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27 September 2021
Who does this notice affect?
All importers and customs brokers who lodge imported cargo documentation to the department for biosecurity assessment.
What has changed?
The department has made enhancements to the Cargo Online Lodgement System (COLS) and the Cargo Workload…
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Trade policy and reducing agricultural support have a strong role to play in guaranteeing international food security, according to the latest Insights report from ABARES.
Executive Director of ABARES Dr Jared Greenville said open trade is a big part of the solution to long-term food security.
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Authors: Mihir Gupta, Neal Hughes and Kai Wakerman-Powell Publication date: 7 February 2018OverviewThis paper presents a new econometric partial equilibrium model of water trade and irrigation activity within the southern…
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The Regional Investment Corporation (RIC) administers concessional loans on behalf of the Australian Government for:farm businessesdrought-affected small businessesother eligible businesses.The purpose of the loans is to improve the long-term resilience and profitability of eligible businesses.The…
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ABARES Working PaperPublished 28 November 2024Author: Will ChancellorIntroductionThis report presents the underlying measurement framework used for the ABARES Farmland Price Indicator , and is based on the working paper by Boult et al. (2023). It outlines the use of administrative data supplied by…
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Non-tariff measures: a revised methodology for the quantification of bilateral trade effects of policy measures at a product levelQuantification of the trade effects of non-tariff measures provides an important input for decision making. This technical paper outlines improvements to an earlier…
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13 March 2025Who does this notice affect?Approved arrangements operators, customs brokers, importers, manned depots, and freight forwarders who are required to book and manage requests for inspections through the Biosecurity Portal using the ‘Sign in with your Digital ID’ (myID) pathway.Approved…
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National Management Group Communiqué:High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in Victoria – 2025On 8 February 2025, Agriculture Victoria confirmed a new outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H7N8 in northern Victoria. Laboratory testing has confirmed that the HPAI H7N8 virus…
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Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, 2018The plant residue testing datasets 2017-18 outline testing that was carried out on plant products in the 2017-18 financial year, under the…
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The Biosecurity Act 2015 (the Biosecurity Act) explains how we manage biosecurity threats to plant, animal and human health in Australia and its external territories.
We manage biosecurity to ensure a very low level of risk. This draws a balance between protecting Australia from pests and…
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