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Australia’s illegal logging law reformsAs of 3 March 2025, Australia’s illegal logging laws have changed. Importantly, this includes changes to due diligence requirements for importers and processors of regulated timber and timber products.The Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012 has been updated…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, August 2016DownloadDocument Pages File type File size Biosecurity Fact Sheet: Fresh date fruit from the Middle East and North Africa region 2PDF 540…
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Dr Leslie David SimsDr Leslie David Sims is a highly experienced veterinarian with a passion for preventing infectious diseases of production animals, especially those that also affect humans. He started his career as a laboratory diagnostician in the Victorian public sector and used these…
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Registrations open for Narrogin Regional Outlook conference
Registrations are now open for the Narrogin Regional Outlook conference on Tuesday 28 August. Join ABARES and delegates from around the Central…
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Australia's commercial fishing and aquaculture industry is worth around $3.6 billion per year (ABARES 2023) and employs about 17,000 people (ABARES 2019). Each year, Commonwealth managed fisheries generate over $370 million in value alone, which represents about 27% of the total value of…
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Australia is free of rabies, and we want to keep it that way. This is why we have introduced new biosecurity measures for importing cats and dogs into Australia.
From 1 March, some cats or dogs entering Australia will need to undergo 30 days quarantine at our Post Entry Quarantine facility in…
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Australia has a favourable animal health status. We are free from many of the economically important diseases that occur in other parts of the world.Laboratory diagnostics are key components of Australia’s animal health system.Quality assured diagnostics:detect emergency and emerging animal…
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Episode: Nov 2024Presenters: Professor Gerry Cassis, University of New South Wales. Dr Marcos Roca-Cusachs, University of New South Wales. Associate Professor Cristiano Schwertner, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.Summary: The Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB) has been one of the most…
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Australia is free of the world's worst animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease and avian influenza H5N1. Animal pests and diseases are a major threat to Australia's livestock and poultry industries and an outbreak could impact on our access to export markets and undermine livelihoods. Exotic…
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Food is one of Australia’s most important exports. We export about 70 per cent of the food we produce.
International food standards support the trade of safe food. We need to be involved with developing these standards.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) is an intergovernmental body that…
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