Our vision is a more sustainable and prosperous Australia through biosecurity, agricultural production and trade.
We maintain and create agricultural export opportunities, to provide gains for Australian agriculture, fishing and forestry. We manage biosecurity risks to Australia to protect our multi-billion-dollar industries and our way of life. We engage with international counterparts to reinforce Australia’s role in shaping how the global agriculture and fibre sector addresses food security, productivity, trade, sustainability and the impacts of climate change.
Our purpose and objectives
We will achieve our vision through our purpose: working together to safeguard and grow sustainable agriculture, fisheries and forestry for all Australians.
We focus on 3 objectives:
- Sector growth – Support Australia’s agricultural sector, including the food and fibre industries, to be increasingly prosperous and internationally competitive in an ever-changing world.
- Sector resilience and sustainability – Increase the contribution agriculture, fisheries and forestry make to a healthy, sustainable and low-emissions environment.
- National biosecurity – Strengthen our national biosecurity system to provide a risk-based approach and an appropriate level of protection for Australia’s people, our environment and economy.
Learn more about us and read our Statement of Strategic Intent and our Corporate Plan 2024-25.
Our functions are set out in the Administrative Arrangements Orders. We:
- provide advice to the Australian Government
- deliver programs
- administer legislation including as a significant regulator in the Australian economy.
Laws we enforce
As a regulator we enforce laws relating to:
- agricultural goods imported into and exported from Australia
- agricultural levies
- imported food safety
- imported wood and paper products
- pest and disease risks of goods, people and vessels arriving in Australia.
- Read more about our responsibilities and the laws we administer.
Working with you
We work with our stakeholders, governments and the public to achieve our objectives.
We seek feedback through:
- public consultation
- industry forums
- consultative committees
- international delegations
- working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
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