Fruit fly areas

Not true I'm afraid Dave.
You cannot take fruit & veg from Victoria into SA or NSW.

Look at this Quarantine link.

We lived in Broken Hill for over 20 years and ourselves and hundreds of others from the Hill regularly brought fruit and veg in Mildura to take home.
There is no fruit fly exclusion zone on that road apart from taking fruit 'in to'Mildura from the north. The bin is near Wentworth.

There is a fruit fly exclusion zone in Broken Hill bringing fruit from the east, e.g. Cobar,Dubbo etc.
There is no fruit fly exclusion zone bringing in fruit from SA to Broken Hill.

Dave, did you actually look at the link I provided above?

You may well have been bringing fruit in for 20 years and got away with it, but it is still illegal with fines of up to $100,000.

I think you may be confusing "exclusion zone" with manned Quarantine Checkpoints as you refer to "on that road".

Now I don't care if you choose to not obey the law, but it is inappropriate to give false information to others.

And here is another reference particular to Broken Hill.

Fair comment Allan, I must confess I didn't know we can't travel to Broken Hill with fruit from Mildura or SA.
Certainly plenty of signs about it coming in from the east side, but no signs whatever coming from SA or Mildura, and I have never heard anything about it in Broken Hill either..
What do they say about ignorance being bliss?

It could well be Dave that although they have the "State Boundaries" thing, they realise that it is unreasonable as Broken Hill is a "de facto" South Australian city and just turn a blind eye to the "Rules".
I must confess that I also turn a blind eye to some things! LOL

Allan,

Broken Hill gets all it's fruit & veg from Adelaide.
Years gone by it was freighted by rail and now by road.

Re bringing it from NSW to S. A. is a big joke, the Fruit Fly Inspection point is at Oodlawirra yet I can take a turn off the highway and go to Pt. Augusta and not be checked/caught.

I can also turn off the same highway a few k's away and go to Adelaide without being checked/caught.

Cheers P&J

The link I posted relates to private travellers. Commercial shipments are required to abide by other rules, and they do.

So you have a shortcut to evade the checkpoint. What other ruses do you use to avoid the laws of Australia?

Allan

In reply to the above:
1) "Commercial shipments abide by the rules' That's my laugh for tonight. Sorry you have a lot to learn on this one.

2) "What other ruses do you use to avoid the laws of Australia"? I think it's rules not ruses. I do not avoid the law as your mind thinks I do, I just said it can be done even though I said "I can"

Chow