All news
Explore all our news and media items. Use filters to find items that interest you.
- Media release
- Pests
Renewed focus on weed biocontrol is set to deliver benefits to land managers and the environment in the fight against weeds.
- Media release
- Pests
Pests and weeds are costing farmers a combined $5.3 billion a year in both management and production loss.
- Media release
- Diseases
Prevention of future pandemics and major health events requires cooperation across health sectors and disciplines via a One Health approach.
- Statement
- Department
The department has received several enquiries recently about the potential use of mRNA vaccines in livestock.
- Media release
- ABARES
The third national survey of pests and weeds shows 85% land managers spent on average around $21,950 in 2022 on pest and weed species management.
- Media release
- Diseases
Australia has donated 400,000 dog rabies vaccines to Indonesia to combat the spread of the disease.
- Newsletter
- Animals
Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease of birds and can affect most wild and domesticated bird species.
- Newsletter
- Animals
Preventing and controlling emergency animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, lumpy skin disease, and dog-mediated rabies requires…
- Newsletter
- Animals
The Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer (OCVO) – Northern Australia is well and truly up and running, led by Australian Deputy Chief Veterinary…
- Media release
- Biosecurity
Shuttle stallions are highly valuable, male thoroughbred and standardbred horses who are ‘shuttled’ between the Northern and Southern hemisphere to…
- Media release
- International
Hitchhiker pests are not native to Australia and have a specific biology or behaviour that allows them to ‘hitch a ride’ to Australia via sea…