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- Animals
08 November 2022
World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH, formerly OIE) Director General, Dr Monique Éloit is visiting Australia for the first time this week.
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- Animals
03 November 2022
On One Health Day 2022 Australia’s Three Chiefs are highlighting the importance of working together to address environmental changes contributing to…
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- Animals
21 October 2022
Have your say on draft rabies risk review
A draft report into a policy review of the rabies virus risk in imported cats and dogs has today been…
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- Animals
20 October 2022
New procedures for imported animal-based pet food through the mail will see items destroyed if they don’t pass muster.
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- Science
07 October 2022
Public consultation is now open on Australia’s first national action plan on soil.
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- Biosecurity
28 September 2022
A new workshop on 7 October 2022 will present research findings and seek stakeholder feedback on how design of ports and selection of building…
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- Biosecurity
28 September 2022
World Rabies Day 2022 with the theme ‘Rabies: One Health, Zero Deaths’ is raising awareness of the global target to end human deaths from dog-…
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- Biosecurity
23 September 2022
The ‘Detecting illegal wildlife trafficking via real time tomography 3D x-ray imaging and automated algorithms’ paper by Pirotta et al.
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- Pests
25 August 2022
The National Hitchhiker (Contaminating) Plant Pest Action Plan 2022–2032 released today will protect Australia’s plant-related industries and…
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- Biosecurity
22 August 2022
Around $5 million will be spent over the coming year on projects using cutting-edge science to help boost Australia's biosecurity capabilities.
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- Plants
16 August 2022
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has provided funding for the upgrade of two key scientific identification tools for plant pests…
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- Biosecurity
15 August 2022
The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer (OCVO) has seconded four staff to work overseas – one at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in…
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- Biosecurity
08 April 2022
The Australian Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) and the Pacific Community (SPC) Land Resources Division (LRD) have signed…
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- Biosecurity
23 March 2022
Australian Chief Veterinary Officer Dr Mark Schipp is travelling to Indonesia to meet with senior government officials on a range of cooperation…