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Pawsome job opportunities for biosecurity detector dog handlers

The department’s biosecurity detector dog program is recruiting new biosecurity detector dog handlers, with applications open from Thursday 4 August 2022. First Assistant Secretary of...

The cicada’s deafening shriek is the sound of summer, and humans have been drawn to it for thousands of years

 Picture: Shuttlestock Around Australia, the buzz-saw siren of cicadas heralds the beginning of summer. With 237 recorded species of cicada in Australia, almost no area of...

Photos from the field: zooming in on Australia’s hidden world of exquisite mites, snails and beetles

     Dragon springtails (pictured) are widely distributed in forests of eastern Australia — yet they’re still largely unknown to science. Nick Porch, Author provided Which animals are...