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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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Climate change is having an impact on Australian agriculture, with farmers having to contend with higher temperatures and lower winter rainfall.
Despite these challenges, many farmers are adapting and adopting new technologies and practices to offset these effects.
The latest ABARES figures show…
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Biosecurity engagement: Proposed national action plan for community involvement in plant biosecurity (Consultation Summary Report).
Author: Heleen Kruger
An independent review of Australia’s quarantine and biosecurity arrangements for the Australian Government (Beale et al. 2008), stresses that…
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Indigenous Rangers play a key role in environmental biosecurity surveillance and land management.A deep connection to Country helps Indigenous Rangers recognise signs of ecological distress, unusual pests and signs of disease, making them frontline defenders in biosecurity surveillance and…
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Chrysomya bezziana
What to look for
Check any animals, birds or humans for wounds and for signs of maggots deep within the wound. Wounds that can become infested include husbandry wounds (for example ear-tagging, castration and dehorning) and relatively minor skin wounds (such as tick bites).…
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Natural resource management-related research is part of ABARES’ applied social research and analysis. Reports have been prepared for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, other government agencies, research and development corporations, and industry bodies.Australian Forests and…
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Efforts to stop exotic fruit flies from entering Australia mainland through the Torres Strait will continue after a revised five-year response was endorsed on 28 June 2021 by the National Management Group (NMG).
The Response Plan 2021-2026 outlines activities aimed at eradicating annual incursion…
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The annual ABARES Fishery Status Reports are an independent assessment of the biological status of commercial fish stocks and the economic status of fisheries managed, or jointly managed, by the Australian Government (Commonwealth fisheries).ABARES Annual Fishery Status Reports Map Data are digital…
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18 January 2013
This Biosecurity Advice (BA) invites stakeholders to provide comments on the ‘Draft review of policy: importation of grapevine (Vitis species) propagative material into…
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