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Significant events in the history of NAQs

Historical events before the establishment of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy1908The Quarantine Act 1908 receives royal assent, providing a national approach to quarantine for the first time after State Premiers agree to hand over administration of quarantine to the Commonwealth in 1906.…
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MAA 2024-02: Great Britain (United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland): Honey: Health certificates are no longer required to export edible honey and apiculture products from 30 April 2024

Date of issue: 30 April 2024Date of effect: 30 April 2024Reference Number: MAA 2024-02AttentionIndustries—Industry bodies – Australian Honey Bee Industry CouncilHoney export listed establishmentsExporters NEXDOC usersDepartment of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — Central and regional…
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MAA 2024-09: Great Britain (United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland): Export of milk and milk products – certificate exemptions for low-risk products from 30 April 2024

Date of issue: 4 April 2024Date of effect: 30 April 2024Reference Number: MAA 2024-09AttentionIndustries—Industry bodies – Dairy Australia – Infant Nutrition Council, Dairy Export Industry Consultative Committee, Australian Food and Grocery CouncilDairy Export establishmentsExporters, AEPI and…
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2024-04: Fish and Fish Products: Great Britain (the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland): Health Certificates no longer required for low-risk products from 30 April 2024

Date of issue: 3 April 2024Date of effect: From 30 April 2024Reference Number: MAA 2024-04Attention:Industries—Industry bodies – Seafood Export Consultative Committee, Seafood Trade Advisory Group, Seafood Industry AustraliaExport establishmentsExporters, AEPI and EXDOC usersDepartment of…
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Biosecurity Business Grants Program

Background Northern Australia’s vast, sparsely populated 10,000-kilometre coastline is the frontline for many high-risk animal and plant pests and diseases. Biosecurity risks can reach Australia through the movement of people and goods by sea and air, through traditional visits between Papua New…
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Amendments to the Animals Rules for live sheep exports to, or through, the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere Summer

The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is reviewing sheep exports by sea to, or through, the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere summer (1 May to 31 October). As an interim measure to continue to manage heat stress risks and to provide sufficient time for industry to…
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Application of a new method based on portfolio theory to inform the allocation of plant health surveillance resources in northern Australia

Tony Arthur, Fiona Giannini, Barbara Waterhouse, Belinda Barnes and James Walker Photo: Kerry Trapnell The Plant Health Surveillance Program, a component of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy's (NAQS) biosecurity surveillance operations, conducts…
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Supporting our near northern neighbours to achieve rabies “Zero by 30”

Preventing and controlling emergency animal diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease, lumpy skin disease, and dog-mediated rabies requires collaborative efforts. Australia has been strengthening pre-border biosecurity efforts to control dog-mediated rabies through assistance to our near northern…
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Assessment of northern China's fruit fly pest free areas: Hebei, Shandong and Xinjiang

6 March 2009 Biosecurity Australia Advice 2009/04 This Biosecurity Australia Advice informs stakeholders that Biosecurity Australia has undertaken an assessment for recognition of northern China…
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Media statement: Additional stakeholder engagement on the review of live sheep exports by sea during the Northern Hemisphere summer

The department is undertaking additional stakeholder engagement on the review into the regulatory settings for the export of live sheep by sea to, or through, the Middle East during the Northern Hemisphere summer. The additional engagement follows high levels of interest in the review and…
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