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National Biosecurity Week

Safeguarding Australia Together: Celebrating National Biosecurity Week 2025

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25 August 2025

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Australia’s food security future on the menu

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13 August 2025

A public consultation is underway that will help shape a new national food security strategy.

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Report offers insights into crop loss and waste on Australian horticultural farms

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  • Agriculture
31 July 2025

The average percentage of crop loss or waste per Australian horticultural farm dropped in 2023-24…

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Biosecurity lends a hand to ensure largest military op in Australia ever gets uninterrupted green light

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27 August 2025

Australia has just concluded its largest-ever defence exercise — Talisman Sabre 2025 — and the…

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Strengthening our biosecurity frontline: new cohort of detector dog handlers deployed across Australia 

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26 August 2025

There’s no doubt the bond between handler and detector dog is unbreakable.

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Farm lending reaches $131 billion in 2023-24

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22 August 2025

Aggregate lending to the farm sector rose 6% in 2023-24, according to the latest figures released…

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Swift action by a Sydney importer stops Red Imported Fire Ants in their tracks

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21 August 2025

A routine delivery quickly became a biosecurity success story, after quick-thinking staff at a…

ABARES 80th anniversary

Celebrating 80 years of agricultural research

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21 August 2025

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) today celebrates…

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Million-dollar fine for attempting to bypass export controls

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14 August 2025

An Australian grape-export company was fined more than a million dollars last week for deliberately…

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Research on the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) and the growing menace of other pest stink bugs.

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13 August 2025

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Sharp eye finds cacti illegally declared as lingerie and shoes

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12 August 2025

A woman who illegally misdeclared a package as lingerie and shoes when it really held 57 cacti and…

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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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