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Fires in Australia's forests 2016–21 (2024)

​​Publication date: 28 October 2024​Fires in Australia’s Forests 2016–21 (2024) is a continental spatial dataset of the extent and frequency of planned and unplanned fires occurring in forest in the five financial years between July 2016 and June 2021, assembled for Australia's State of the Forests…
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Forests of Australia (2023)

Publication date: 15 December 2023Forests of Australia (2023) is a continental spatial ​dataset of forest extent, by national forest categories and types, assembled for the 2023 update of Indicator 1.1a for Australia's State of the Forests Report. It was developed from multiple forest, vegetation…
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2024-73: Plant Exports – 2024/25 end of year closure office arrangements

11 December 2024PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice is to advise industry stakeholders and Authorised Officers of the office arrangements for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s end of year closedown.Summary of changes and key pointsOur Canberra offices will be closed from close…
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Raw milk cheese

Improving access to imported food safety requirementsFrom mid-2025 imported food safety requirements will be incorporated into the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON).See more about the Inclusion of food safety requirements in BICON.All biosecurity requirements must be met before Imported…
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Vegetable seeds policy review

Australia depends heavily on imported seeds to produce a wide range of crops, including vegetables. Large quantities of these seeds are imported into Australia annually. The distribution of pathogens (that cause disease) associated with seed is expanding across the world and new biosecurity risks…
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The Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) process

The Weed Risk Assessment (WRA) process is a science-based biosecurity risk analysis tool for determining the weed potential of proposed new plant imports.The department conducts WRAs on all new plant…
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Biosecurity Advice 2017-01 - Fresh (chilled or frozen) beef and beef products from Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States and Vanuatu — draft review revised closing date for comment

​​9​ January 2017​​The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has revised the closing date for stakeholders to provide comments on the department’s draft report on its review of the import…
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Biosecurity Advice 2016/32 - Cooked turkey meat from the United States - Draft review revised closing date for stakeholder comments

4 October 2016​The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has revised the closing date for stakeholders to provide comments on Cooked turkey meat from the United States—draft review to 15 November…
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National Environment and Community Biosecurity Research, Development and Extension Strategy 2021-26

​Publication details The National Environment and Community Biosecurity Research, Development and Extension Strategy (NECBRDES) 2021-26 provides a framework and actions to develop a national coordinated and strategic approach to biosecurity research, development, and extension (RD&E) for…
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Military vessels

​All military vessels arriving in Australia must undergo a routine vessel inspection by a biosecurity officer at their first point of entry into Australian territory (unless invoking sovereign immunity).…
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