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Pest and disease surveillance at Australia’s borders

The department has rigorous and highly effective import declaration, inspection and import treatment requirements in place to reduce the risk of harmful pests and diseases getting into and establishing in Australia.Despite this, a small percentage of imported items may still contain a hitchhiking…
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Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) contacts

Torres Strait – Thursday Island (Waiben) Biosecurity Office Street Address: Ground Floor, Pearls Building Victoria Parade Waiben QLD 4875 Phone: +61 7 4212 0185 Northern Peninsula Area of Cape York Phone: +61 7 4241 7952 Cairns Street Address: Fitzroy Building 114, Catalina Crescent…
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Preparing your personal effects for shipment to Australia

​​Some personal effects have the potential to bring pests or disease into Australia and need to be declared. The list below is designed to assist you identify which goods may be of biosecurity concern and may require cleaning or treatment prior to release. If this is not possible, the items may…
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Australia’s biosecurity market access and agricultural exports - Case study of citrus exports to ASEAN countries

Summary ABARES has applied a paddock-to-plate framework to examine key drivers of Australia’s citrus export growth following biosecurity market access. This case study is part of a broader ABARES research program that aims to inform governments and other agricultural industries in prioritising and…
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Indigenous rangers roundtable informs future of northern Australia’s biosecurity

Biosecurity and safeguarding were front of mind at the Indigenous Rangers Biosecurity roundtable in the Northern Territory.Held on Larrakia Country, it was the first major in-person ranger event since 2019.Indigenous Ranger organisations contracted to undertake biosecurity surveillance are…
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Celebrating 30 years of co-operative biosecurity in northern Australia

In 2019 the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment and its partners marked 30 years of continuous operations under the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS). The NAQS initiative commenced in July 1989, initially as a 3-year trial focussed on early detection of incursions of…
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Environmental biosecurity

Australia's natural assets including clean air, soil and water underpin our agricultural productivity. They also support the way of life we enjoy, including our love for the outdoors , healthy food production and a prosperous economy.Environmental biosecurity protects these natural assets from…
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Application of a new method based on portfolio theory to inform the allocation of plant health surveillance resources in northern Australia

Tony Arthur, Fiona Giannini, Barbara Waterhouse, Belinda Barnes and James Walker Photo: Kerry Trapnell The Plant Health Surveillance Program, a component of the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy's (NAQS) biosecurity surveillance operations, conducts…
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Studying in Australia

If you are an international student planning to study in Australia, it is important to check Australia’s biosecurity requirements before you pack.Certain food, plant material and animal products from overseas cannot be brought into Australia because they may be carrying serious pests and diseases…
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