More cameras for border cattle tick surveillance

Video surveillance cameras will replace people in the fight to stop cattle ticks from entering New South Wales from Queensland.

Twenty-five Department of Primary Industries (DPI) staff who work at tick gates along the NSW-Queensland border have been offered voluntary redundancy or redeployment.

NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald says a camera on the Pacific Highway at Tweed Heads has been successful in stopping the illegal transportation of livestock across the border.