As the Northern Australia Quarantine Strategy (NAQS) approaches its thirty-fifth year of operations, we outline the Australian Government’s approach to address extraordinary natural and human mediated biosecurity challenges across our sparsely populated northern shores. NAQS is a concept that is unique worldwide but could be equally well applied in many other island nations dealing with similar circumstances. Key to the success of the NAQS has been long collaborations with biosecurity scientists in the neighbouring nations to the north. Some examples of how these relationships have borne fruit as we tackle regionally important plant diseases are illustrated. We also focus on how the plant pathology component of the program developed and evolved from the early 1990s to 2023.

随着北澳大利亚检疫战略 (NAQS) 的实施即将进入第 35 个年头，我们概述了澳大利亚政府在人口稀少的北海岸应对自然和人类介导的非凡生物安全挑战的方法。 NAQS 是一个全球独一无二的概念，但同样可以适用于处理类似情况的许多其他岛国。 NAQS 成功的关键是与北部邻国的生物安全科学家的长期合作。书中举例说明了这些关系如何在我们应对区域性重要植物病害时取得成果。我们还重点关注该项目的植物病理学部分从 1990 年代初到 2023 年是如何发展和演变的。