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Guardian Australia understands those policies passed the Nationals party room on Monday, despite a reproach about the way the backbench, led by Barnaby Joyce, had launched them without prior approval.
The NFF’s chief executive, Tony Mahar, will launch the paper on Tuesday in a speech to the National Press Club titled “Regionalisation – the Time is Now” alongside the Business Council of Australia’s Jennifer Westacott and Council of Small Business Organisation’s Peter Strong.
The NFF paper argues that “nascent energy industries, including renewables and hydrogen supply chains, can gain competitive advantage from being in regional and rural areas, as can digital infrastructure such as datacentres”.