Biosecurity hub launched at CSU to ramp up nation’s biosecurity defences
Seedstock Central, Other, 21/08/2024
The University’s teaching and research strengths to train more than 840 frontline biosecurity officers. Australia’s defence against crippling biosecurity threats was strengthened with the launch of the Charles Sturt University Biosecurity Hub (the Hub), a co-investment in research and training of almost $30 million to enhance the nation’s biosecurity defences, protecting our food, farms and communities. […] It will specifically respond to threats as outlined by the CSIRO, where it is estimated that invasive species cost Australia approximately $25 billion a year.