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7 May 2015Notes from the ChairThe Marine Pest Sectoral Committee (MPSC) held its ninth meeting (MPSC09) in Wellington, New Zealand in May 2015. This meeting was preceded by the biannual Industry…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 8 November 2023, troughs brought widespread showers and storms in Queensland and New South Wales, and in country’s northwest. The remainder of the country remained dry.
While welcomed, the rainfall…
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The Australian Agricultural Forecasting System (AAFS) is the system that ABARES uses to produce forecasts for Australia’s agricultural markets. Although AAFS has been in development and use since 1945, this is the first time that it has been documented.
Documentation supports peer review and…
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Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease of birds and can affect most wild and domesticated bird species. HPAI viruses are a subset of all avian influenza strains that are identified by certain molecular markers that are associated with the ability to cause severe disease and mortality…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 13 December 2023, troughs generated rainfall totals of up to 150 millimetres across tropical Northern Australia and South Australia. The movement of Tropical Cyclone Jasper brought rainfall in northeast…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 30 August 2023, fronts and troughs brought isolated showers to south-eastern parts of the country. A high-pressure system kept the remainder of the country dry and clear.
Across cropping regions, rainfall…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 24 July 2024, cold fronts and a series of troughs brought rainfall to southern Australia, while a high-pressure system kept the north and centre of the country largely dry.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 12 March 2025, Tropical Cyclone (TC) Alfred and low-pressure systems brought rainfall to eastern and northern AustraliaRainfall totals were low in southern cropping regions, with between 0-5 millimetres in Western…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 9 April 2025 low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to the north and east of Australia.High rainfall continued in much of northern and central Australia, including Queensland (5-200 millimetres), the…
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On 13 March 2023, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced the reallocation of unused quotas under their imported raw sugar tariff-rate quota (TRQ). Australia was allocated an additional 24,479 tonnes (11% of the unused quota balance). This is in addition to the initial allocation of 89,…
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