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We publish communiques:

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Ministers’ forums

What is the Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting

2024

  • Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting – 8 March 2024
  • Viticulture and Wine Sector Working Group June 2024
  • Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting – 18 July 2024
  • Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting – 1 November 2024

2023

  • Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting - 6 October 2023
  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - 13 July 2023
  • Agriculture Ministers’ Meeting - 15 May 2023

2022

  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - 7 December 2022
  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - 9 September 2022 
  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - 20 July 2022

2021

  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - November 2021
  • Agriculture Ministers' Meeting - 15 June 2021

Agriculture Ministers’ Forum (AGMIN)

  • Agriculture Ministers' Forum - 21 February 2020
  • Agriculture Ministers' Forum - 10 December 2019
  • Agriculture Ministers' Forum - 25 October 2019
  • Agriculture Ministers' Forum - 8 February 2019
  • Agriculture Ministers' Forum - 27 April 2018

  • Seventh meeting of Fisheries Ministers - 15 November 2024
  • Sixth meeting of Fisheries Minister - 7 June 2024
  • Fifth meeting of Fisheries Ministers - 15 February 2019

  • Forestry Ministers' Meeting - 29 November 2024
  • Forestry Ministers' Meeting - 12 July 2024
  • Forestry Ministers' Meeting - 8 December 2023
  • Forestry Ministers' Meeting - 11 July 2023
  • Forestry Ministers meet in Adelaide - 18 November 2019
  • Forestry Ministers meet in Melbourne - 15 February 2019
  • Forestry Ministers meet in Melbourne - 1 June 2018

  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 29 July 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 22 May 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 24 April 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 14 April 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 3 April 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 27 March 2020
  • Primary Industries Ministers' Meeting - 19 March 2020

Topics

  • National Management Group Communiqué: African black sugar ant (Lepisiota incisa) in Western Australia - 9 November 2023
  • National Management Group Communiqué: African black sugar ant (Lepisiota incisa) at Perth, Western Australia - 22 December 2020

What is the Agricultural Workforce Working Group

2023

  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 15 September 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 14 August 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 17 July 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 9 June 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 2 May 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group - 5 April 2023
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group Meeting - 1 March 2023

2022

  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group Meeting - 15 December 2022
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group Meeting - 15 November 2022
  • Agricultural Workforce Working Group Meeting - 21 October 2022

  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H7N8 – 14 March 2025
  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (H7) – 4 February 2025
  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H7 – 16 July 2024
  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (H7) – 21 June 2024
  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (H7) – 7 June 2024
  • High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (H7) – 23 May 2024
  • Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N2 - 7 September 2020
  • Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza H7N6 - 7 September 2020
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H7N7 - 7 September 2020
  • Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza - 4 August 2020
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - 7 August 2020
  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza - 1 August 2020

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Banana freckle (Phyllosticta cavendishii) 10 December 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Banana freckle (Phyllosticta cavendishii) 9 February 2023

  • Biosecurity Import Supply Chain Roundtables - 26 February 2021

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Browsing ant in the Northern Territory - 24 August 2021
  • National Biosecurity Management Group Communiqué: Browsing ant at the Port of Brisbane, Queensland - 21 June 2019
  • National Biosecurity Management Group agrees to a revised Response plan for Browsing Ant in the Northern Territory - 24 January 2018

  • Australian grains forum - 21 November 2019

  • Bushfire Roundtable on Forestry - 6 February 2020

  • National Management Group Communiqué - 20 December 2019

  • National Management Group agrees to a revised Response Plan for Citrus Canker - 8 November 2019
  • National Biosecurity Management Group agrees to a revised Response Plan for Citrus Canker - 20 December 2018
  • National Management Group agrees to a revised Response Plan for Citrus Canker - 11 July 2018
  • National Management Group agrees to a Response plan for Citrus Canker in the Northern Territory - 11 May 2018

  • Stakeholder update: imported cut flowers and foliage - 17 April 2020
  • Cut flowers and foliage imports industry forum - 5 April 2019

  • Dairy Symposium communique - 22 March 2024

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Euwallacea fornicatus/Fusarium sp. AF-18 complex - 21 October 2022

  • Exotic Fruit Flies in the Torres Strait - 28 June 2021
  • Exotic Fruit Flies in the Torres Strait - 3 May 2019

  • National Management Group Communiqué - 1 April 2022

  • National Biosecurity Management Group agreed Macao Paper Wasp is no longer technically feasible to eradicate from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands - 3 September 2018

  • National Biosecurity Committee Communiques

  • National Management Group Communiqué 11 - National Electric Ants Eradication Program (NEAEP) 29 January 2025

  • National Management Group Communiqué: National Tropical Weeds - 26 November 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: National Tropical Weeds - 23 June 2021

  • National Fire Ant Eradication Program National Management Group communiqué – 12 December 2024
  • National Fire Ant Eradication Program National Management Group communiqué – 24 July and 12 September 2024
  • National Fire Ant Eradication Program National Management Group communiqué – 29 May and 6 June 2024
  • National Fire Ant Eradication Program National Management Group communiqué – 28 March 2024
  • National Biosecurity Management Group communiqué: Red Imported Fire Ants - 22 February 2024

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Red Witchweed - 14 May 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Red Witchweed - 5 June 2020

  • SGTTF communiqué 1 - October 2022
  • SGTTF communiqué 2 - April 2023
  • SGTTF communiqué 3 - October 2023
  • SGTTF communiqué 4 - October 2024

Communiques from Tasmanian RFA annual meetings are available on the Tasmanian Regional Forest Agreement page.

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Tomato brown rugose fruit virus – 21 November 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV) – 30 September 2024

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 25 July 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 9 February 2024
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 19 September 2023
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 8 September June 2023
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 1 September June 2023
  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa destructor - 27 June 2023

  • National Management Group Communiqué: Varroa jacobsoni - 31 July 2020
  • Varroa jacobsoni 2019 Incident - 25 July 2019

  • Viticulture and Wine Sector Working Group Communiqué - October 2024
  • Viticulture and Wine Sector Working Group Communiqué - June 2024
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We acknowledge the continuous connection of First Nations Traditional Owners and Custodians to the lands, seas and waters of Australia. We recognise their care for and cultivation of Country. We pay respect to Elders past and present, and recognise their knowledge and contribution to the productivity, innovation and sustainability of Australia’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry industries.

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