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Introduction
On 16 October 2018, the Senate referred the following matters to the Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee for inquiry and report by 1 February 2019:
The independence of regulatory decisions made by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines…
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Animal Health Committee (AHC), March 2020
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The Import Risk Analysis process
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Why is this risk analysis being undertaken?
The Department of Agriculture helps people and goods move in and out of Australia while keeping Australia safe and protecting our industries from pests and diseases that exist in many…
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It is a requirement of each Victorian Regional Forest Agreement (RFA) that its performance is reviewed every five years to provide an assessment of progress made against the RFAs, and includes:
the extent to which milestones and obligations have been met, including the management of the…
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We are improving the effectiveness and consistency of the pest risk analysis (PRA) process. A key step in this process is the development of a group PRA approach.
In a PRA, we evaluate the evidence to determine whether an organism:
is a pest
needs regulation
needs phytosanitary measures…
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Release of Final report for the non-regulated analysis of existing policy for fresh mangosteen fruit from Indonesia
June 2012
Non-regulated analysis of existing policy
Why was this non-regulated…
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Concern about exotic and emerging disease threats has prompted interest by animal health agencies involved in preparedness and planning to use decision support tools such as animal disease modelling. Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) continues to represent the most serious threat to Australian…
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May 2024IntroductionOn Thursday, 1 April 2021, the then Assistant Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, the Hon Jonathon Duniam, asked the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture and Water Resources (the Committee) to inquire into the Australian aquaculture sector.In February 2022…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 30 October 2024, low-pressure systems and troughs brought rainfall to western, northern, and eastern areas of Australia.Across cropping regions, rainfall totals of between 10 and 100 millimetres were recorded in…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 29 January 2025, low-pressure systems brought rainfall to the north and east of Australia:Some rainfall was recorded across northern cropping regions, but falls were highly variable, with between 10–50 millimetres…
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