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This step-by-step guide will help you prepare your cat or dog for import into mainland Australia from Norfolk Island.While Norfolk Island is an Australian territory, there are plants, animals and pests that are unique to each region. This means you still need to meet certain import conditions for…
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12 March 2025Who does this notice affect?All clients who will be required to make an online payment during this planned outage.All clients attempting to submit permit applications and access invoices using the Department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.All…
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The National Management Group (NMG) met on 29 January 2025 and approved a five-year Response Plan inclusive of a cost-shared budget of $45.33 million for the National Electric Ant Eradication Program (NEAEP). The Response Plan demonstrates the long-term commitment from governments to eradicate…
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The National Biosecurity Management Group (NBMG) met on 21 May 2025 and approved a 3-year Response Plan inclusive of a cost-shared budget of $4 million for the National Browsing Ant Eradication Program (NBAEP) in the Northern Territory (NT).Browsing ant was first detected in the NT in June 2015 and…
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6 October, 2023
Who does this notice affect?
All air cargo importers who are waiting on Biosecurity officers to screen cargo.
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Start time:
As of: 13:40 Friday 06 October 2023 (AEDT).
Detail:
The Integrated Cargo System (ICS) is currently experiencing an unplanned outage. As a…
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Publication detailsDepartment of Agriculture and Water Resources, September 2017This brochure provides more details about the Australian Government’s commitment of $200 million over four years for…
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You now have the opportunity to provide feedback on draft legislation that proposes to modernise the agricultural levies legislation.
The draft legislation available on our Have Your Say webpage for your consideration are:
the draft Bills (excluding consequential and transitional arrangements…
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11 January 2019Who does this notice affect?Stakeholders in the import and shipping industries—including vessel masters, freight forwarders, treatment providers, Biosecurity Industry Participants, importers…
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We inspect and test food imports under our Imported Food Inspection Scheme.
Our sampling procedure makes sure the correct number of samples are taken from a consignment of food when it is referred for testing.
Sampling rate
The rate of sampling we apply is set out in the Imported Food Control…
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The Tasmanian Forests Intergovernmental Agreement was an initiative made between the then Prime Minister, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, and the then Premier of Tasmania, the Hon Lara Giddings MP, on 7 August 2011.$277 million, including $15 million from the Tasmanian Government, was…
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