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Australia’s First Biosecurity Detector Dog Handlers Part 2: Dog and Human Behaviour

Detect and Protect An Australian biosecurity podcast Series 2 Episode 3 Host: Casey Baines Guest: Harry Smithard Harry was one of the first detector dog handlers along with Rachel from our previous episode. In this podcast Harry outlines the initial challenges of the detector dog program…
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Antimicrobial Awareness Week

Detect and Protect An Australian biosecurity podcast Episode 3 Guest: Dr Mark Schipp, Australian Chief Veterinary Officer, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an issue that poses a serious and long-term threat to human and animal health in…
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Guides for exporting prescribed meat and meat products

Step 1: What you need to do to be ready and approved to exportThe regulation that applies to you will depend on the role you play in the export process. Please be aware that you can have more than one role.I manage a cattle farm, feedlot or saleyardHow to gain accreditation for a property to…
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Indicator 1.3b: Native forest and plantations of indigenous timber species which have genetic resource conservation mechanisms in place (2024)

This indicator uses the coverage and implementation of formal genetic resource conservation mechanisms as a measure of the degree to which timber species genetic resources are managed and conserved.This is Key information for Indicator 1.3b, published October 2024.Key pointsThere are 129 tree…
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Arrival of goods in Australia

The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry uses a range of scientific, intelligence and evidence-based information to set the measures for managing risks associated with arriving goods and cargo. This includes targeting containers:that pose greater biosecurity risksare from known high-…
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Routine tests

The Animal Health Committee maintains a list of routine tests for infectious animal diseases used by veterinary laboratories in Australia. The information presented in this test register was last updated in June 2014. For more up-to-date information, please contact the relevant laboratory directly…
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New South Wales North East Regional Forest Agreement

​​​The North East Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) is one of three RFAs in New South Wales, and comprises two sub regions: Upper North East and Lower North East. The Australian and New South Wales governments signed the North East RFA on 31 March 2000. The North East RFA was varied on 28 November…
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Australian agricultural trade and the COVID-19 pandemic

Authors: Jared Greenville, Heather McGilvray and Stephanie Black. Aerial scene of vineyard in Coonawarra region Australia featuring rows of grapes and vines. Introduction Australia’s agricultural trade has by and large continued unhindered by the COVID-19 pandemic. But for some sectors, such…
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Biosecurity Matters, Edition 1, 2021

​​​​​Biosecurity Matters   To receive an email notification of future editions, subscribe to Biosecurity Matters. 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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MV Bahijah livestock vessel updates

Update 9 April 2024The livestock vessel MV Bahijah has arrived safely in Israel after its consignment was exported from Australia on 3 March 2024.Mortalities onboard the vessel did not exceed the notifiable limit of 0.5% for cattle and 1% for sheep.The remaining livestock have been successfully…
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