Safety Check in Australian Airports

All people who qualified for an Australian migration are subjected for rigorous inspections. This is to make sure that everyone entering or already in the country are safe. The Australian government wants to make sure that the whole country is protected against any threats. Threats can come in any form, can ruin anything. It is not always about security threat, there can also be threats on the agriculture, economy, business and trades. And so, visitors or immigrants are required for strict compliance on the laws being imposed by Australian airports.

Australia's quarantine regulation is very strict. It is conducted by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service or AQIS. Thousands of people are entering and leaving Australia everyday. To make their inspection task easier, sniffing/detector dogs and x-ray machines are present. They also do physical inspection, questioning and profiling to those who come and out of the country.

Just because you worked hard for your Australia visa, doesn't mean you are free to bring anything you want. Upon arrival, you must declare all your baggage to the authorities including food, plant material and animal products. It will be assessed to make sure that they are free of pests or diseases. If you wish not to declare them, you can surrender them on quarantine bins in the airport terminal. To make them safe, they will be treated through fumigation. If they are not treated, it will be destroyed by the quarantine team. After the inspection, the baggage will be returned to you if it is negative of threats.

Items that you must declare when you land to Australia are commercially prepared foods, cooked and raw food and ingredients, dairy and egg products, animal products, seeds and nuts, fresh fruits or vegetables, live animals and animal products. This does not mean that you can't bring in this item, they are just subjected for further infections. Other items that you must declare are plant materials, used freshwater watercraft, sporting or fishing equipment and other goods like biological specimens including tissue culture.

If you make a false declaration chances are: you will be caught, be fined on the spot by $220 or be prosecuted, fine $60,000 or spend 10 years in jail.

Even if you carried threat, which you honestly didn't know, you wouldn't penalized because you declared them. Just present a clear proof that the items are for personal use. Proofs can be a receipt that says items are safe and of Australia's origin.

And on the time you are leaving Australia, there is also a requirement of what items you can bring with you. Not all items are allowed to be imported. This is to make sure that their original products are not abused or pirated overseas.