I live in Launceston Tasmania, there's a fruit bin on the way in to the airport from the tarmac. Nearly every time I've been to the airport here there is a Beagle getting about on the luggage carousel.
Now that I think about it, that dog might not be there entirely for fruit. There was a bit of a spate of people bringing ice (meth-amphetamine) in through checked baggage a couple years ago. Who does that?
Unfortunately the beagles are mostly gone from Hobart airport.
There's just the one now, I'm told, and s/he wasn't on duty last I flew down. Family that fly through there regularly all say they havnt seen it on duty much either.
This made my paranoid checking of whether my chosen brand of fruit-oil containing shower gel would be permitted kind of redundant.
For somewhere there's not supposed to be fruit fly, we sure saw a lot of fruit flies.
Every eastern state airport I've ever seen has fruit bins at the gate or on the airbridge, and there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit.
there is frequently an on-board announcement near TOD that some states prohibit bringing in fruit
Yup, was about to mention this. I did Sydney to Perth a couple of weeks ago & Qantas made that announcement close to landing. In particular, they mention not to bring honey into Western Australia, and to talk to a flight attendant if you were carrying honey.
I do remember seeing signage (somewhere) in Perth on arrival, but I don't remember seeing any disposal bins.
They 100% don't have disposal bins at Sydney T3, nor do I remember them at Melbourne or Brisbane. I've spent a lot of time in that airport, sometimes without even flying and I've never seen anything other than just regular bins and the "oops I forgot this bottle of water" before security.
There's similar if you go north of Brisbane. Turns out, having a ridiculously sparse population is also a good defence against the spread of plant diseases.
There's actually signs somewhere north of BNE telling truckies that they can't take bananas past that point, for example.
http://www.interstatequarantine.org.au/travellers/interstate...
Driving or flying to or from WA, you will see inspectors and dogs.