28 Nov 2025
The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) and Biosecurity Queensland are encouraging all businesses to know the potential impacts of biosecurity events to their organisations, review their biosecurity readiness and strengthen their biosecurity practices through the Biosecurity in the Boardroom campaign.
The campaign has seen strong support from sectors outside of agriculture, with peak industry bodies including the Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC), Queensland Tourism Industry Council (QTIC) and Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (CCAA) highlighting the need to manage biosecurity proactively to avoid operational, financial and reputational risk.
How QREC are supporting their members to manage biosecurity risks
As Queensland’s peak renewables industry body, QREC represents organisations associated with the renewable energy sector including solar, wind, pumped hydro, electricity transmission, battery storage, and renewable fuels. QREC proudly collaborates with industry, communities, agricultural, and environment groups, First Nations peoples, and all levels of government to advance Queensland’s renewable energy sector.
Like any other industry, the renewable energy sector faces potential operational, reputational, and financial risks stemming from biosecurity events. QREC is working to support their members and the broader renewables industry to identify, plan for and manage biosecurity risks through their Renewable Energy Industry Biosecurity Guide, developed in collaboration with Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland agricultural peak bodies, and industry. Read more about the guide and download a copy here.
How QTIC members are proactively managing their biosecurity risks
QTIC is the peak industry body and leading advocate for Queensland’s visitor economy, committed to the growth and sustainability of the state’s tourism industry.
QTIC members across the state are taking action to manage their biosecurity risks, including vegetation and feral animal management, strict protocols to manage wildlife health, and implementing measures to protect native flora from invasive species.
Learn more about biosecurity risks in the tourism industry by downloading the sector profile here.
How CCAA is supporting their members to be on the front foot against fire ants
Cement Concrete & Aggregates Australia (CCAA) is the voice of the heavy construction materials industry in Australia. CCAA members produce the majority of Australia’s cement, concrete, and aggregates, which are crucial to Australia’s building and construction sectors.
These materials support the development of our nation’s transport, energy, water, housing, defence, and social infrastructure. The industry generates approximately $15bn in annual revenues and employs approximately 30,000 Australians directly and a further 80,000 indirectly.
In April 2025 CCAA released Fire Ant Management Guideline for the Queensland Heavy Construction Materials Industry. The impact of fire ants is far reaching and is a key emerging issue within the construction materials sector given the constant movement of fire ant carriers in the form of essential construction materials throughout the community.
How you can better manage biosecurity risks within your business
By ensuring you meet your obligations with respect to the management of biosecurity risks and implementing leading-practice biosecurity risks mitigation measures, you can play an important role in protecting the Queensland environment, our economy, and our communities from threats that have the potential to impact on our way of life.
We know that biosecurity risks are expected to increase by four-fold in the coming years. If we are to keep ahead of these risks, Queensland needs every business in every sector to start managing biosecurity just as they would manage other risks such as WHS and cyber security.
QFF and Biosecurity Queensland are continuing to engage businesses across all sectors to highlight the proactive steps that can be taken to promote better biosecurity outcomes. If you wish to be involved in the campaign, please contact QFF’s Acting Corporate Partnerships and Communications Manager Jak Kirwin via email at comms@qff.org.au.
Biosecurity in the Boardroom is a collaborative initiative from the Queensland Farmers’ Federation and Biosecurity Queensland.