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Download the 2024 Annual Surveillance Workshop (ASW) Report

The Annual Surveillance Workshop 2017 was held at the EcoSciences Precinct in Brisbane on the 24-25 May 2017. The theme was establishing a National Plant Biosecurity Surveillance Network and scoping a network website.

This project seeks to further develop a decision-support framework that would significantly improve risk management decisions and resource allocation throughout the biosecurity system (from pre-border to pest management) by applying a systematic risk / return approach and evidence based analysis. The project will focus on extending current work on a high-level framework and example case studies e.g. fruit flies and brown marmorated stinkbug, to provide a much more comprehensive tool to populate with data across all major pathways.

This project will produce mechanistic and statistical models to support the management of NPPP incursions. Eradication and containment models will be based on plausible pest establishment and detection scenarios in operational settings. Managing incursions requires that knowledge of pest ecology/epidemiology will work in conjunction with surveillance data to guide the appropriate zoning and implementation of control measures. Models will simulate the spread of incursions from potential establishment locations through natural and human-assisted spread. The capacity for surveillance data to delimit incursions with respect to control technologies will be determined through statistical modelling.

This project sought to develop a general and pragmatic framework for creating defensible maps of pest establishment likelihoods for the purposes of informing post-border surveillance for early detection of pests not currently present in Australia.

In this report, we provide a detailed discussion on an approach which may be used to manage the pathway-level risk of contaminated seed being imported into New Zealand. In any system reliant on sampling to detect contamination, contaminated product may be missed and subsequently imported; this is known as leakage. The proposed approach that we detail provides, at a minimum, an architecture for interrogating the effect of such leakage.

The project applies a simple model structure to the biosecurity risk presented by each pest and estimates the individual and collective impact of activities that are undertaken by MPI and other parties upon the exposure to biosecurity risk presented by the pests.

This report provides (i) a critical review of tools, and (ii) potential case study applications for identifying unexpected biosecurity risks.

This project investigates how these diverse types of information could enhance the implementation of biosecurity inspection protocols at the Australian border, including further rollout of the Compliance Based Inspection Scheme (CBIS) by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources.

CitrusWatch is a national program that aims to ensure that the Australian citrus industry remains free of harmful high priority pests, retains access to key markets through access to robust surveillance data, and has the surveillance mechanisms and expertise in place to quickly detect, High Priority Pests.

This course is targeted at those doing surveillance in southern Australia. Information regarding seasonal considerations and data on exotic citrus psyllid activity is relevant to southern Australia and will differ from the northern citrus growing regions.