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The department’s website provides translated information for people from non-English speaking backgrounds. The information includes educational and awareness material relating to biosecurity, and animal and plant health. The languages include:LanguagesArabic / العربيةBahasaChinese Traditional /…
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The National Management Group (NMG) for Varroa destructor endorsed the national plan for Transition to Management on 9 February 2024.
The NMG recognised the significant efforts from NSW and the Consultative Committee on Emergency Plant Pests to develop the plan.
The costs of the response,…
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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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OverviewAnimal Health Australia and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia funded the development of an app, Sheep EAD AR. This app is available in the Apple, Google play and Microsoft App Stores.Producers and other stakeholders can use the app on mobile devices and the…
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OverviewPhase 1 of this project described how VR could be used to create cost-effective and expandable training applications for animal handling and biosecurity. Based on the results of phase 1, and improvements in technology, a second phase was commissioned.Phase 2 involved trialling an updated VR…
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[expand all]Executive SummaryThe Council of Australian Governments (COAG) directed the Primary Industries Ministerial Council (now the Standing Council on Primary Industries [SCoPI]) to bring forward a…
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This is Supporting information for Indicator 6.5c, published July 2024.Data sourcesData for this Indicator were drawn from the 2021 Census of Population and Housing (ABS 2021a) and 2016 Census of Population and Housing (ABS 2016).Forest and wood products industries are defined here using the…
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Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous CommunitiesCherbourg is an Aboriginal community located 265 km north-west of Brisbane on the land of the Wakka Wakka peoples. Companion animals are an important part of this community. However, concerns about the growing population of owned but free-…
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Rural Research and Development update - September 2011
Background
The Rural Research and Development (R&D) Council is the government’s key advisory body on rural R&D. The principal goal…
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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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