An Spanish traveller to Australia has paid the price for failing to declare biosecurity risk items.
Travellers trying to enter Australia with prohibited food products in 2023 are being hit with the country’s toughest biosecurity infringements under new measures introduced to protect Australian agriculture from foot and mouth disease and other threats.
Last October, the Federal Government announced it would increase the infringement amounts for people caught with banned items, to stop diseases and pests entering and establishing in Australia.
On January 1, a 20-year-old Spanish man…
