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This week marks 50 years of NAIDOC week and we honour the First Nations people’s deep and enduring connection to Country and Traditional Knowledge. Combined they play a vital role in protecting Australia’s unique plants, animals and ecosystems.This year’s theme, The Next Generation: Strength,…
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Publication date: 15 December 2023Tenure of Australia’s forests (2023) is a continental spatial dataset of national land tenure types, assembled for Australia's State of the Forests Report – 2023 update. It was developed from land tenure information from multiple sources, including…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, 2014The plant residue testing datasets 2013-14 outline testing that was carried out on plant products in the 2013-14 financial year, under the National…
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We have completed a final report for fresh breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga risk analysis. We will now verify that these countries can meet the import conditions.
When we do a risk analysis, we:
review the science on pests and diseases of concern
assess and…
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With the explosion of citizen science platforms such as iNaturalist, which allow members of the public to upload occurrence records of species detected in Australia, an opportunity exists to use these platforms as an early warning system for the detection of exotic plant pests.This is particularly…
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In 2019 the department commissioned Ernst & Young to undertake an independent review of the costs of our export certification activities. These costs were set out in the 2020-21 food and plant export Cost Recovery Implementation Statements (CRIS). This review informed our public consultation…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry regulates the movement of aircraft, goods and passengers from Torres Strait under the Biosecurity Act 2015.
This includes the monitoring of aircraft arriving on mainland Australia from designated biosecurity zones in Torres Strait, to…
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The WRA system is a question-based assessment of the weed potential of plants proposed for import.Assessment involves answering up to 49 questions on specific characteristics of a plant. The answers…
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Access to safe and effective agricultural and veterinary (agvet) chemicals is important to Australian agricultural and livestock industries, the community and the environment.The Australian Government provides funding support through the Access to Industry Priority Uses of Agvet Chemicals program…
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The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry manages 10 quotas under the Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (A-UK FTA), including sugar.
Australian exporters can export sugar at a 0% tariff rate under the following quota volumes.
Year of agreement
Quantity (MT…
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