The manual was published in September 2023.

The manual was endorsed by Animal Health Committee in April 2024 and published on the Animal Health Australia website.

Animal Health Australia and the Department of Primary Industries and Regions, South Australia funded the development of an app, Sheep EAD AR. This app is available in the Apple, Google play and Microsoft App Stores.

The department delivered Exercise Paratus – a multiyear exercise program. It aimed to enhance Australia’s capability to respond to current and emerging biosecurity threats.

Animal Health Australia (AHA) developed and led Exercise Milky Way. It was a joint industry and government exercise to test the raw milk movement controls from the AUSVETPLAN Response strategy: Foot-and-mouth disease Version 5.3.

In 2023, AUSVETPLAN Response strategy: Lumpy skin disease Version 5.1 was published on the AHA website.

The NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development collaborated with researchers from Charles Sturt University to complete a social research project that identified key drivers and barriers to participation in syndromic surveillance.

Phase 1 of this project described how VR could be used to create cost-effective and expandable training applications for animal handling and biosecurity. Phase 2 involved trialing an updated VR experience that operates on the Meta Quest 2 headset (formerly known as the Oculus Quest 2).

This project aimed to improve the understanding of the transmission pathways and biosecurity priorities for reducing AMR risks in livestock enterprises in Australia.

This project repeated an AMR survey in the Australian pig industry. The survey has provided data to compare to previous surveys for monitoring and quality assurance purposes.