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The Country Women's Association (CWA) annual conference sets the lobbying agenda for the year ahead.
Almost 30 motions were discussed with issues that ranged from ovarian cancer to logging, medicinal cannabis and the 'failure' of aged care service delivery.
Among almost 400 women were members of Tamworth's Evening CWA Branch, where president Sue-Ellen Hogan also worked in a journalist capacity.
"Some motions that I thought would easily go one way went the other way, to a larger majority than I would have expected," she said.
"The motion to lobby the federal government to declare a climate emergency was lost, and I was quite surprised.
"I think one of the concerns about that motion is that the preamble looked at agriculture ... it didn't look at the other reasons for climate change or it had too much of a focus on agriculture.
"A number of our members would be affected if there's big changes in agricultural production or it's seen as a bigger issue than others, but I was surprised it was lost at a majority."
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Regional mental health was heavily on the minds of women at the conference.
Among the motions discussed were access to appropriate services such as face-to-face acute psychiatric care in rural and regional towns, and a single coordinated mental health service dedicated to suicide prevention.
Now, the CWA state office will look at which motions were carried and how to start addressing those with industry groups and state and federal governments.
The conference finished on May 6, and was held in Bega where hundreds of women attended.
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