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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 30 October 2024, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to western, northern, and eastern areas of Australia.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between 10 and 100 millimetres were recorded in…
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Biosecurity roundtables are hosted by state and territory governments on behalf of the National Biosecurity Committee. These focus on themes selected by the Committee and help inform topics for the National Biosecurity Forum.Purpose and scopeThe roundtables are an opportunity for participants to…
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Video transcript: New prawn import lawsAustralians love their prawns so much, we need to import them from overseas to keep up with demand.But we don’t want diseases arriving in Australia with those imports.Seafood disease experts have studied the biosecurity risks for prawn imports and recommend we…
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The Australian honey bee industry is composed of about 29,690 registered beekeepers. Around 2000 of these are considered to be commercial apiarists, each with more than 50 hives (average 400 – 800 hives).The European honey bee contributes directly to the Australian economy. The industry produces…
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Under the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Agreement, World Trade Organization (WTO) members are entitled to maintain a level of protection they consider appropriate to protect life or health within their territory.
We refer to this as the Appropriate Level of Protection (ALOP).
We…
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A letter of free sale is sometimes required for registering non-prescribed goods with an importing country authority prior to export.
If the importing country does not state that a letter of free sale is to be from Australia’s competent authority (that is, the department) one can instead be issued…
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24 December 2020
Who does this notice affect?
This notice is of interest to all vessel masters and shipping agents who represent international non-commercial vessel arrivals for the purposes of Australian biosecurity clearance.
What has changed?
Non-commercial vessels, including leisure boats,…
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Fankhauser Apples Submission
Fankhauser Apples
515 Old Drouin Road, Drouin, Vic 3818
Phone: +61 3 5625 2596
ABN: 87083.625717 ACN: 114 989 936
www.fankhauserapples.com.au
To whom it may concern,
I am a 4th generation apple grower from Drouin in Gippsland, Victoria.
I am writing to you in…
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When levies applyLevy applies to containers if:they are purchased by a person (whether from a person who operates in or outside Australia) andthe containers are designed to be immediate containers of nursery products andthey are purchased for the purpose of having nursery products in a…
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This is Supporting information for Indicator 1.1c, published July 2024.Forest in the National Reserve System by IUCN protected area categoryTo be protected and included in Australia’s National Reserve System (NRS), an area of land must meet the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)…
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