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Australia’s illegal logging law reformsAs of 3 March 2025, Australia’s illegal logging laws have changed. Importantly, this includes changes to due diligence requirements for importers and processors of regulated timber and timber products.The Illegal Logging Prohibition Act 2012 has been updated…
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The definition of forest used by
Australia's National Forest Inventory is:
An area, incorporating all living and non-living components, that is dominated by trees having usually a single stem and a mature or…
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The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Andrew Metcalfe AO, has announced his intention to retire from the Australian Public Service on 4 August 2023. Below is his message to his department, distributed on 13 June 2023.
Colleagues
It is with mixed emotions…
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Authors: Joey Crowley-Shaw, Fred Litchfield & Tom Jackson
There is significant demand for high quality agricultural workforce data in Australia. This data is used by governments, industry bodies, research organisations and the farming community to measure and understand trends in labour…
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22 December 2020
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to remind industry and Authorised Officers (AOs) that the use of the Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) will be mandatory from 1 February 2021.
Summary of changes and key points
From 1 February 2021, PEMS will become the only…
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As the Technical Adoption Officer at the Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub, Keerah Steele travels long distances to meet cattle graziers across the Northern Gulf.Keerah works together with the Rural Financial Counselling Service North Queensland and Beef…
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What happens when I arrive in Australia?
On arrival in Australia you must present an Incoming Passenger Card. In it you must declare all items of interest to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of Home Affairs, such as food, items with seeds…
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NIMPIS – Unavailable pending redevelopmentFor further information about the outage please contact ABARES.
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13 April 2011Why is this non-regulated risk analysis being undertaken?
Australia is responding to a formal market access request for table grapes from Korea submitted in 2007.
Why is the risk…
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REDLINE 1800 803 006
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Redline is a free call service for people to confidentially report information about suspected breaches of Australian biosecurity, meat or food inspection laws. Breaches of Australian biosecurity, meat or food…
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