In 2025, QFF and Biosecurity Queensland launched the Biosecurity in the Boardroom initiative in Brisbane, bringing together corporate, industry and government leaders from sectors outside of agriculture to begin a conversation on the importance of managing biosecurity risk.
The campaign framed biosecurity risk management around the financial, operational and reputational harms that could impact a business that failed to adequately manage their biosecurity obligations.
Through the program, QFF and Biosecurity Queensland worked alongside peak industry organisations including the Queensland Tourism Industry Council, and Cement, Concrete and Aggregates Australia to highlight the proactive biosecurity risk management taking place across their member businesses.
Assets were designed to encourage businesses within these sectors – and others – to kickstart the conversation, from the boardroom down, to ensure biosecurity risk management is embedded across a company’s culture.
Queensland farmers and regional communities already understand biosecurity risk and the substantial costs that can be incurred if they go unmanaged.
The long-term ambition of this initiative is to cement biosecurity as a risk on all boards in businesses from all sectors across Queensland, just the same as they already consider workplace health and safety, or cyber security risks.
In 2026, the Biosecurity in the Boardroom campaign will continue to support business leaders to articulate these risks to their boards and instill biosecurity best practice throughout their operations, through events, stakeholder engagement activities and a
media campaign to drive this conversation forward.
QFF and our members CANEGROWERS, Cotton Australia and Queensland Fruit & Vegetable Growers, have consistently advocated for greater investment in regional biosecurity infrastructure and capacity, enhanced systems for early disease and pest detection and strengthened biosecurity frameworks.
This project complements this body of work by encouraging corporate leaders to play an active role in biosecurity preparedness across the state.
If you wish to get involved in the campaign, visit the project page on the QFF website.
