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The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources helps drive a stronger Australian economy by building a more profitable, resilient and sustainable agriculture sector, and by supporting the sustainable and productive management and use of rivers and water resources. The department’s work contributes to: building successful primary industries; expanding agricultural fisheries and forestry exports; managing biosecurity and imported food risk; and sustaining water and other natural resources. The department has a diverse role as a policy adviser to government, researcher, program administrator, service provider, market access negotiator and regulator. It employs people with a range of skills?policy officers, program administrators, economists, meat inspectors, survey staff, biosecurity officers, researchers, veterinary officers, communicators and project managers. Employees work in a variety of places including offices, airports, mail centres, shipping ports, laboratories and abattoirs in regional centres, rural communities and capital cities throughout Australia and overseas.