Plant cuttings disguised as botox, tea, and seafood have cost four travellers entering Australia $22,000 for biosecurity breaches.
abc.net.au/news/travellers-fined-biosecurity-breaches-plant-cuttings-australia/102456152Plant cuttings disguised as botox, tea, and seafood have cost four travellers entering Australia $22,000 in fines.Cuttings were disguised as tea, seafood and botoxThe passengers were each issued with maximum fines of $5,500 after separately attempting to breach Australia's biosecurity border control in a five-day period last month.
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