Modern Australian

Paying an extra $150 million a year to protect growers? That's bananas!

  • Written by Gigi Foster, Associate Professor, School of Economics, UNSW

No international traveller can miss the impact of Australia’s quarantine restrictions. Loud posters at every international airport instruct you to dump your fresh produce or face large fines. Into the bin then with the Californian cherries and Kiwi kiwis!

These restrictions impose a cost not just on international travellers but on...