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Forestry measuresThe Australian Government’s A Better Future for our Regions and A Future Grown in Australia policies, establish the government’s commitment to Australia’s forest industries. They aim to strengthen, support and continue a sustainable forestry sector now and into the future.The…
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Northern Australia is considered one of the ‘frontlines’ from a biosecurity perspective. There have been numerous plant pest/disease detections over the last 10 years in northern Australia, many of them significant in terms of costs (financial and social) to industry, the environment, and the…
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Summary of findings on the EC Interest Rate Subsidy of previous drought policy reviews
Matthews, K., Olson, N., File, G., Lawson, R., Kuhl, B., Davies, B., Moore, K., Gunthorpe, J. and Hood, C. 1997,…
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Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, April 2020
This report lists food that has failed under the Imported Food Inspection Scheme (IFIS).
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Risk food tests
We target and monitor food that poses a high or medium risk to public health. We…
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Jonathan Wong
Key points
Slaughter volumes are strongly correlated with the spread between export meat and domestic livestock prices.
Some workforce shortages may persist, but these are unlikely to impact slaughter capacity.
Instead, processors report…
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11 January 2019
Purpose
To advise industry that applications are now open for growers, packhouses and treatment facilities to export persimmons to Thailand in 2019.
Summary of changes and key points
Only farms located in Queensland are eligible to apply under the protocol agreement.
Growers…
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Date of effect: 01 July 2023
Attention
Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries — including imported food stakeholders, customs brokers, freight forwarders, vessel masters, biosecurity industry participants and shipping agents.
Purpose
The purpose of this notice is to advise industry…
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15 June 2023
Purpose
This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry and authorised officers of future updates to the Guideline: Inspection of empty bulk vessels for export, Work Instruction: Inspecting empty bulk vessels for export and the Guideline: Supporting documents for plant…
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Growing up in outback Queensland, Emily Harrington prepares for drought the same way she approaches her work at the Tropical North Queensland Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub (TNQ Hub).
She thinks ahead while meeting the needs of today.
Emily comes from a farming family that…
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The Agricultural Workforce Working Group (the Working Group) met for the ninth time on 14 August 2023.
Members noted the update provided by Senator the Hon Murray Watt, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, on progress achieved since the last meeting in attracting, skilling,…
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