However there looks to be no money for the National Centre for Farmer Health which desperately needs funding for its survival …

2014-05-06 Food and agriculture seen as ‘great economic driver’ as Victorian Budget pumps billions into new infrastructure – The Weekly Times

2014-05-06 Ramsay calls for NCFH funding – Hamilton Spectator

2014-05-06 Ramsay calls for NCFH funding -Hamilton Spectator [PDF 287kb]

2014-05-05 Nicole Chvastek speaks with Tam Phillips – ABC Vic Statewide Drive

Nicole Chvastek speaks with Tam Phillips, farmer and nurse about funding for the National Centre for Farmer Health.

2014-05-05 Nicole Chvastek speaks with Tam Phillips – ABC Vic Statewide Drive

2014-05-05 Farmer’s health body facing chop – The Age

2014-05-05 Farmer’s health body facing chop (Source: The Age)

2014-05-05 Farmer’s health body facing chop – The Age [PDF 344kb]

2014-05-03 Libby Harricks Oration 2014

Following the 2014 Libby Harricks Memorial Oration, Brisbane and the National Deafness Sector Summit and XXXII World Audiology Congress. From left
Lyndal Carter, Research Audiologist National Acoustics Laboratory;
Emma Scanlon, PRINCIPAL AUDIOLOGIST CSO ADULTS, Australian Hearing;
Dr. Susan Brumby, Director National Centre for Farmer Health and 2014 Orator.
Dr. Jenny Rosen OA, Chair Libby Harricks Oration Committee;
Dr. Warwick Williams, Senior Research Engineer, National Acoustics Laboratory
David Brady, Chief Executive Officer at Hear For You, President at Deaf Advocacy Sport and Recreation ACT, Chairperson at Deafness Forum of Australia.

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2014-05-03 Ramsay backs calls for farmer health centre funding – The Standard

2014-05-03 Ramsay backs calls for farmer health centre funding (Source: The Standard)

2013-06-22 Disbelief at centre closure – Hamilton Spectator

2013-06-22 Disbelief at centre closure-Hamilton Spectator [PDF 532mb]