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The Animal Health Committee maintains the policy and procedure for the development and evaluation of new laboratory tests for animal health laboratories in Australia.
Procedure to develop and evaluate new veterinary laboratory tests
1. Background
The Subcommittee on Animal Health Laboratory…
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Personal effects and household goods are the unaccompanied items transported into Australia, by a returning resident or a new resident of Australia, via sea or air freight.
To import goods under the tariff code for personal effects, you must be arriving from a place outside Australia, and the…
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Tim Kane
Key points
Foot-and-mouth disease is not present in Australia.
It has recently been detected in neighbouring Indonesia for the first time in 30 years.
Border settings have been adjusted to keep Australia foot-and-mouth disease free as Indonesia gets this under control.
While…
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We are working to provide updated information relating to the reformed Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012 and Illegal Logging Prohibition Rules 2024, which come into effect on 3 March 2025. Please check back regularly as we will be providing answers to common questions relating to these changes.…
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Detect and Protect
An Australian biosecurity podcast
Episode 8
Host: Steve Peios
Guest: Dr Adrian Dinsdale
Dr Adrian Dinsdale, Assistant Director at the Plant Innovation Centre (PIC) at Post Entry Quarantine (PEQ), explains how game-changing technological advancements such as the…
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Receive the latest newsSubscribe to the specific ‘Biosecurity Non-Commercial Vessel News’.Subscribe to Import Industry Advice Notices provide updates and notices that are useful to our industry partners such as process changes (such as commercial and non-commercial vessel related changes or…
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Afforestation
Afforestation is the establishment of new forest in an area that was not previously covered by forest.
Agroforestry
See farm forestry.
Apiculture
The keeping of honey bees.
Biological…
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Author: Linden Whittle
The remains of a forest in Australia's Blue Mountains after the 2020 bushfires.
Introduction
For the Australian forest and wood processing sectors, 2019–20 has been a tumultuous year. Beginning in September 2019, bushfires burnt across eastern and southern Australia,…
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27 July 2018This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders of the new import conditions for breaded, battered and crumbed (BBC) prawns imported for human consumption. All BBC prawns imported into Australia…
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This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders that, pending consideration of comments received during the comment period, new import conditions for breaded, battered and crumbed (BBC) prawns imported…
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