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18 March 2025Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, offshore treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers, customs brokers, principal agents and master consolidators.What has changed?Following…
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On 17 March 2025, the 6th Philippines-Australia Agriculture Forum was held in Canberra. It was co-chaired by Ms Tina Hutchison, Deputy Secretary, Agriculture Trade and Regulation Group, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Atty. Asis G. Perez, Undersecretary for Policy, Planning…
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PLANT PEST
Leaf yellowing and wilting, and fruit pulp and bunch stalk/rachis discoloration from banana blood disease.Blomme et al. 2017.
Blood disease and moko diseaseExotic to AustraliaFeatures: Banana-infecting bacterial wilt diseases with infected plants showing striking symptoms, the leaves…
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Adult spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula
Spotted lanternflyExotic to AustraliaFeatures: Spotted lanternfly adults are up to 2.7 cm long and approximately 1.2 cm wide with large, visually striking wings. A hitchhiker that feeds on the sap of host plants, including economically…
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Non-tariff barriers: A multi-billion dollar burdenThis Insights paper summarises the impact of non-tariff barriers on agriculture and presents new modelling results that that show non-tariff barriers are equivalent to a 19% tariff and are a multi-billion dollar burden on Australian agricultural…
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26 June 2025PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to notify all Plant Exports Management System (PEMS) users, including plant export clients, exporters and authorised officers, of an outage to the PEMS system due to a production upgrade.Summary of changes and key pointsPEMS will be…
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National Management Group Communiqué:High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza H7 – 23 June 2025On 23 June 2025, the National Management Group (NMG) agreed that the Victorian response to the 2025 high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H7 outbreak has been successful with Agriculture Victoria announcing…
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AttentionIndustry stakeholders, including commercial importers and brokers importing consignments of food.PurposeTo advise stakeholders that revised draft arrangements for scheduling imported cargo inspections are now available for comment through the department’s 'Have Your Say’ platform.Key…
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AttentionStakeholders in the import industries including importers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, compliance agreement holders and biosecurity industry participants.PurposeTo advise stakeholders about the changes to regulatory charges for biosecurity and imported food activities that will…
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A woman has been prosecuted for illegally importing more than 62,000 kilograms of Thai food into Australia, for distribution on Sydney’s black market.The woman coordinated the importation of illegal pork products, insect-infested fresh fruit and vegetables, frog meat and raw prawns by misdeclaring…
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