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The department is responsible for protecting our animal health. We place a high priority on education and awareness to prevent pest and disease incursions, and we ensure robust and tested response plans are in place should an outbreak occur.
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Animal pests and diseases…
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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 Environmental Biosecurity Project Fund (EBPF) supports research, innovation and public education projects that help protect Australia from exotic environmental pests, weeds and diseases. Exotic environmental pests are weeds, animals or diseases that are not present in Australia, or are under…
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The Agricultural Workforce Working Group (the Working Group) met for the second time on 15 November 2022. This tripartite group, comprising representatives of agriculture and processing employers and unions, along with government, was created as an outcome of the Government’s Jobs and Skills Summit…
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What can data from the Census of Population and Housing tell us about changes in agricultural employment?
Authors: Neil Barr and Robert Kancans
Note: Derived from analysis of historic data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing (CPH). Limitations of…
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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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Hundreds of social and economic impacts of forestry could potentially be monitored over time, including the impacts of the forest industry on human wellbeing, employment, local and regional…
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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 trialing an updated VR…
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OverviewThis project saw Mintrac partner with industry and government to deliver a suite of EAD preparedness training materials specific to abattoir personnel. This included sample standard operating procedures and an online eLearning course.This training package was designed to help prepare…
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