Appendix 4 - Topic Index Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Portfolio

Appendix 4 - Topic Index Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Portfolio

Monday 26 May 2008

Division/Agency and Topic

Hansard page references

Management Services and Corporate Policy

3-23

Answers to questions on notice

4-5

Efficiency dividend

5-6, 8-10, 17-21

Staffing

6-7, 12

AQIS ICON IT project

7-8, 10-12, 81-82

Frequent flyer points

9, 21-22

Media monitoring

12-14

Printer cartridges

13

Ministerial travel

10, 14-15

Freedom of Information requests

15

Reduction of certain budget measures

15-17, 22-23

Labelling of honey and royal jelly

23

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority

23-28, 35-42

Cost recovery framework

23-24

Application process

24-25

Staffing and resources

25-26

Review of fees and charges

26-28

Genetically engineered crops

35-36

Reviews of atrazine and triazines

36-39

Responsibility for the enforcement and monitoring of chemical use

36-42

Chemical residue on strawberries

41

Australian Wool Innovation

42-69

Income and turnover

42-43

Staffing

43

Company secretaries

43-46, 62-63

Number of board directors

46

Research and development

46-47, 60-61, 64-65, 68-69

Clips to prevent flystrike in sheep

49-58

Activities of PETA

55-57, 67-68

AWI's work with retailers

52-53, 55-57

Pain relief

54

Australian Wool and Sheep Industry Taskforce

53, 65-67

Classing wool as non-mulesed

58-59

Off-farm collaboration

60-62

Product Integrity, Animal and Plant Health

69-82

Live export standards

70-75

Memoranda of Understanding for live exports

73-74

Video footage relating to the live export of animals

75-78

Mortality levels for live export consignments

78-80

Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service

82-114, 120-126

Eastern Creek quarantine facility

82-83, 101

External container inspection regime

83-84

Risk of varroa mite

84-85

Sentinel hive program

85-86

Abalone virus, ganglioneuritis

85-89

Citrus Canker Eradication program

89-90

Surveillance of feral pigs in northern Australia

91-92

WTO case on the IRA for apples from New Zealand

92-98

Big Bugs advertising campaign

98

Penalties for violating quarantine

98-100

Television program Border Security

98-101

PCR litmus testing for prawns, particularly for infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV)

101-104

Pandemic influenza preparedness

104, 105-106

Ug99 wheat rust

104-105

Red fire ants

105

Didymosphenia geminata (didymo)

106-109

Mexican feather grass plant/ Texas tussock

109-110

Fruit fly

111-114

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

120-123

Surveillance of feral cattle in northern Australia

123-125

Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy

125

Quarantine items on the underside of foreign fishing vessels

126

Export Wheat Commission

114-120

Functions of the Export Wheat Commission

115

Funding for Wheat Exports Australia

115

Employee expenses

116

Increase of container exports

115, 117-120

Biosecurity Australia

28-35, 126-131

Import Risk Analysis for bananas from the Philippines

28-35

Risks associated with importing bees

126-130

Stone fruit imports from the United States (US)

130-131

International

131-133

Stone fruit trade with Taiwan

131-133

 

Tuesday 27 May 2008

Division/Agency and Topic

Hansard page references

International

4-30

International Agricultural Cooperation program

4-6, 18-19

United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation

6-7

Free Trade Agreement with Japan

7-9

Free Trade Agreement with China

9-14

US Farm Bill

14-19

Trade opportunities for Australia

19-20

Wheat Export Marketing Bill 2008

20-21

Work on food security – access to and availability of food and food productivity

22-29

Funding for horticulture

29-30

Horticultural Code of Conduct

30

Grains Research and Development Corporation

31-41

Growers levy

31-32

Work on grain varieties

32-33, 40

Water efficiency

33-34

Adoption of technology

34-35

GM technology

35-39

GM production in northern Australia

40

GE crops and weed tolerance

41

Meat and Livestock Australia

42-56

Red meat stocktake program

42

ACCC inquiry into supermarket prices

43-45, 49

Goat industry

45-46

Domestic marketing program

46-47

ACCC inquiry into meat prices

44-45, 47-49

International marketing campaign

49-50

BSE

51

Carbon embedded in meat products

51-53

Carbon trading scheme

53-56

Food and Agriculture

56-58

Sugar industry restructure package

56-57

Ethanol

57-58

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

58-94

Oil prices

59-69

Loss of the single desk

70-71

Cost of inputs into farming, such as fertiliser, chemicals, etc

73-76

Provision of information on the wheat industry

76

GE crops

76-87

Income of Victorian dairy farmers

87, 91

Ethanol

87-90

Work on linking economic and climate modelling

91-92

Bureau of Rural Sciences

94-95

Rural Policy and Innovation

95-113

Drought forecasts and EC declarations

95-96

Social impact of drought

96-97

EC funding

97-100

Funding for research and development corporations

100-104, 111-112

Tenders for rural financial counselling services

104-106

RIRDC rural women's awards

106-107, 111

Funding for the Country Women's Association (CWA)

107-109

GE research

109-110

Funding for Heywire

110

Natural Resource Management

114-129

Northern Pacific Seastar

115-116

Funding for regional NRM bodies

116-126, 128

Landcare

128-129

Fisheries and Forestry

129-135

Funding for Gippsland Lakes projects

129, 131

Onshore business assistance

130

Funding for abalone virus ganglioneuritis

130

Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement

130, 131-132

Forestry Managed Investment Schemes (MIS)

130

Wrongly apprehended Indonesian fishing vessels

132-133, 134-135

Queensland fin fishery

133

Forest and Wood Products Australia

133-134

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