Founder
Save the Bees (alt. Bee the Cure)
Email: Hellobeethecure@gmail.com
 
Dear Mr Mulvany
INQUIRY INTO THE ADEQUACY OF AUSTRALIA’S BIOSECURITY MEASURES AND RESPONSE PREPAREDNESS
On 28 July 2022 the Senate referred the following matters to the Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee (the committee) for inquiry and report by 10 October 2022:
(a) the adequacy of Australia’s biosecurity measures and response preparedness, in particular with respect to foot-and-mouth disease and varroa mite;
(b) response to and implementation of previous reports into biosecurity; and
(c) any related matters.
The committee invites you to make a submission addressing all or some of the terms of reference for this inquiry by 5:30pm (AEST), Friday 26 August 2022. Should you require an extension, please get in touch with the committee secretariat as soon as possible. Late submissions are not generally accepted unless an extension has been granted.
The committee encourages the lodgement of submissions via the Online Submission System at: https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/OnlineSubmission If this is not possible, submissions should be sent via email to rrat.sen@aph.gov.au or by post to the address below.
All submissions to the inquiry become committee documents upon receipt and are made public only after a decision by the committee. You should not release your submission to anyone until the committee advises you that it has been accepted and published. This is because although submissions are protected by parliamentary privilege once they are accepted by the committee, their unauthorised release before this is not.
Generally, once a submission is accepted by the committee, it is published under the submitter's name on the committee inquiry webpage. Publication of your submission includes it being loaded onto the internet (with your signature and/or contact details removed).
While the committee normally makes submissions public, it can consider a request to receive evidence – such as a submission or an attachment to a submission – as a confidential document. Confidential evidence is only provided to members of the committee and the name of the submitter is not made public.
If you would like the committee to consider receiving your evidence as confidential, please provide a covering letter to your submission that outlines the reasons for your request. The committee will sympathetically consider requests for confidentiality, but cannot make promises in advance. Contact the committee secretariat if you require further advice on confidential evidence.
Details about the inquiry, including the terms of reference, can be found on the committee webpage. Further information about making a submission is available on the parliamentary website.
If you have any questions, please contact the committee secretariat on 02 6277 3511.
The committee looks forward to receiving your views on this important issue.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Mr Gerry McInally
Committee Secretary

Is it negligent of the New South Wales DPI to allow the movement of NSW hives to the monoculture almonds and canola crops before the parameters of the infestation has been found.

Is it possible hives on the border of nsw/vic Sunraysia district  have Varroa mite and are spreading it?

Have beekeepers been offered compensation money for missed pollination income or is there financial pressure for them to continue migratory pollination work?