Get live updates from the Making our Voices Heard panel discussion, here.

The Making Our Voices Heard advocacy event will run tomorrow from 1.30pm and readers can ask questions of panel members.

The fundamentals of who advocacy bodies should talk to and what they should talk about was challenged by Making Our Voices Heard panel members.

Andrew Spencer who, until recently, led Australian Pork Limited had some wisdom to share with the red meat and dairy industries at Making Our Voices Heard.

Who we invite to join agricultural advocacy groups needs a rethink says Nuffield scholar Daniel Meade.

Simon Crean kicked off the Making Our Voices Heard advocacy panel with a brutal assessment of leadership.

More than 75 people attended the Making Our Voices Heard panel in Melbourne.

Making Our Voices Heard panel member and Nuffield scholar Daniel Meade travelled the world studying how agricultural advocacy bodies engage with farmers.

Funding of dairy advocacy is pivotal says Australian Dairy Farmers chief executive David Inall.

Trust and a common understanding are far more important to successful advocacy for Australian agriculture than organisation structures or even unity.