Dr. Mark Trotter, Associate Profession in Precision Livestock at Central Queensland University in Australia, provide an overview of Australian agriculture and agri-tech with a focus on grazing animal production, particularly beef and sheep. His expertise/interests include: on-animal sensor technologies including GPS tracking, accelerometer, audio sensing and proximity logging and their application by Australian graziers (ranchers) to solve key production, social, welfare and environmental issues; the GPScows School Engagement Program (www.gpscows.com) which see’s school students across Australia (and the USA) using GPS tracking technology to monitor livestock and learn about spatial science; the Ani-sense open source research animal monitoring project (this program is developing a low-cost open source multi-sensor animal monitoring system which will be made freely available to animal scientists across the globe); and the DataMuster platform (www.datamuster.net) being developed by CQUniversity to collate, analyze and present sensor information from walk-over-weigh, water monitoring and on-animal sensors enabled by the R statistical package.