Category Archives: Emergency Preparedness

Animal Health Australia (AHA) has been facilitating a review of Australia’s foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) response policy, which is set out in the AUSVETPLAN, Australia’s Veterinary Emergency Plan. This is an important process in light of significant advancements in the understanding … Read more

Animal Health Australia now accepts electronic payment for APAV renewals, and other specific invoices. This should simplify the payments process for individual users and for Animal Health Australia, reducing the administrative workload.

Animal Health Australia Payments page

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AHA recently submitted a two-part opinion piece written by our Deputy CEO, Dr Ian Denney, to the Australian Veterinary Journal. We published part one on the News Board in early February, part two is featured below. 

National animal health programs need broad input… Read more

Dear AHA Members

Since the adoption of the AHA Strategic Plan,  we have been working to better align our strategic priorities with the company’s organisational structure.  Also, in the face of continued budget pressures, I have been considering ways of … Read more

Animal Health Australia (AHA) has welcomed the findings of the Matthews Report and congratulated the Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) for its leadership in commissioning the work.

AHA Chief Executive, Dr Mike Bond, said the report was … Read more

The latest endorsed variation of the EADRA (Variation No. 11/01 – 28/06/11) has been loaded to the Animal Health Australia website. You can view this at:

 http://www.animalhealthaustralia.com.au/programs/emergency-animal-disease-preparedness/ead-response-agreement/… Read more

Animal Health Australia manages the continued maintenance and development of the Australian Veterinary Emergency Plan (AUSVETPLAN) on behalf of our government and industry members. AUSVETPLAN is a comprehensive framework of manuals that sets out the various roles, responsibilities and policies … Read more

Senior government officials, livestock industry leaders and other stakeholders, in Canberra on 11 October, agreed that they will explore cooperative arrangements for the future management and funding of national biosecurity activities.

Animal Health Australia convened the National Biosecurity Forum in … Read more

With online shopping becoming a major rival to traditional retailers and services such as AuctionsPlus becoming ever more popular, it seems that livestock trading is increasingly getting in on the game.

But what does buying or selling online mean for … Read more

AHA has just added a Pig Industry Enterprise Manual to the AUSVETPLAN section of the AHA website. Enterprise manuals provide information and guidance about specific risk enterprises. These enterprises, in this case piggeries,  might pose special economic or disease eradiction problems, or are important … Read more