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The Animal Welfare Task Group (AWTG) promotes the national consistency of farm animal welfare regulations across jurisdictions and oversees the development and review of standards and guidelines for farm animals. It resolves animal welfare policy and regulatory matters which have national and inter…
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10 June 2025Who does this notice affect?All clients required to use the department’s Biosecurity Import Conditions System (BICON) during this planned outage.InformationTo support system maintenance, BICON will be unavailable from 23:00 Saturday 14 June to 01:00 Sunday 15 June 2025 (AEST).Following…
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OverviewThis project redeveloped the CSIRO Sample Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) network. This aimed to enhance biosecurity and laboratory management system interoperability at both national and jurisdictional levels.The enhanced STARS network led to an improved national coordination of…
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Issue Date: 24 January 2014Date of Effect: ImmediateDate of Expiry: 1 February 2015Contact Officers:Christine Coulson
Director, Operational Integrity
Export Meat
Program
Ph 02 6272 3933
Email…
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Australian honey beekeepers are asked to conduct alcohol washing on their hives to check for exotic bee pests.
Alcohol washing is a quick and effective surveillance method to detect exotic mites. The early detection and reporting of new pests gives industry and government the best chance of…
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The tables on this page can be used to calculate how much available tariff rate quota is remaining for all the quotas administered by the Quota Unit at the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry.Australia-India Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement (AI-ECTA) quota positionQuota…
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17 June 2016Who does this notice affect?The illegal logging laws affect businesses that import regulated timber and timber products of specific Customs tariff codes within Chapters 44 (wood and wood…
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In January 2019, the department commenced an investigation into allegations reported in the media that live export workers had been offered money to obtain and leak footage of animal cruelty on export vessels.The investigation also inquired into allegations that ‘whistleblowers’ had offered to cut…
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7 September 2015
This Biosecurity Advice informs stakeholders that the Department of Agriculture has reviewed the 2003 policy on stockfeed with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (…
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Australia's forests at a glance is a pocket-book compendium of data and information about Australia's native forests and industrial plantations.
The pocket-book covers forest types, areas and how native forests - including old growth forests - are conserved and managed. It also covers wood…
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