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The giant African snail is one of the world’s largest and most damaging land snails. Native to Eastern Africa, it has quickly spread around the world and is now established in most tropical countries. Australia is free from the giant African snail and we want to keep it that way.
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28 May 2021Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including Master Consolidators, vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, and principal agents— associated with shipping or…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 23 August 2023, frontal systems and a trough brought showers to southern parts of Australia. Up to 50 millimetres of rainfall was recorded in parts of Western Australia, eastern New South Wales and in…
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DownloadDocumentPagesFile sizeIncorporation of GIS Mapping Software in the National Wildlife Surveillance Database PDF 539 KBIf you have difficulty accessing this file, please visit
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This section presents results for each of the indicators tested in this case study. The key uses and limitations of each indicator are explained, and conclusions are drawn as to its usefulness of the…
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The Plant Health Committee (PHC) held its forty-seventh meeting in the Yarra Valley, Victoria in June 2015. During the meeting, two field trips were undertaken: the first to a vineyard in the…
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11 July 2016PurposeTo advise industry of the key requirements for onshore cold treatment of horticulture exports to China and Thailand.Summary of changes and key pointsGeneral requirementsAn onshore…
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Import conditions for fresh strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa) from Japan have been published on our Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON). Import permits will now be issued.
The decision to commence imports will be a commercial decision between an exporter in Japan and an…
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An import request is a proposal made to bring goods into Australia. Import requests are also referred to as ‘import proposals’ or ‘market access requests’.Each year Australia receives a significant number of import requests for a variety of different commodities. To ensure we limit the risk of…
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