Farmers have called for increased penalties after an Indonesian man was caught attempting to smuggle six kilograms of duck and meat products into Australia.
The traveller failed to declare 3.1 kilograms of duck, 1.4 kilograms of beef rendang, over 500 grams of frozen beef and nearly 900 grams of chicken in his luggage.
The man who was caught at Perth airport in mid-October had declared on his incoming passenger card that he was not bringing any meat, poultry, or other food into Australia.
The Indonesian national was deported and fined $2664.
Last month the federal government introduced harsher penalties banning people from bringing meat into Australia from countries dealing with highly contagious foot and mouth disease – which poses a major risk to Australia’s agricultural industry….