About DAFF
The Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s role is to develop and implement policies and programs that ensure Australia's agricultural, fisheries, food and forestry industries remain competitive, profitable and sustainable.
Our policies and programs:
- encourage and support sustainable natural resource use and management
- protect the health and safety of plant and animal industries
- enable industries to adapt to compete in a fast-changing international and economic environment.
- help improve market access and market performance for the agricultural and food sector
- encourage and assist industries to adopt new technology and practices, and
- assist primary producers and the food industry to develop business and marketing skills, and to be financially self-reliant.
The department employs about 4500 Full Time Equivalent staff in Australia and overseas, including policy officers, program administrators, economists, meat inspectors, researchers, veterinary officers, program administrators, communicators and project managers. Our staff work in places as varied as offices, airports, mail centres, shipping ports, laboratories and abattoirs; located in regional centres, rural communities and capital cities.
In this section
Organisational structure and contact details
- DAFF Executive
- From the Secretary
- Government Division
- Agricultural Productivity Division
- Trade & Market Access Division
- Information Services Division
- Finance and Business Support Division
- People and Service Delivery Division
- Climate Change Division
- Sustainable Resource Management Division
- ABARES
- Biosecurity Plant
- Biosecurity Animal
- Biosecurity Food
- Biosecurity Quarantine Operations
- Biosecurity Policy Division
- Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer
- Australian Quarantine & Inspection Service
- Biosecurity Australia
What we do
Our portfolio
Annual reports
Budget
Media centre
Current grants and assistance
Corporate publications
- DAFFnews
- Client Service Charter
- National Livestock Identification System (NLIS) Report
- Equine Influenza Inquiry Report and Response
- Corish Report Response
- Cost Recovery Impact Statements
Tenders
Jobs
Events
Minister
Reporting obligations
Legislation
Freedom of Information
Last reviewed:
05 Oct 2012
05 Oct 2012