We received the much awaiting phone call yesterday morning and it was confirmed that we would receive funding for six more years and 93% of the total cash we sought would be provided.

A recent trip to China by CRCNPB CEO Dr Simon McKirdy, Dr Shashi Sharma from the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA), Associate Professor YongLin Ren from Murdoch Universit

It started with a 30 minute powerpoint (presented by John Lovett and myself) and was followed by 90 minutes of questions from a panel.

The Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRCNPB) has developed
memoranda of understanding with two leading Chinese science agencies and a university to

In an international breakthrough for pest control, Australia scientists have developed a new way to wipe out invading pests of tree crops or vines – without having to destroy the crops.

The next stage of the bid process was completed at lunchtime today. We submitted the four exemplar projects.

Media Release: 12 September 2011

An army of keen-eyed Australian families has helped notch up a vital victory in the never-ending war on a ferocious and painful invader.

After a tense two months we have finally been informed today that our bid has progressed to the next and final stage.

After a busy week we hit the submit button at 1:55pm today. The core team are very happy with the flavour of the final bid. We believe it has a more compelling case than in 2010.