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<div>Your contributions to the newsletter and travel reports by 10am
tomorrow please.</div>
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<div><font size="-1"><b>Seminar -</b> <i><b>Pulp Non-Fiction:
Gene Printing for High Value Wood Traits in
Eucalypts</b></i></font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Date: Thursday August 17</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Time: 12.30-1.30</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">Venue: Australian Tree Seed Centre
Lab</font></div>
<div><font size="-1">CSIRO</font> Building 1</div>
<div>Yarralumla</div>
<div><font size="-1">BYO lunch</font></div>
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<div><b>BRS SEMINAR SERIES PRESENTS:</b></div>
<div><b>Friday 18 August</b></div>
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<div><b>Title:<i> Signposts for Australian Agriculture: Profiling the
Grains Industry</i></b></div>
<div><b>Presenters: Blair Wood - NLWRA</b>,<b> Tom McCue - GRDC,
Jean Chesson - BRS</b></div>
<div><i>Signposts for Australian Agriculture</i> is a partnership
between Research and Development Corporations, Governments and the
National Land & Water Resources Audit. It is designed to provide
quick and reliable directions to government and industry policy makers
to:</div>
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<li>demonstrate and communicate industry performance
<li>identify challenges and opportunities
<li>better target policy interventions, research and development and
data collection.
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<div>The<i> Grains Industry Profile</i>, launched in April this
year at Grains Week in Canberra, is the first major demonstration
product of the Signposts project and can be accessed at <a
href="http://www.brs.gov.au/signposts-grains"
>www.brs.gov.au/signposts-grains</a></div>
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<div>In this seminar we will discuss its significance from the
perspectives of industry, policy and research.</div>
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<div><b>11.00am - 12:00noon (morning tea at 10:45am)</b></div>
<div><b>Edmund Barton Conference Centre (in the courtyard)</b></div>
<div><b>Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry</b></div>
<div><b>Edmund Barton Building</b></div>
<div><b>Kings Avenue, Canberra</b></div>
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<div>Bookings not required.</div>
<div>Parking can be a problem, we suggest taking public transport or a
taxi.</div>
<div>For further details, please call the BRS Seminar Coordinator on
6272 4011.</div>
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<div>For further information on BRS Seminars or to obtain
papers/presentations supplied by previous seminar presenters, please
visit our website at: <a
href="http://www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars">www.brs.gov.au/brsseminars</a
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