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Media Release Stronger penalties for travellers who don’t declare high risk biosecurity items The Hon. David Littleproud MP Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management Deputy Leader of the Nationals Wednesday 17th June 2020 Stronger penalties for travellers who don’t declare high risk biosecurity items Biosecurity Amendment (Traveller Declarations and Other Measures) Bill 2020 introduced into the House of Representatives. Bill enables higher value infringement notices to be issued for goods that have not been declared on an incoming passenger card and pose a high biosecurity risk. Director of Biosecurity will determine which goods are subject to a higher infringement notice amount. An amendment to the Biosecurity Act 2015 to strengthen biosecurity penalties was introduced into the House of Representatives today. ...