Quarantine on GCR

WA doing a survey for next few months - close to Laverton & will search cars coming from NT/SA. Cheers Heather

No for both, but there has been talk about setting one up at Laverton in the future at the start of the GCR. I have also heard(rumours) of mobile checkpoints whereby Quarantine Officers drive around to check vehicles but I have never seen one in my travels in the outback.

Many years ago shortly after they built the station at the NT/WA border on the Vic Hwy, we had a blue with the inspector there. He virtually robbed us of all our good fruit and vegies as in those days there was no information about these checkpoints. Buying new food at Kununurra was bitterly expensive and inferior quality (probably still is except for whats grown there) and I poured some petrol into the drum of discarded fruit and veg so no one could help themselves including the inspector. There was a near riot....lol

WA checkpoints:
• WA-NT border on the Victoria Hwy (24 hrs).
• WA-SA border on the Eyre Hwy (24 hrs).
• Other border (desert) roads use a mobile checkpoint vehicle
on a random basis.
• Honesty bins are located about 20 km east of Laverton; and
on the Tanami Road and Duncan Highway near Halls Creek.
• Perth Domestic Airport (detector dogs meet most flights).
• Indian Pacific train (inspectors board the train at Kalgoorlie
and Perth).
• Kununurra airport (inspectors meet most flights).
• Broome airport (inspectors meet most flights).

Not all of us are right... lol

Richard.. :{)

There was one on the WA side about 30klms from Laverton 2 weeks ago.
I had my fridge and esky searched and lost my supply of cold and crispy Fuji apples and 2 onions : (

G'day D,
There used to be an honour system, whereas they left it up to the public to dispose of their fruit and veg prior to going either way on the NT/WA border.