Location of quarantine checkpoints

Not at all. Knowing where they are simply allows us to ensure that all fruit is consumed comfortably before arriving at that location.

Hear Hear

I too thought it a little strange. It is not as though you could miss them...If you wanted to consume all your fruit and veg then you do it before you get to or near the border as that is where most of them are located or very close to.

I've got this mental picture of someone in the car with a GPS counting down the K's until they get close then suddenly pull up an start eating.

Then again perhaps there was a more sinister plot, he could be a terrorist attempting to distrupt fresh food production by arranging an airstrike on the checking stations....

Michelle

The link you gave in your last line is fairly comprehensive, the only things that page misses out on is the SA points.

There are two check points in SA not mentioned. There is one at Ceduna checking travellers from the west and the one Des Lexic mentioned.

SA can't seem to work out if they are in or out of the FEZ. No other state checks travellers crossing state borders within the FEZ. I contacted the liaison officer on the FEZ web site some years ago regarding this and also the signs advising travellers travelling from Vic to NSW that they can't bring fruit back with them. She advised that this would be fixed within 12 months. A lot of the Vic signs have come down but the SA problem still exists.

PeterD

PeterD,

I asked recently at Oodlawirra (the SA state checkpoint on the Barrier Hwy SW of Broken Hill) why was I being checked there when I had just left the FFZ at Broken Hill. I was told that he FFZ checkpoints and state border checkpoints are independent. The SA state checkpoint on the Sturt Hwy east of Renmark is within the FFZ yet they still check you. The state and FFZ checkpoints must have different lists of materials to search for.

Stephen.

There are Fruit Fly Checking Stations into SA at Ceduna, Oodlawirra, Renmark and Pinnaroo.
The reason for these check points is to stop travellers from bringing Fruit fly into the state. The cost to the local primary producers as a consequence to a fruit fly outbreak is enormous. Produce cannot then be sold overseas to the better paying markets and frankly the local prices that the growers are paid are not sustainable.
We have currently a Fruit fly Free status in the Riverland and our local economy is under enough strain from the oversupply of grapes and the importation of orange concetrate which is then mixed in with a small percentage of local product and sold as fresh juice.
I am no longer a fruit grower but I have personally felt the imposition of having overseas and local markets withdrawn through the thoughtless transportation of fruit bought into the district.
For the growers sake, don't try to smuggle fruit/vegies through the area. Anyway, you can by the stuff fresher and cheaper from the local roadside stalls.
OK I'm off my soap box now.

Many thanks Stephen. Your help is much appreciated.

Bruce M.

Bruce
we note that you have refrained from submitting a reply to some thoughts above...re your real requirements for wanting to know where they are...

all bins are very well sign posted as are check points...so to are signs warning one well in advance before coming upon the exclusion zones.....

so why the need for EXACT locations?

ooops sorry Bruce...didnt see your reply to Des

based on that reply forgive my evil thoughts of your possible actions....:))))