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Rabies is one of the world’s most deadly infectious diseases and can spread from animals to humans.
It is present in 150 countries and territories and globally, tens of thousands of people die from rabies each year.
Australia is free from rabies. But without vigilance and strong biosecurity…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has announced biosecurity detector dog Qubit as the ‘Top Dog’ of 2022.
Acting Secretary of the Department and acting Director of Biosecurity, Dr Chris Locke, said the department awards the ‘Top Dog’ title to a detector dog and handler team who…
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We publish a list of documents we have released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests as required by the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). We publish these documents within 10 business days of release to the FOI applicant.
All information included in this log is available…
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Australia’s artificial light pollution guidelines for wildlife have been endorsed by the 13th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (COP13) in Gandhinagar, India.
The Light Pollution Guidelines for Wildlife including Marine Turtles,…
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Introduction
On 26 June 2014 the Senate referred the matter of the National Landcare Program’s performance, effectiveness and future to the Environment and Communications References Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report.
The history, effectiveness, performance and future of the…
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The Department is upgrading the Oracle database that supports a number of our systems
What systems will be affected?
The following systems will experience an outage from 9am Saturday 9 April to 5pm Sunday 10 April:
Shipwrecks - Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage database
PSO -…
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The Australian Government recognises feral cats are a serious vertebrate pest in Australia that have severe to devastating effects on native fauna. The Government has long recognised predation by feral cats as a threat to Australian fauna with a listing as a key threatening process under…
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The Australian Government welcomed the Second Progress report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade PFAS Sub-committee’s Inquiry into PFAS remediation in and around Defence bases.
The Government’s continued focus in responding to PFAS contamination is…
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