Originally Posted by
tomh009
Yep -- Australian (though not NZ) customs will X-ray your luggage when looking for food and wood products. Singapore, incidentally, does the same thing.
NZ x-rays as well. I just went through that a few weeks ago at AKL. Every bag was scanned and while my hiking boots had already been cleaned and approved by one of his fellow Kiwi agents, because that agent had left for lunch and no one could vouch for me, I had to do it all over again.