Queensland Biosecurity Partners Network

This research was conducted to review biosecurity threats and pathways to help us better understand the highest risk behaviours and audiences most commonly associated with pest or disease introduction and establishment.
Download the Biosecurity Threats Research Project - Final Report

Biosecurity Queensland sought to expand robust research carried out in 2020 to re-assess the highest risk behaviours and audiences, as a number of shifts have occurring in recent years that needed to be considered. These include a shift in Queensland’s biosecurity landscape, changing impacts such as system disruptors, population, climate change, social-economic influences, and changes in audiences and their behaviours.

The research identified 10 key pathways for priority high risk species across the biosecurity system and associated high-risk behaviours and audiences. Six strategic biosecurity behaviour change priorities were confirmed as:

• On-farm biosecurity plans – in place and in action
• Identifying the unusual – biosecurity pest and disease reporting
• Hitchhiker pests
• Come clean, go clean
• Movement restrictions
• Keeping/ releasing plants and animals that present a biosecurity risk.

This research is a valuable resource for partners to help inform future interventions, policy, education, and awareness efforts across the biosecurity spectrum.