What is Australia's duty-free allowance?
Carry-on: Yes Checked: Yes Declare on arrival: Required Does not apply domestically
Coming home, adults 18 and over can bring in AUD $900 of general goods duty free, and under-18s AUD $450. Families travelling together on the same flight can pool their allowances.
Go over the limit and duty and GST apply to everything, not just the excess. Keep receipts for anything expensive you took out of Australia, or it can be counted against your allowance on the way back.
Flying within Australia? This one does not apply.
This is decided at the Australian border, so it does not apply to a domestic flight.
This one is decided at the Australian border rather than at screening. Declaring a thing costs nothing and a biosecurity or Border Force officer decides - it is failing to declare that carries the fine. If you are not sure whether something counts, declare it.
Money & payments
Most of that $900 gets spent overseas on a card, and an Australian bank charging 3% on every purchase takes about $27 of it.
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New destination guides and side-by-side comparisons for Australian travellers - which eSIM, which travel card, which insurance is worth paying for, and what to sort before you go. Prices in Australian dollars, a few emails a year.
Packing something else? The full A to Z of what you can take on a plane covers 61 items, the domestic flight rules set out what changes when you are not leaving the country, and the pre-departure checklist puts the rest of the trip in order.
Last reviewed 2 September 2026. Screening, dangerous-goods and biosecurity rules change, and airlines can be stricter than the government baseline. For anything unusual, the linked source and your airline's dangerous-goods page are the final word.