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The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Andrew Metcalfe AO, has announced his intention to retire from the Australian Public Service on 4 August 2023. Below is his message to his department, distributed on 13 June 2023.
Colleagues
It is with mixed emotions…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, July 2018
This report details food that was found to fail under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme during the month. For full data on activity and compliance under the Scheme refer to the six monthly Imported Food…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, January 2019
This report details food that was found to fail under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme during the month. For full data on activity and compliance under the Scheme refer to the six monthly…
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The Australian Government recovers the cost of delivering agricultural export regulatory services. Under the Australian Government Charging Framework, the department must regularly document changes to regulatory charging activities through a Cost Recovery Implementation Statement (CRIS). …
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This page lists timber preservative formulations (by chemical class as a list of acceptable trade names) that the department has approved for use as biosecurity treatments as well as the minimum preservative retention requirement for each formulation. To be accepted by the department,…
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Biosecurity Matters
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Biosecurity is the management of the risk of pests and diseases entering, emerging, establishing or spreading in Australia and causing harm to animals, plants or human…
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Authors: John Walsh, Tim Westwood and Mihir Gupta
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Demand tables – Murray-Darling Basin Water Market Catchment Dataset 2021 – XLSX [577 KB]
Supply tables – Murray-Darling Basin Water Market Catchment Dataset 2021 – XLSX [128 KB]
The MDB water market…
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Private vets have an important role to play in emergency animal disease responses in Australia.In 2011 an independent review into Australia’s preparedness for foot-and-mouth disease found that employment conditions in state and territory jurisdictions were not consistent. This could act as a…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 22 September 2022, troughs, low-pressure and frontal systems brought showers and scattered storms to large areas of eastern and southern Australia. Weekly rainfall totals exceeding 50 millimetres were…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 17 August 2022, low-pressure systems and cold fronts brought moderate to heavy rainfall across southern Australia. High-pressure systems over northern parts of the country resulted in clear, dry…
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