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Under section 40-G of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 primary producers and other rural businesses earning income from the land may be eligible for tax deductions for fencing erected to prevent land degradation. To be eligible, fences must be erected to separate different land classes in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 8 February 2023, low-pressure systems and associated troughs remained active and resulted in widespread rainfall and localised thunderstorm, mainly in tropical northern Australia.
Reduced rainfall across…
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Our vision is a more sustainable and prosperous Australia through biosecurity, agricultural production and trade.We maintain and create agricultural export opportunities, to provide gains for Australian agriculture, fishing and forestry. We manage biosecurity risks to Australia to protect our multi…
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The National Management Group (NMG) met on 14 May 2024 and approved the revised budget for the red witchweed (Striga asiatica) Response Plan 2022 – 2025 (originally endorsed on 13 December 2023).The NMG agreed red witchweed remains technically feasible and cost-beneficial to eradicate from…
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31 March 2023
Who does this notice affect?
Offshore biosecurity treatment providers, and associated industry members, operating under one of the department’s government to industry offshore treatment assurance schemes.
What has changed?
We are seeking feedback on how we manage offshore…
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From August 2025, we will start to implement new risk management measures for import of dairy products for human consumption. This will include negotiation of new health certificates with trading partners.The transition to new measures will take 12 months to complete.We will negotiate with…
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A Biosecurity Advice notice is a notice that informs stakeholders about the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources - Biosecurity's work. Biosecurity …
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This page outlines the information that must be included with an application to import various types of animal feed.
Livestock feeds
The following sets out the requirements for applying to import stockfeed, stockfeed additives and stockfeed ingredients into Australia.
Please ask all facilities…
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54-2024: Services Restored: 25 March 2024 – Imports Request for Inspection Western Australia Mailbox
25 March 2024Who does this notice affect?Biosecurity industry participants including approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who were sending email correspondence to the department’s Imports – Request for Inspection Western Australia (WA)…
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The Department of Agriculture is committed to improving agricultural outputs, and animal disease identification, management and reporting, through industry education and training.
As part of this commitment we are supporting a series of animal health surveillance projects in 2018 and 2019…
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