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Nothing to Declare Australia

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 680 ✭✭✭A.Partridge


    Boombastic wrote: »
    yep Queensland doesn't like rabbits. I have a photo of a sign in a field that says 'no rabbits beyond this point' with a picture of a big rabbit on it, Len Brennan would love it there :)

    "It's Bishop Brennan to you.... you little bollox!"

    :pac::pac::pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


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    Introduced feral goats/pigs/cats/camels/foxes/rabbits/cane toads/horses/water buffalo/mynahs/pigeons/starlings, I'm sure there's more.

    Exterminated Thylacine and a number of smaller rodents and marsupials, prob foxes and cats took care of the smaller guys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭bodice ripper


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    They enforce, not decide.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    ScumLord wrote: »
    Mother nature demands the week be destroyed. Australia has managed to evade natures wrath for too long, the rabbit has shown us the way by declaring an unmerciful war on Australia and was been winning almost single handedly. The rabbit!

    Haven't they a problem with cane toads that were introduced as well?

    Or maybe thats somewhere else.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Haven't they a problem with cane toads that were introduced as well?

    Or maybe thats somewhere else.
    No cane toads too. Just about anything introduced to that environment sets a path of destruction across the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Anyone watch the Canadian version?

    They take no shít from the Yanks when they try to cross the border, especially the ones who have guns in the car, the gun policies seem a lot more rigid in Canada.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,073 ✭✭✭gobnaitolunacy


    Haven't they a problem with cane toads that were introduced as well?

    Or maybe thats somewhere else.

    Up in QLD major problem, they got into the Top End, should be crawling their way into north east WA by now.

    They were introduced to get rid of the cane beetle, but the bastard of a beetle lives up the cane stalk out of reach of the toad. Major d'oh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Yeah I watch that programme, while i get that they are enforcing the rules they seem about as friendly as a nest of vipers.

    There was one eposide where the immigration crowd were interviewing an "oirish guy", and they put subtitles on the screen ever time he talked.

    It wasn't that bloody hard to understand him.

    He was from Galway wasn't he..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


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    Anything to declare, eh?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    I get the distinct impression Australias "we're mad we are" image is as close to reality as the American one of "we're all wild and free". Health and safety runs the place, much like in the UK. I read somwhere it is the Health and safety Sign capitial of the world.

    Totally. I've never been anywhere so obsessed with rules in my life. On a 24 hour Greyhound bus journey through Queensland, they wouldn't let you lie across a seat because it meant your seatbelt wouldn't work (well have proper reclining seats then you cheap bastards; they seem to manage that in South America). I couldn't face a bus all the way to Sydney so I rented a car; got done for doing 4KMs over the speed limit on the Pacific Coast Highway - "double points, double jeopardy" because it was close to Christmas, A$300 fine (not that I paid it). It was the same the whole time I was there; they love rules and love the sound of their own voice enforcing them (the guy in front of me at Cairns airport had a guitar and went through the same **** referred to earlier, because it was "wood" ffs).

    In Victoria they seriously discussed the wearing of helmets in cars in Parliament.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


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    Forget the exact name, but it does be on the same channel at the australian one I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,739 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    MadsL wrote: »
    He was from Galway wasn't he..

    No, he was a Dub actually.

    Anything else to contribute to the thread?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    @SIJ, the thing about the flight crew giving out fruit to pax is that several things don't sit right; the fruit is already packed in a controlled environment and arrives at the aircraft from the controlled environment of the flight catering kitchen; the flight crew are eating the same fruit so it must have already been accepted by the Australian airline; the fruit often originates in Australia anyway and simply goes out on the outbound leg and is distributed both outbound and inbound; the timing of the cabin crew giving it to pax so late in the flight is down to pure laziness, ie, the cabin crew don't want to have to carry all that fruit back to the galleys because surplus has to be binned and they couldn't be arsed. So, if a cabin crewperson gives a passenger fruit that is already previously checked for suitability for crew to eat and, as far as the passenger is concerned, originated on the aircraft and not on some fly-blown stall in Hong Kong, then the cabin crew are at fault if they cause the passenger to be hit by customs for a fine. The Cabin crew are perfectly aware that the fruit should not be imported because they are always briefed to this effect and Customs know this to be so and are taking the piss out of the pax by hitting them with fines or threats of a court appearance. Quite simply, they should put up a sign in the aircraft that says that cabin crew are not under any circumstances to give fruit to pax if it may cause them to be fined or jailed or denied entry.

    regards
    Stovepipe


  • Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭Peter T


    Strangely enough a Canadian friends mom was stopped bringing maple syrup into Ireland last week because it was a food product that could have damaging effects :confused: . But I love watching nothing to declare, especially when someone is coming on holiday and their bag is full of crazy food they try to pass off as "medicine" :rolleyes:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    dpe wrote: »
    Totally. I've never been anywhere so obsessed with rules in my life. On a 24 hour Greyhound bus journey through Queensland, they wouldn't let you lie across a seat because it meant your seatbelt wouldn't work (well have proper reclining seats then you cheap bastards; they seem to manage that in South America). I couldn't face a bus all the way to Sydney so I rented a car; got done for doing 4KMs over the speed limit on the Pacific Coast Highway - "double points, double jeopardy" because it was close to Christmas, A$300 fine (not that I paid it). It was the same the whole time I was there; they love rules and love the sound of their own voice enforcing them (the guy in front of me at Cairns airport had a guitar and went through the same **** referred to earlier, because it was "wood" ffs).

    In Victoria they seriously discussed the wearing of helmets in cars in Parliament.


    i dont think you can blame the general population for a bunch of health and safety obsessed retards in government

    well alright, you can but they probably voted for them for other reasons.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭Jamsiek


    Anyone watch the Canadian version?

    They take no shít from the Yanks when they try to cross the border, especially the ones who have guns in the car, the gun policies seem a lot more rigid in Canada.

    Yes, it's interesting.
    I live in Canada and have witnessed Americans with guns trying to get across the border.
    The Canadian customs agents take no crap from them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,557 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    I've seen a couple of episodes of the Aussie one where Irish people have been detained by immigration. In both episodes, they had to use subtitles for the Irish guys (who were speaking English, BTW).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 879 ✭✭✭somuj


    Mr E wrote: »
    I've seen a couple of episodes of the Aussie one where Irish people have been detained by immigration. In both episodes, they had to use subtitles for the Irish guys (who were speaking English, BTW).

    Australians speak unbelievably slow. Anymore that a word every couple of seconds and their dumbfounded.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Why the hell would anyone want to face this crap? Never been to Australia and frankly if that is the way they behave in customs they will not be getting my cash anytime soon.

    I can't believe that they are showing customs people being so abusive to tourists. It really sets the whole customs people in a bad light. OK enforce the rules but Christ some of them REALLY have chips on their shoulders and seem to be acting as little Hitlers.

    200 dollars for an apple given to people on a plane before landing, seems like stupidity to me. Fine the airline not the damned passengers. Smacks of a money making racket to me..

    OH and the bloody accents of those women.. EEEEEEEkkkkkkk....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    NSAman wrote: »
    Why the hell would anyone want to face this crap? Never been to Australia and frankly if that is the way they behave in customs they will not be getting my cash anytime soon.

    I can't believe that they are showing customs people being so abusive to tourists. It really sets the whole customs people in a bad light. OK enforce the rules but Christ some of them REALLY have chips on their shoulders and seem to be acting as little Hitlers.

    200 dollars for an apple given to people on a plane before landing, seems like stupidity to me. Fine the airline not the damned passengers. Smacks of a money making racket to me..

    OH and the bloody accents of those women.. EEEEEEEkkkkkkk....



    Almost immediately before landing, passengers are handed out cards, printed in several languages, including specific languages if required.

    On these cards, it asks specifically if you are in possession of a wide array of foodstuffs which you must tick yes or no to.

    It also tells them multiple times, that they must include foods handed out by the airline in their declarations.

    They have an extremely fragile and beautiful eco system, with some stunning species of animals and fauna.

    You can understand why they protect it so vigorously tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Look what happened in the Simpsons when they let that frog in.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    When I was in Australia a few years back, on the way over I bought a carton of 200 smokes on the plane from Singapore. I only had a $100 bill and they didn't have enough change on to cover it (I do NOT miss laser cards!) so I bought a second carton to make up the difference. Problem is they limit you to 250,which I only noticed when they gave out the declaration letters later.

    Landed in Brisbane, accidentally got in the Australian/NZ queue. When I copped it (should have by the fact there were maybe 30 in my queue and hundreds in the other) I turned to leave when the security guy comes over and asks if I have a connecting flight (I did, to Sydney). Soundly enough he tells me to stay in the queue.

    When I get to the desk I give them the declaration sheet, they ask me to go over to a different area because of the extra smokes. Have a friendly chat with a woman in her 30s and guy in his 40s working for border patrol (not dragged into a room or anything, just to the side), I wouldn't have been too bothered throwing 8 packs of smokes away, but they just tell me to keep them, walk by the sniffer dog on the way out, and have a good day.

    I've been to Australian airports maybe a half dozen times in total and they've always been very friendly. Couldn't have been any different from the show really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭MS.ing


    good show but they dont need the drama thriller music running through if ffs :rolleyes:

    the whole thing is drama, no sound effects needed, ruins it. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    NSAman wrote: »
    200 dollars for an apple given to people on a plane before landing, seems like stupidity to me. Fine the airline not the damned passengers. Smacks of a money making racket to me..

    As Banjo String mentions there is a landing card printed in several languages where you actually have to tick whether you have food or not.

    Its simply a test for stupidity and the fine is punishment for being thick.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,318 ✭✭✭✭Menas


    I find that show strangely addictive.

    They are very good at making about 7 minutes footage last nearly 30.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,518 ✭✭✭stefan idiot jones


    Hey, guess what? I had no trouble getting through customs here. I think it's because I'm not smuggling drugs and my IQ is into double figures.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    Hey, guess what? I had no trouble getting through customs here. I think it's because I'm not smuggling drugs and my IQ is into double figures.
    But your username is borderline fraudulent.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    I just brought some homemade cheese through Dublin which my inlaws gave us without issue.

    Only stopped once on Dublin and that was off a flight from Amsterdam having flown from Mozambique to jo'burg en route home. Was reading in jo'burg that it's an established drugs route.
    Anyway, a quick xray of my bag and off home :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    @banjo string, it is a con because the fruit/food has already been screened by the catering company, who are themselves screened by the airline to comply with Australian law. The fruit is essentially safe, because if it wasn't, it would be allowed on the aircraft in the first place (because, in law, the aircraft is considered Australian soil) and there is also no mechanism to stop the crew taking the stuff home themselves. Also, if an airline aircraft document states that fruit given out by the very same airline staff is unacceptable to be landed in Australia, then why on earth would the crew give it to passengers just before landing? This makes them complicit in aiding and abetting the illegal importation of fruit.The cabin crew are briefed very thoroughly on every document relating to cabin service, so if there is a rule about illegal importation, then they are well versed about it.It is the cabin Crew Senior's job to brief the cabin crew before every flight and that includes a review of documents.....If the food is surplus, then it will be cleared off by the home airport catering company and destroyed (incineration) anyway....best thing to do is not take anything off the cabin crew except the meals and abandon anything you have not consumed. The whole thing smells of a bit of a scam.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭mandrake04


    Stovepipe wrote: »
    @banjo string, it is a con because the fruit/food has already been screened by the catering company, who are themselves screened by the airline to comply with Australian law. The fruit is essentially safe, because if it wasn't, it would be allowed on the aircraft in the first place (because, in law, the aircraft is considered Australian soil) and there is also no mechanism to stop the crew taking the stuff home themselves. Also, if an airline aircraft document states that fruit given out by the very same airline staff is unacceptable to be landed in Australia, then why on earth would the crew give it to passengers just before landing? This makes them complicit in aiding and abetting the illegal importation of fruit.The cabin crew are briefed very thoroughly on every document relating to cabin service, so if there is a rule about illegal importation, then they are well versed about it.It is the cabin Crew Senior's job to brief the cabin crew before every flight and that includes a review of documents.....If the food is surplus, then it will be cleared off by the home airport catering company and destroyed (incineration) anyway....best thing to do is not take anything off the cabin crew except the meals and abandon anything you have not consumed. The whole thing smells of a bit of a scam.

    If you have fruit/food you can always tick YES on the landing card, then you are allowed to dump it in the bin at customs anyway. You don't get fined for that.

    You only get fined if you answer NO and carry fruit/food through. As above its a test for stupidity DO YOU HAVE FOOD YES or NO.

    If you are too dumb to answer the question correctly then its $220 fine.

    Its only a scam to those who don't understand a simple question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Guy - do you have any food in your bag?

    Old asian lady - no food, no.

    Guy - you sure? I'm going to have to check.

    Asian - no food, no.

    Guy - opens bag - you see here? ALL you have is food. Like literally NO clothes. Just tubs and hubs of home made weird, asiany soupy looking food.

    Asian - no eng rah leesh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Guy - do you have any food in your bag?

    Old asian lady - no food, no.

    Guy - you sure? I'm going to have to check.

    Asian - no food, no.

    Guy - opens bag - you see here? ALL you have is food. Like literally NO clothes. Just tubs and hubs of home made weird, asiany soupy looking food.

    Asian - no eng rah leesh

    I wouldn't mind if it was nice food but it's nearly always duck legs and fried chicken sh1t with a side of fermented rat tail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 270 ✭✭zbluebirdz


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    Border Security: Canada's Frontline.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    Bambi wrote: »
    Apparently "oriental" is quite the racist term :confused:

    Y'all act like you never seen a white person before


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Its a pity our customs weren't as strict here. Maybe then we wouldn't have as many free loading wasters in this country as we currently have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,346 ✭✭✭✭smurfjed


    Went to Brisbane via Dubai, got some Fosters beer inbound to Dubai for the transit, ended up not drinking them, then got some Whiskey outbound, when I landed in OZ, the rules said 1 litre ALCOHOL, well i know had 1 lt bottle and 3 cans of beer, I went and asked a customs officer for advise, he asked if that was all that i had to declare, i said yes, he pointed straight to the exit, I was in the arrivals hall about 30 minutes before my colleagues :):)

    Next time in Darwin, we asked about having diving equipment that was used in the sea, was this affected by their fresh water restriction, once again, sent right out the door, none of our bags looked at.

    Moral of the story, treat them with respect and you won't have any problems :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭2 stroke


    I was stopped, frisked and had my camera bag and pockets swabbed. I asked what they were looking for and they said explosives. My travelling companion had been out shooting the day before, he wasn't checked.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭Jonty


    Hey, guess what? I had no trouble getting through customs here. I think it's because I'm not smuggling drugs and my IQ is into double figures.

    Your IQ should really be into treble figures.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    donvito99 wrote: »
    Do you have any contraband in your suitcase, sir?

    Yes, a knife.

    That's not a knife, this is a knife.

    That's a spoon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    CJC999 wrote: »
    Its a pity out customs weren't as strict here. Maybe then we wouldn't have as many free loading wasters in this country as we currently have.
    You might be confusing customs agents with midwives.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    2 stroke wrote: »
    I was stopped, frisked and had my camera bag and pockets swabbed. I asked what they were looking for and they said explosives. My travelling companion had been out shooting the day before, he wasn't checked.
    I had that too once, flying from Sydney to Perth. It's just a formality that the have to pick out the odd random person, like how in Amsterdam they tend to give one in four or five people a random check to make sure they're not planning on exporting anything they shouldn't. Only takes a minute or so, they were very polite and almost apologetic when checking my backpack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    NSAman wrote: »
    Why the hell would anyone want to face this crap? Never been to Australia and frankly if that is the way they behave in customs they will not be getting my cash anytime soon.

    I can't believe that they are showing customs people being so abusive to tourists. It really sets the whole customs people in a bad light. OK enforce the rules but Christ some of them REALLY have chips on their shoulders and seem to be acting as little Hitlers.

    200 dollars for an apple given to people on a plane before landing, seems like stupidity to me. Fine the airline not the damned passengers. Smacks of a money making racket to me..

    OH and the bloody accents of those women.. EEEEEEEkkkkkkk....

    If you keep your nose clean and obey the law, it should take you a few mins (apart from queuing) to get through the customs area with no hassles. Not too much of your precious life wasted, is it?
    I worked in an aussie airport and yes some of them are sound and some are blue-shirted w*nkers, but say nothing and give them nothing to pull you up on and you'll get to enjoy your hols, don't follow the rules or be a w*nker back to them and you might get fined or you'll be having a little chat with the Federal Police. Same as getting into the States, no-one in their right mind will give a smart-ass answer back to Homeland Security.

    $200 isn't that much if the alternative is their fruit industry going under because some visitor didn't eat their apple (which could harbour any sort of disease) on the plane or bin it when they were supposed to do so. Maybe, just maybe they might remember not to do it next time?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,642 ✭✭✭MRnotlob606


    They don't even allow culture into Australia !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,984 ✭✭✭Stovepipe


    It's dead simple: instruct the cabin crew NOT to give fruit to passengers, as the unwitting pax will be treated like criminals by jobsworths. All fruit should be gathered up by the cabin crew and dumped in the waste bin, if it is percieved to be a threat to Australian horticulture (why is it on the aircraft in the first place??). If the law, already known to the cabin crew, specifically bans importation of fruit, deliberately or inadvertantly, then the cabin crew are to blame by contributing to the distribution of the fruit in the first place. So, fine the airline AS$200 every time a pax ****s up and bring the CEO to court every Monday morning to explain why his employees are contributing to criminality and I guarantee it will stop overnight......if the signs existed to simply filter out morons, then Australia is ****ed because it already has an ample supply of morons.

    regards
    Stovepipe


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    They don't even allow culture into Australia !

    Shut your stupid filthy mouth!!:mad:


    We do so have culture! Did you not see post #144?






    :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭NSAman


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Shut your stupid filthy mouth!!:mad:


    We do so have culture! Did you not see post #144?






    :pac:

    Isn't that culture now in LA?..;)


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