AUSTRALIAN wool growers might vote for a reduced levy for research, development and marketing this year if the proposed biosecurity protection levy was introduced, a Senate committee inquiry was told yesterday…Read More
Terry Sim, April 24, 2024
DEPARTMENT of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry officials have voiced concerns around a possible container levy or further increases to full import declaration (FID) charges, proposed by agricultural and freight groups as funding stream alternatives to the controversial biosecurity protection levy…Read More
Emma Alsop, April 24, 2024
Australia’s livestock industries were still “in the dark’ on how the Federal Government’s proposed biosecurity protection levy would be collected just months from its proposed commencement on 1 July this year…Read More
Sheep Central, April 23, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S proposed wool traceability hub is aiming to achieve mandatory Property Identification Code declaration by all wool growers to facilitate an efficient emergency animal disease response…Read More
Terry Sim, April 22, 2024
THE push to introduce a container levy as a substitute for the controversial biosecurity protection levy is gaining momentum with producer groups, and freight groups support increased import charges rather than the Federal Government’s BPL proposal…Read More
Emma Alsop, April 22, 2024
THE Federal Government has released greater detail on the proposed contribution of agricultural industry sectors under its biosecurity protection levy proposal…Read More
AGRICULTURE Victoria’s new podcast season ‘Biosecurity basics’ takes a deep dive into the fundamentals of biosecurity, including practical things that can be done to protect animals and the environment…Read More
Sheep Central, April 10, 2024
FARMERS intending to bring secondhand machinery into Victoria have been alerted to the crop, pasture and livestock biosecurity aspects of bringing equipment into the state…Read More
Sheep Central, April 5, 2024
LABOR’S current biosecurity protection levy proposal would give food importers a “free kick” against Australian agriculture, National Farmers Federation president David Jochinke said today…Read More
Terry Sim, March 25, 2024
THE Federal Government’s proposed biosecurity protection levy bill has passed through the House of Representatives despite meeting opposition from The Greens and some independent members this week, with a final vote expected in the Senate next week…Read More
Terry Sim, March 22, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S livestock industries have reacted angrily to the Albanese Government’s persistence with biosecurity levy legislation today, despite broad industry disapproval…Read More
Sheep Central, February 28, 2024
AUSTRALIA’S peak farmer body has seized on new criticism of the Federal Government’s revised biosecurity protection levy model as validating farmers’ concerns…Read More
Sheep Central, February 21, 2024
