Import permit - NSW

[finchbreeder]

Desertbirds I think Mick intends to move his whole concern over the border lock stock and barrell. So I don;t think there will be any planes involved. Just a truck load.
LML

[desertbirds]

If he heads North, life gets easier and he can register a few "first ones bred in the Territory "
Sorry FB i thought there was a plane involved.

[Danny]

Only registered natives for wilkdlife protection purposes. Otherwise any laws to impose interstate trade barriers (as an import permit at a cost would) contravene s52 of the Australian constitution.

Can you explain the $30 fee and two week waiting period that we have to endure in NSW? No other state has a fee anywhere near this cost and usually grant it within a day.

Two weeks. I have two current NSW applications in their 5th weeks. 4 weeks is about standard.

[Tiaris]

If you apply for the permit online the fee is $27 (wow, big saving) and turnaround time is 2 weeks. By postal application or fax it takes longer & I know of a couple of instances where it had taken a while & phone enquiries to try to hurry it up were responded to with "if you send another $30 I'll do it next day" (ICAC stuff).

[Tintola]

If a couple of country bumpkins can freight stuff all over the place , im sure city slickers can work it out, seriously its not that HARD.
Stop whinging.
1. Get a permit for the birds you want to send or import
2. Get a box to send them in .
3. Put them in the box and take them to the airport or go to the airport and pick them up.
4. Pick up the phone, and be nice to people on the other end,they have a job to do, its suprising how much difference that can make.

I freighted a few hundred birds before joining the forum , all states but Tassie , people make it sound way harder than it is.

DB It is not the degree of difficulty that we are dissatisfied with, It is the over regulation, the $30 cost and the inconvenience of waiting two weeks or more to be able (legally) to do it. If I send/receive only five shipments per year interstate, there is $150 on top of the license fee that we pay already. I live almost on a state border and if I want to drive the birds twenty minutes into Qld I have to pay $30 and wait at least two weeks to do it and then send in another form to state that nothing else was added to the first one. WHY? when other states don't have these ridiculous, revenue raising laws. Qld for example has a cost of two or four dollars and approval the same day by fax or phone. Any wonder a lot of people that I know avoid all this whenever they can and just "do it"!

Tiaris, The $27 fee on-line does not hurry things along at all, as you would be well aware.

[SamDavis]

If you apply for the permit online the fee is $27 (wow, big saving) and turnaround time is 2 weeks. By postal application or fax it takes longer & I know of a couple of instances where it had taken a while & phone enquiries to try to hurry it up were responded to with "if you send another $30 I'll do it next day" (ICAC stuff).

Same experience here. After 3 weeks I rang and was told it was unlikely it would be processed for another week or so unless I was willing to pay a $30 "hurry up" fee. And this for $150 worth of birds. You try to do the right thing, but I got sick of it and just sent the birds - fortunately the permit arrived the following day. Clearly issuing the permits is one small part of one person's job and its a low priority - how many applications can there be each week? Can't be many, and are any ever refused? They should just automate the whole thing through the online record keeping system.

[Tiaris]

How corrupt is a hurry-up fee when the state government has a designated fee & written turnaround time? Someone should lose their job over this.

[Tintola]

- how many applications can there be each week? Can't be many, and are any ever refused? They should just automate the whole thing through the online record keeping system.

Sam, see Buzz's post it has graph at the bottom of the link of how many import/export licenses have been issued since 2007.

[MadOzzie]

G'day!

I live on the Gold Coast and have had conversations like this before with people from Tintola's area in relationship to birds. Murwillumbah is not only near the state border but is just south of the major population area of Gold Coast and Brisbane which provides the major services for the just south of the border community.

It was pointed out in one of the conversations by a friend who lived just south of the border, at Kingscliff (NSW), that if he wanted to send birds to Sydney (NSW), he had to cross in to Queensland to Coolangatta airport to do so. The plane, if it takes off to the north would go from the terminal in Queensland, cross the state border into New South Wales, then cross the border back into Queensland on its take off. The state border actually crosses the main runway.

MadOzzie

[jusdeb]

Some ones having a lend of us and our wallets .