Animalplan 2022 to 2027 is Australia’s first national action plan for production animal health. It aims to strengthen animal health practices in our livestock industries.
It was endorsed by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and by state and territory agriculture ministers, in September 2022.
The plan consolidates themes from over 30 existing strategies, action plans and frameworks. This includes the Commonwealth Biosecurity 2030 roadmap and the National Biosecurity Strategy.
Animalplan 2022 to 2027
Animalplan is Australia’s first national action plan for production animal health.
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Animalplan projects
Animalplan has 7 objectives that were developed through extensive engagement with government, industry organisations and animal health experts.
The Animalplan Secretariat is developing a database of current and previous projects that are aligned with these 7 objectives. While the database is being developed, Animalplan projects are listed with links where available below.
The linked pages include all project information that was previously available in the Animalplan progress reports published between November 2023 and February 2025.
Active projects
- Project 27: Emergency Animal Disease (EAD) Crisis Management Planning
- Project 32: Disposal priority project focusing on pyrolysis and composting as methods for large animal disposal
- Project 52: South Australian pig biosecurity project
- Project 64: Assessing the feasibility of testing trapped pooled insects for lumpy skin disease virus
Completed Projects
- Project 15: Carcass Disposal – Destroy and let lie
- Project 17: Feral pig modelling: Enhancing decision making on EAD operations
- Project 22: Risk assessment for the introduction of lumpy skin disease (LSD) into Australia through non-regulated pathways
- Project 25: Virtual Reality to support Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) training (Phase 2)
- Project 28: A syndromic surveillance system to detect emerging animal biosecurity threats
- Project 33: Independent expert review of the veterinary science education capability of Australia and New Zealand
- Project 38: AUSVETPLAN Response strategy: Lumpy skin disease
- Project 39: Exercise Milky Way
- Project 40: Exercise Paratus
- Project 41: An augmented reality app to demonstrate the signs of four sheep EADs
- Project 63: Future of Australian Animal Health (2030-2035)
Other relevant activities
- Activity 1.5: The National Biosecurity Training Hub is a centralised platform for online biosecurity training for industry, government and community. The hub was developed to build and support biosecurity preparedness and response capacity and capability.
- Activity 1.7: Quarterly updates on the National Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) Action Plan.
Active Projects
- Project 2: Evaluation of antibody-detecting immunoassays for lumpy skin disease in cattle and buffalo
- Project 6: Northern Australia’s biosecurity sequencing (NABSeq) high throughput sequencing (HTS) network
- Project 7: Lumpy skin disease testing capacity building in the Laboratories Emergency Animal Disease Diagnosis and Response (LEADDR) network
- Project 54: Improve national diagnostic capability for glanders
- Project 55: Assessment and improvement of national bluetongue serological capability – a comparative study of commercial and in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay ELISAs
- Project 56: Improvement of serological testing for flaviviruses in Australian livestock
- Project 57: Towards validation of a microRNA-based diagnostic test for Johne's disease
- Project 58: Assessment of molecular ‘Differentiating Infected from Vaccinated’ DIVA capabilities for lumpy skin disease virus
- Project 59: Quality assurance for high-throughput sequencing HTS as an infectious agent discovery tool
- Project 61: The Australian Biosecurity Genomic Database (phase 3)
- Project 62: Building a sustainable national sample identification system for animal diagnostics – a pilot study using pre-barcoded sample collection tubes
- Project 64: Assessing the feasibility of testing trapped pooled insects for lumpy skin disease virus
Completed Projects
- Project 1: Australian Biosecurity Genomic Database for notifiable terrestrial animal viruses (phase 2)
- Project 2: Developing lumpy skin disease and African horse sickness whole genome sequencing workflows
- Project 4: Establishing networked serological testing capability for African swine fever
- Project 5: Sample Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) enhancement
- Project 8: Development & evaluation of a point of care POC test network for emergency animal disease diagnosis
- Project 9: MicroRNA biomarkers for improved detection of animal diseases in a Johne’s disease model
- Project 10: Developing an immunohistochemistry test for lumpy skin disease
- Project 11: Consultancy for policies, strategies and operating guidelines for point of care (POC) testing for infectious disease
- Project 18: National laboratory simulation exercise planning
- Project 28: A syndromic surveillance system to detect emerging animal biosecurity threats
- Project 36: National laboratory simulation exercise (Exercise Waterhole)
- Project 42: AUSVETPLAN Management manual: Laboratory preparedness
- Project 51: Equine piroplasmosis diagnostic capability development
Active Projects
- Project 12: Smallholder risk and communication research
- Project 37: Enhancement of One Biosecurity System
- Project 52: South Australian pig biosecurity project
Completed Projects
- Project 20: Building EAD preparedness in domestic abattoirs
- Project 28: A syndromic surveillance system to detect emerging animal biosecurity threats
- Project 43: National Biosecurity Manual for the Ratite Industry
- Project 63: Future of Australian Animal Health (2030-2035)
Other relevant activities
- Activity 3.2: The Farm Biosecurity awareness campaign is a joint initiative between Animal Health Australia (AHA) and Plant Health Australia (PHA) on behalf of their members. It will help producers identify and reduce the risks posed by diseases, pests and weeds to their crops and livestock. The campaign provides information about on-farm biosecurity measures that can help prevent endemic and exotic diseases, pests and weeds from entering and becoming established on farms.
Active Projects
Completed Projects
- No projects are currently underway.
Active Projects
Completed Projects
Active Projects
- Project 34: Agricultural Traceability Enhancement: Australian Government contribution
- Project 45: Alpaca National Livestock I dentification System (NLIS)
- Project 47: The National Agricultural Traceability Strategy 2023 to 2033
- Project 48: National mandatory individual electronic identification (eID) for sheep and goats
- Project 49: NLIS Database Uplift project
- Project 50: myFeedback data
Completed Projects
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