Hi All. Have looked at all the previous posts on this topic, BUT no-one has actually listed where the checkpoints are (other than for WA/SA).
We don't want to try to smuggle prohibited goods through, but what we did coming from WA into SA is we gave all the prohibited stuff to people going into WA - rather than waste it throwing good food into rubbish bins or do what a few do and that's sit in a free camp nearby for a few days and force all that stuff down their gullets - yuk !
Can someone please tell us the locations (so we can find it on a map please) of the checkpoints of each of the States.
Thanks:))
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There is a book called Australian Interstate Quarantine a travellers guide. Going into S.A and W.A you can cook your food to take into that state. WWW.quaratinedomestic.gov.au may also help.
And don't forget going from the NT to WA has one as well, SWMBO was not happy when a weeks worth of food bought the day before went into the bin. When my son was asked if he "had any food on board" in his motorhome the reply was no, the inspector lady came out & said no food there & laughed, he cooks nothing, everything processed & pre packed from the shops, EI: junk food.
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The government cannot give anything to anybody that the Government does not first take from somebody else.
As stated before on this topic, the amount of contraband food which is discovered at quarantine check points is but a drop in the bucket. With so many camper trailers on the roads these days, it would be next to impossible to fully check them without holding up other road users for hours at a time. Then there is the fact that many check points are not fully manned 24/7 and there are any number of roads that can get you from some states to others where there are no check points in operation at all.
If Governments are to treat this situation seriously, they would need to spend an enormous amount of money to lift their game instead of the token effort currently being taken. Either the problem is not that big a deal normally, or the various State Governments are turning a blind eye to the matter.
Having said that, we don't carry fruit or other illegal items when we're travelling interstate or into areas which forbid them, not because we believe they may contain fruit fly, but we would hate to have to pay the possible fines.
As to your original question, there is one of the quarantine stations which seems to only ever stop vehicles heading into SA. It's located a couple of klms east of Pinnaroo on the Mallee H'Way. When we were last pulled up there and had our vehicle searched, we were met by a very officious woman with a sense of humour akin to a bowling ball!! And no she didn't find anything to confiscate, which must have made her even more cranky.
There is a book called Australian Interstate Quarantine a travellers guide. Going into S.A and W.A you can cook your food to take into that state. WWW.quaratinedomestic.gov.au may also help.
Safe travelling.
Diane Don & Dusty
Book, quarantine website, our experience crossing into SA from NSW or Vic and WA from SA and NSW into SA, it is very much what mood the 'inspector' is in as we were subjected to some many inconsistencies. There is also a quarantine zone with a zone. This is the Fruit Fly zone many in the Riverina.
Easiest crossing was going back into SA from WA. The actual border is 1000 km west from the inspection station at Ceduna. That bit I don't get. You have travelled 100 km before you are inspected. Albeit it's all desert. We crossed at about 6pm and the 'inspector' was so keen to go home he pretty much just waved us through. Coming back from Broken Hill into SA, the 'inspector' took one look at us and decided we were OK and waved us through. However, we have met people who decided to argue the point at the crossing only to have their caravan pulled apart. We were also 'politely' informed by the 'inspector' that the website was 'not up to date' when questioned about a ruling. Read into that what you will. You are correct, cook everything and/or you can freeze some things as well.
No one inspects you going into NSW from SA or QLD. No inspections into Qld from NSW and obviously Qld to NSW, although there use to be many years ago.
Guys........I have that site saved as a favourite so I can check anytime to find out what I can and cannot take into a particular State.
I have just looked at it again and it does not seem to show WHERE the inspection sites are located - which was my original question !
Larry - agree with your comments about the WA to SA border.....seems a bit of a joke and located to save wages by having it on the WA border where the SA Govt would have to pay staff remote allowances and provides houses etc. What happens if you buy something in SA before the control point - there is a roadhouse there that sells prohibited items, but there was an angry post here about how the SA staff refused t accept the receipt related to the goods concerned.
I hope someone is telling all the insects and bugs they are not to crawl, hop (like cane toads) or fly into man made restriction zones. It all seems to be just a joke to me - either do it 100% or not at all
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Had no trouble coming from Victoria into SA near Nelson just along from the Great Ocean Rd, although we like most others do the right thing and do not carry stuff when we shouldn't. Am now keeping dockets of fruit and vegetables bought here in SA so we can enter the MIA area on Thursday. The quarantine book that is referred to is available at most info centres in towns close to borders. Best of luck.
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Sorry can't help with check points but once coming out of Broken Hill we took the wrong road. We took the Sydney road in error and turned around after we had gone a few kms and realised our error. We gad passed the checkpoint on our way out and wondered if they would pull us up.....and yes they did. We had bags of fruit and veg sitting on the back seat which we had just bought in Broken Hill....doing the right thing as you do.
We explained we had taken the wrong road and I had the receipt to prove our purchace. He questioned how far we went but said if we had gone much further, he would take it off us, fined us for the produce and arguing with him.....not that we were, just putting our case forward. I think he was hoping for some nice fresh produce to take home. So it is certainly not worth the risk.
Many checks in the Riverina have been taken away in the last 12 months, say there is so much fruit fly here there's no point. There was one from Coolamon to Narrandera, gone, one from Wagga to Narrandera gone.
thanks for the last lot of replies subsequent to my last post - this is what we wanted to know cheers folks. Any other useful info ????
Funny when we came into SA from WA at Ceduna, I had banged on at the BOSS before leaving the CP that morning about making sure we weren't carrying any naughty goods. All the way and especially when we came to all the warning signs prior to the Ceduna checkpoint, she gave me that "Im female and youre just a whinging husband look" and corresponding answer.
We got stopped, the Inspector was very pleasant - looked in the fridge, saw we had mushrooms (which are allowed) and chocolates (the BOSSES - and she offered some to him which he declined which made me feel like we were trying to bribe him). That afternoon at the next CP we (me) found 4 avocadoes in the fridge (naughty goods) which she and the Inspector had not seen LOL. That put me in superior heaven for at least 3-4 mins - but still had to cook the tea !!
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Easiest crossing was going back into SA from WA. The actual border is 1000 km west from the inspection station at Ceduna. That bit I don't get. You have travelled 100 km before you are inspected. Albeit it's all desert.
Larry
The WA/SA Border is 500km west of Ceduna Larry.
The reason the checkpoint for entering SA being at Ceduna harks back to the early 70's when much of the highway was unsealed and was a tough journey on cars and people, there were basically no water supplies and many breakdowns were suffered.
Both SA and WA govts wisely would not take foodstuff from travellers on this risky road and thus the eastbound checkpoint was placed at Ceduna and the westbound was at Norseman.
After the completion of sealing the road from the border to Norseman the WA govt moved their quarantine station to the border. Much later SA completed sealing their side but left the station at Ceduna.
Cheers Neil
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Thanks for that Neil - its always good to find out why these things happen. Obviously SA doesn't have the money or will to move it to the WA border as it tends to make the quarantine process a bit of a joke and otherwise honest people inclined to hide prohibited food stuffs rather than do the right thing and dispose of it, eat it or give it to someone going in the opposite direction as we did
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