ANF Structure

The ANF is comprised of a representative from each State who form the ANF Board of Directors. The Directors, whilst elected by Members of their State/Territory, are bound to represent the best interests of all newsagents around Australia.

Membership of the ANF is open to any Australian newsagent who meets the definition of 'newsagent' as approved by the ANF Board.

That definition is:

"A newsagent is a person or entity conducting a retail business primarily offering a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines from a clearly identified newsagency business and/or a distribution business offering home and territorial delivery of a comprehensive range of newspapers and magazines."

At all times, such a person or entity must hold current contracts with all ANF-recognised publishers/distributors that have offered contracts in the relevant marketplace, provided such persons/entities are not excluded if they have not been offered all contracts.

The ANF-recognised publishers/distributors are ACP Publishing, News Limited, Fairfax Publications, Gordon and Gotch, Rural Press, Western Australian Newspapers, Australian Provincial Newspapers (APN) and Retail Distribution Services (RDS).

While a national organisation, the ANF ensures issues that are important to Members at a local level are dealt with at that level. State/Territory Branches are under the guidance of a Committee, which is elected by Members in that State/Territory. Further, to embrace the right of every Member to 'have their say', Directors of the ANF from each State/Territory are elected by the Members in that State/Territory. And, when it comes to General Meetings, each and every Member is entitled to attend and vote or can express their wishes by way of proxy given to a person of their choosing.