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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
For the week ending 23 November 2022, cold fronts across southern Australia brought significant rainfall and strong winds. Weekly rainfall totals exceeding 50 millimetres were observed across alpine areas of New South Wales…
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Kasia Mazur, Andrea Bath, Robert Curtotti and Rupert Summerson
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The main objective of this project is to estimate and value the non-market environmental benefits to the community from reducing the risk of marine pest incursions in Australia’s waters. A non-market valuation method,…
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The following indicators provide information that can assist in monitoring the social and economic impacts of the forest industry on the people who depend on forestry for their livelihood, by analysing…
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Five–yearly Review of NSW’s RFAs
An important element of each of the NSW RFAs is the requirement for a five–yearly review of the performance of the RFAs. Clauses 38, 39, 40 and 41 of the Eden RFA, Clauses 40, 41, 42 and 43 of the North East RFA, and Clauses 38, 39, 40 and 41 of the Southern…
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Animals coming into Australia must spend time at specially equipped biosecurity stations to ensure they are free of disease before being released. Fees are charged by the biosecurity station for housing…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry uses a range of scientific, intelligence and evidence-based information to set the measures for managing risks associated with arriving goods and cargo. This includes targeting containers:that pose greater biosecurity risksare from known high-…
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Australia exercises strict biosecurity measures designed to protect plant and animal health.
All machinery imported into Australia must be free from contamination such as seeds, soil, plant and animal materials
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesFor the week ending 2 March 2022, low-pressure troughs have continued to bring heavy rainfall to eastern parts of the country. The rainfall has resulted in significant flooding to parts of northern New South Wales and south-…
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Edwardsiella ictaluri – a significant pathogen of fish
Edwardsiella ictaluri, of theFamily Enterobacteriaceae, is a gram negative, rod–shaped bacterium that causes significant disease in a range of…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
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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