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If you notice sick or dead birds or other animals, you should not touch them. If there are multiple dead birds or other animals, take photos or a video.Record your location and report it to the 24-hour Emergency Animal Disease Hotline on 1800 675 888.You can find and download our resources in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 18 May 2022, onshore winds and a low-pressure trough across eastern Australia resulted in substantial rainfall in the east of the country, with cold fronts resulting in moderate rainfall in the west and…
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This indicator measures the conservation status of nationally listed threatened forest dwelling species. Documentation of this information over time allows analysis of changes to species’ conservation status indicating the extent to which forest species biodiversity is being maintained.This is the…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 19 October 2022, low-pressure systems to the south of Australia and an associated cold front brought significant rainfall to much of south-eastern Australia. Weekly rainfall totals exceeding 50 millimetres…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 13 October 2021, weak low-pressure troughs across much of Australia resulted in isolated showers across central Australia. In the middle of the week, a low-pressure system and associated cold…
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Publication detailsDepartment of Agriculture and Water Resources, September 2018DownloadDocumentPagesFile sizeNorthern Territory Roundtable Summary Report - 27 September 2018, Darwin PDF151.5 MBIf you have difficulty accessing this file, please visit web accessibility.Online contentThe 2018…
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Authors: Neal Hughes, David Galeano and Steve Hatfield-Dodds
Farm in drought conditions in the far north west of New South Wales, Australia.
The current drought across much of eastern Australia has demonstrated the dramatic effects that climate variability can have on farm businesses and…
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Authors: Dale Ashton and Jay Gomboso
The southern Murray–Darling Basin has around one-fifth of Australia’s total dairy farms. In 2014–15 irrigated dairy production contributed 17 per cent of the total gross value of irrigated agricultural production in the Basin (ABS 2016).
Dairy farming in…
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Rising interceptions
In 2020, Australia saw a marked increase in khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium) interceptions. These tiny but hardy insects – or their remains – were found in goods they had previously not been found with, and in shipments from countries not known to have khapra beetle.…
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14 November 2018This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders of the release of the draft reportfor the Draft Pest Risk Analysis for Cut Flower and Foliage Imports—Part 1. The draft report supports…
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