NSW DECCW (NPWS) has finally done it!

[VR1Ton]

You can now apply & renew your AKL online!!!! As well as apply for import/export permits. Not sur if it'll be any quicker, but it's managed externally through the IT branch of the NSW Gov.
http://www.license.nsw.gov.au/

They may have done something right for a change.

[Diane]

Now when Debs returns are overdue she will get threatening letters from a computer!

[jusdeb]

I already get emails and hows this one , they rang me and reminded me it was due . AND they actually addressed themselves as National Parks and Wildlife , guess my letter hit the right people .

[Jayburd]

import/export permits...?

[Tintola]

"Import/export permits" refer to interstate dealings done as they require you to do them.

[Jayburd]

darn got my hopes up!

[GregH]

Not that I want to turn you off finches but you can still get pigeons through from New Zealand. I can't see on the form where it says they have to be Columba livia domestica. Check out the Bird Import Permit. Unfortunately they don't have anything we don't have but there's the wedge so how to force it wider?

[Diane]

I can't see on the form where it says they have to be Columba livia domestica.

Isnt that written in this section?
2. ELIGIBILITY
a. Species
This protocol refers to rock, common and fancy pigeons (Columba livia).
No seed allowed either, and pelleted food for the 90 day quarantine.
What are sentinal birds? It says they are allowed.
Im assuming the sentinal is a bird that is like the miners canary, could finches be classed as a sentinal birds, if there was any disease around they would probably get it before the pigeons being a smaller bird.

EDIT... just reading further down sentinals are chickens! 1 chicken = 50 pigeons

[GregH]

Damn - you're right about the Colombia livida specification. I missed that in my hurry to get the response in during my lunch-time. Work really does interfere with my finch keeping ambitions!

[Myzomela]

Yep, been there with the parrot imports in the 90's.
You can import pigeons which free-fly across the country, but you can't import anything else that's to be kept in an aviary or cage.
Bureaucracy, double standards and the power of politics and $$$$!!!