Sushimania

Food items? Artificial flowers? Toiletries? Thank you. BTW, this is not serious, but would I be able to buy Marmite in Sydney? I don't particularly like Vegemite. Thank you.

moneypenny20

Weirdly AQIS can't differentiate between fake and real flowers so don't bother packing them. Untreated wood is a no no as are any opened packets of food, spices etc. Marmite is available everywhere.

Full list here but remember that whilst some packaged foods are ok you MUST declare them.

joho

anything that has been in contact with soil needs to be washed very well. Tents, garden furniture etc. Anthing with dried seeds, pot purri.

Jo

LouiseR

I packed fake flowers Inspected and no problems, must've caught 'em on a good day

moneypenny20

Pollyana had silk ones on a hat. Had to pay to have it distroyed Many others have had similar experiences. You must have had a woman inspector

Pollyana

Someone else recently had artificial berries destroyed too.

Declare anything wooden, and any foods.
DOn't bring dairy products, meat, fish, plants, bark, pine cones, bamboo, teddy bears stuffed with straw (thats the old ones, be wary), or rocking horses with real horsehair manes...........

Any inidividual things you have a question about have probably been mentioned on here before so the answer will be here somewhere.

LouiseR

Well if you want anything done right...

mark wool

Got told to spray jays fluid on kids outside toys and just round a bit of other stuff, so when they open the container it smells like you have made the effort. might want to try packin your house it might be cheaper.

moneypenny20

We didn't use Jeyes, the smell makes me heave. We did spray everything moveable with WD40 though, I think that had the same effect. Jeez that stuff smells good.

mark wool

i would not use it on me face. I think its kidology!

Pollyana

Even with a smell of Jeyes they still have to unpack the container and then decide what to look at. After so many years reading threads like this I now accept its pot luck.

mark wool

your right! roll the dice.

Bernieboy

Why oh why were you not on border Australia,i would love to have seen yer face when they said 'sorry mate but we are going to burn yer hat.thats 200 dollors thanks and welcome to oz'

Pollyana

Tough luck babe, it was in the container, years ago before you even knew me!! Mind you the air was blue when the importers told me it would cost $60 to destroy a hat with plastic berries on it :curse: Don't think the neighbours ever recovered!

Bernieboy

Made me think about when the lady at check-in asked me if i had packed my own bag,i should have said 'tut tut dont be silly,im going business class,i have someone to pack my bags for me,now hurry on dear i have important business to attend to'