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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
Key issues
In the week ending 21 February 2024, a tropical low (07U) embedded into a monsoon trough developed over the Top End of the Northern Territory at the beginning of the week and strengthened into a category 1 Tropical Cyclone…
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Dr James Camac and CEBRA, School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne’s Dr James Camac and CEBRA, School of BioSciences has received a 2022 Australian Biosecurity Award in the Education category.
Biosecurity: Managing Invasive Species (NRMT90002), taught at the…
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The Australian Government recognises feral cats are a serious vertebrate pest in Australia that have severe to devastating effects on native fauna. The Government has long recognised predation by feral cats as a threat to Australian fauna with a listing as a key threatening process under…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateKey issuesIn the week ending 8 January 2025, low-pressure systems brought rainfall to the north, east, and west of Australia:Many northern cropping regions recorded considerable rainfall totals (between 5–50 millimetres across large areas of…
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Aquaculture has had another successful year within the Australian seafood industry, according to the latest edition of ABARES Australian Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics.
Acting ABARES Executive Director David Galeano said the gross value of fishery and aquaculture production (GVP) in 2021-22…
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21 August 2025On 15 July 2025, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry released the draft report on biosecurity import requirements for guava fruit from Taiwan. Public consultation is open for 60 days via the Have Your Say platform, closing 13 September 2025.Shortly after…
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Exporters must meet our minimum animal health and welfare conditions to export livestock. These are outlined in the Australian Standards for the Export of Livestock (ASEL). ASEL applies to cattle, sheep, goats, buffalo, deer, and camelids (including alpaca).We enforce ASEL under our regulatory…
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OverviewAustralian plantation statistics is published every year. It supports strategic forest industry planning and decision-making by presenting information on total plantation area, new planting and ownership.The plantation areas are presented by jurisdiction and National Plantation Inventory…
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Annual employment estimates
Estimates from 2021 Census
Table 2 Estimated employment in the Australian commercial fishing and aquaculture industry, 2021 a
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The Bee Friendly Farming (BFF) certification program, funded as part of the FDF Extension and Adoption of Drought Resilience Farming Practices Grants program, and delivered by The Wheen Bee Foundation, protects and promotes pollinator health on agricultural lands. It provides guidelines and…
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