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Professor Peter Shergold AC
Centre for Social Impact
Australian School of Business Building
University of New South Wales
KENSINGTON NSW 2033
Dear Professor Shergold
Thank you for your…
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31 May 2017Who does this notice affect?Importers of fresh stone fruit from the USA under the following tariff codes:Cherries (Prunus avium)- (0809.29.00)Apricots (Prunus armeniaca)- (0809.10.00)Peaches, including nectarines (Prunus persica and P. persica var. nucipersica)- (0809.30.00)…
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OverviewApproved imports are limited to times of the year when conditions are unfavourable for pest establishment.Examples include restricting imports to certain seasons, or, alternatively, other import requirements may be reduced or removed during those low-risk periods.Evaluating the efficacy of…
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Carbon farming helps reduce your carbon footprintCarbon farming, as we have seen, reduces GHG emissions and stores carbon, which are essential to Australia’s response to climate change.A ‘carbon footprint’ or ‘greenhouse gas footprint’ is the amount of GHGs emitted minus the amount of carbon stored…
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Australia has a highly favourable animal health status. We are free from many cat and dog diseases. To protect our status, cats and dogs must undertake a period of quarantine upon arrival in Australia.This quarantine period allows us to:assess the required documentationmonitor the animal's health…
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Why biosecurity matters in northern AustraliaAustralia is free from many pests, diseases and weeds present in Southeast Asia and some Pacific countries. Their introduction could devastate our plant…
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18 November 2011
Biosecurity Australia Advice 2011/22 - Final pest risk analysis report for Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae associated with Actinidia propagative material
This Biosecurity…
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By accessing the information presented in this media, each user waives and releases the Commonwealth of Australia to the full extent permitted by law from all liability for loss or damage arising from the use of, or reliance on,…
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Community members will continue to be able to access free testing services for rabbits and hares, thanks to an Australian Government funded national disease monitoring program.
The National Rabbit Disease Monitoring Program is being delivered by CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency. Through…
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Avian influenza (bird flu) viruses circulate in wild waterfowl and can infect other wild birds. For most strains of bird flu, clinical disease in wild birds is rare. Some strains cause clinical disease and death in many wild bird species.A highly contagious strain of H5 bird flu is spreading…
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