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About the Portal

The Biosecurity Portal (BSP) is a jointly funded initiative between the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR) and Plant Health Australia (PHA) to provide a centralised repository and gateway to online biosecurity information for collaboration and sharing.

In essence, the BSP aims to strengthen Australia’s biosecurity research, surveillance, diagnostic and response capability, by enabling researchers, industry and governments, to collaborate, use expertise, share data, information, and generate intelligence using leading edge tools and technologies made available through the BSP’s online workspaces.

Goals

At the completion of the department’s development funding for the Biosecurity Portal there will be a self-supporting operational system (including hardware, software and maintenance) that can be marketed to researchers, industry and governments that delivers against its core purposes:

  • Collaborative workspaces and knowledge bases
  • Advanced workflow automation
  • Low cost web hosting services
  • Centralised information repositories and sharing

In addition the BSP will deliver on aspects of the National Plant Biosecurity Strategy (NPBS) (specifically Recommendations 8, 9, 10 and 15). The NPBS provides the endorsed strategic direction for national plant biosecurity activities to 2020.

The BSP will also begin to deliver against priority reform areas identified in the Intergovernmental Agreement on Biosecurity​ (IGAB), which aims to strengthen the collaborative approach between Australian governments to address Australia's biosecurity issues.

Plant Health Australia will continue to own and manage the development of the BSP with guidance from the Portal Management Committee which is comprised of representatives from both PHA and DAWR.