Tag Archive for: "biosecurity"
Australia must take biosecurity more seriously

One of Australia’s greatest strategic advantages is our ability to produce and export more than $80 billion worth of food and fibre annually. Our agricultural industries feed three times our population. Exports represent 70% of …

National security wrap

The beat Indonesian police arrested over abduction of British man Four Indonesian police officers have been arrested over their involvement in the abduction and ransom of a British man. He was allegedly stopped at a …

Lessons for Australia in US biodefence strategy

In Stephen King’s apocalyptic horror novel The stand, the accidental release of a biological weapon, a super-flu nicknamed Captain Trips, caused a global pandemic that wiped out 99.4% of the world’s population. King masterfully paints …