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Did you know a bouquet of flowers could lead to a not-so-pretty bloom: an outbreak of plant pests or diseases?
International travellers arriving in Australia can bring fresh cut flowers and foliage as long as they’re declared. This means they’re inspected…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 10 October 2023, a trough brought heavy rainfall, up to 100 millimetres, and damaging winds to southeastern Australia earlier in the week. Cold fronts brought showers to western Tasmania. A high-pressure…
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Weekly Australian Climate,
Water and Agricultural Update
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For the week ending 22 March 2023, surface troughs and thunderstorm activity brought rainfall to the north and east of the country. Weekly rainfall totals of between 15 and 100 millimetres were recorded across most of the…
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Weekly Australian Climate,Water and Agricultural UpdateDue to Anzac Day public holiday, the Weekly Australian Climate, Water and Agricultural Update will not be published next week Thursday 25 April 2024. The next Weekly Update will be published on Thursday 2 May 2024.Key issuesIn the week ending…
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We’ve strengthened import requirements for live plants (nursery stock) to…
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06 February 2025PurposeThis Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses to export Hass avocados to Japan, Thailand, and India.Summary of changes and key pointsApplications are now open for farms and packhouses…
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When levies and export charges applyLevyLevy applies to vegetables harvested in Australia if the person who owns them immediately after harvest:sold the vegetablesprocessed the vegetables themselves, orhad the vegetables processed by another person.Export chargeExport charge applies to…
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29 September 2025Who does this notice affect?This notice applies to importers of plant, animal and biological goods and brokers who bring or import goods to the Australian mainland.Importers are advised that the Biosecurity (Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Determination 2021 (the Goods…
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13 July 2020
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This Industry Advice Notice (IAN) is to advise industry that applications are now open for the accreditation of farms and packhouses to export Hass avocado to Japan for the 2020 season.
Summary of changes and key points
Applications are now open for farms and packhouses…
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10 August 2012
This Biosecurity Advice notifies stakeholders of the release of the Provisional final import risk analysis report for fresh ginger from Fiji.
The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) recommends that the import of fresh ginger rhizomes to Australia…
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