Appendix 3

Appendix 3

Topic list

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio

Monday 8 February 2010

Division/Agency and Topic

Proof Hansard page reference

Corporate Services/Corporate Finance/Corporate Policy

4–15

Efficiency dividend/productivity savings

4–6, 12–13

Graduate recruitment program

4–5

Staffing levels

5–6, 9

Business continuity and disaster recovery plans for IT systems

6–9

Increase in car parking costs

9–10

Recruitment of new Deputy Secretary for Biosecurity Services

11

Use of frequent flyer points

13–14

Advertising

14–15

Number of pot plants in the Minister's office

15

Biosecurity Services Group

16–34

Importation requirements for beef from countries which have had bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)

16–21, 100

New Deputy Secretary for Biosecurity Services

21

Import Risk Analysis (IRA) for apples from China

21–24, 25

World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute with New Zealand

24

Export certification reform process

25–29

Importation of illegal timber

29–30, 34

Equine influenza

30–33

Hendra virus

33–34

Meat and Livestock Australia

35–42

BSE

35–40

Australian Meat Processing Corporation

40

Export of live sheep and boxed meat from Australia

40–42

Climate Change

42–67

DAFF officers in Australia's delegation to Copenhagen

42–47

Farm Ready grants

45, 56, 100

Impact of emissions trading scheme (ETS) on food processing sector

47–48

Feral camels and greenhouse gas emissions

48–50

Exceptional Circumstances and drought policy reviews

51, 55–56, 58–59

Soil carbon

51–54

Communication strategy

56

Community networks and capacity building projects

56

Climate Change Action program – re-establishment grants

56–57

Climate Change Research program

57

Rural Financial Counselling Service

57

Measures for reducing agricultural emissions

59–60

Measurement of livestock emissions

60–61

Forest Industries Development Fund

61–63, 67

Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement

63

Australian Forestry Standard/Forest Stewardship Council

63, 64–66

Forest industry database

64

Climate Change Commercial Forestry Action Plan 2009-12

64

Forest Industries Climate Change Research Fund

64, 66

Illegal logging

66–67

Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Bureau of Rural Sciences

67–71

Definition of marginal land

67–68

Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program

68

Soil carbon levels and modelling

68–71

Upgrading of ABARE's modelling on impacts of climate change

70

Sustainable Resource Management (SRM)

72–83

Feral camels

72–73, 74–75

Wild dogs

73–74

Caring for our Country

75–78, 79–83

Border Rivers-Gwydir – Landcare projects

78–79

Landcare coordinators

82–83

SRM (international fisheries issues) and Australian Fisheries Management Authority

83–99

10-kilo rule in the southern bluefin tuna industry

83–84, 99

Listing of mako sharks, long fin, short fin and porbeagles under the EPBC Act and impact on recreational and commercial fishing sectors

84–87

Convention on Migratory Species

84–85, 87

Native fish management in the Murray-Darling Basin area

87

Marine bioregional planning process

87–88, 89–91

Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee

88–89

Recfish

89

Coral Sea fishing permits

91

Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

91–93

Use of gill nets

93–94

Patrols of the Oceanic Viking

94–96

Southern bluefin tuna catch

96–97

Recognition of statutory fishing rights

97

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

97–98

Reopening of the Bass Strait central zone scallop fishery

98–99

Agricultural Productivity

99–115

Sheepmeat industry

100–101

Beef industry

101

Fertiliser

101

Agricultural production trends since 2002

101–102

Grape and wine industry

102–103

Food labelling and 'Grown in Australia' label

103–106

Expenditure on R&D by state governments

106–108

Productivity trends

108–109

Horticultural code of conduct

109–110

Fruit Logistica trade fair

110

AUSVEG

110

Regional Food Producers Innovation and Productivity program

110–112

National Horticulture Award

112

VegVision

112

Food security issues

113–114

Wheat Exports Australia

115–123

Productivity Commission review

115, 119

Wheat price

116–118

Benefits of new wheat marketing arrangements

118

Access arrangements for ports and shipping

119, 120, 121

Future role of WEA

119

Registered exporting companies

119–120

Levies

119, 122

Grain being stored on farms

120, 121

Expansion of markets

120–121

Relationship with GRDC

121–122

Size of wheat harvest

122–123

Trade and Market Access

123–126

Withdrawal of agricultural attaché positions in Brussels, Paris and Washington

123

Negotiations with the Russian Federation to resolve suspensions of red meat exports

123–124

Australia-New Zealand-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement

125

International markets for Australian meat

125–126

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