PHOTO: Funding the government’s boost to biosecurity is a sensitive issue
Australia’s biosecurity measures have strengthened in the federal budget – but not without a cost: farmers, travelers and importers will pay more to underpin Australia’s first ongoing biosecurity funding model
Biosecurity as well as worker and market access for Australia’s agricultural sector, has been boosted by $1.5 million of new spending in the Federal Budget tabled in parliament last night and will be funded in part with a proposed increase in agricultural levies.
The Government will provide funding over four years to strengthen the system, including more significant regulation, increased surveillance and international engagement…