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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesFor the week ending 5 October 2022, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall scattered across parts of Australia. Weekly rainfall totals exceeding 50 millimetres were recorded in parts of south-eastern and western New South…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
During the week ending 23 June 2021, a blocking high pressure system restricted rainfall across most of Australia for much of the week. A low-pressure system off the southern coast and associated cold fronts brought some…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jeremy van Dijk
In 2014–15 rice production contributed 4 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Murray–Darling Basin (ABS 2017). Almost all of Australia’s rice production occurs in the NSW Murray and Murrumbidgee regions in the…
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Industry overview
Irrigated agriculture in the Murray–Darling Basin makes an important contribution to the Australian economy and regional economies. In 2014–15 the Basin accounted for 66 per cent of Australia’s total area irrigated and 40 per cent of the nation’s irrigating agricultural…
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2021–22 to 2023–24Recent farm performanceAn estimated 21% of Australian farm businesses are classified as broadacre cropping farms (18,000 farms), of which 9,300 were specialist cropping farms and a further 8,700 produced a mix of cropping and livestock ( see Methodology).Farm incomes for cropping…
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This indicator monitors the degree to which land is placed under appropriate tenure classifications or management regimes to protect Indigenous peoples’ values in forests. An acceptable level of accountability for the protection of Indigenous peoples’ cultural, religious, social and spiritual needs…
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The National Management Group (NMG) met on 22 September 2025 and agreed to standdown remaining eradication response activities under the Emergency Plant Pest Response Deed for tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBRFV), effective on this day, based on the advice of the Consultative Committee on…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesFor the week ending 31 August 2022, onshore flow brought moderate rainfall to parts of Queensland, while a low-pressure system and associated cold fronts brought light to moderate rainfall to south-eastern Australia.…
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This webpage has recently been updated. If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at: plantstakeholders@aff.gov.au.We have published import conditions for fresh mangosteen fruit from Indonesia. These are available on our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON).The decision to…
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In September 2012, the former Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, commissioned an independent review of the policy and legislation governing the Commonwealth’s fisheries…
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