A checkpoint on a tick fence at which people and livestock are inspected before being allowed to pass into or out of a protected area.
on the way down, we were stopped at the tick gate near Grafton, where an inspector tried to confiscate Ross's stick
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They had taken him on holidays to the North Coast, smuggled him back through a tick gate.
In Wallangarra on the New South Wales border, the tick-gate inspector remembered letting a car like that one through.
We were right on top of the range where the old tick gate used to be years ago.
We were at the border crossing the tick-gate and then there was a fork.
The southern side of its main bridge had been used as the site for tick-gate inspections, back when interstate quarantine was still considered possible..
Next time you are stopped at a tick gate on roads into the quarantine areas, you might reflect that a few minutes delay is a fairly small contribution to a campaign that each year costs the Department of Agriculture something like $4,500,000.
As the car slid past the tick gate and into New South Wales, regrowth eucalypts gave way to Camphor Laurel.
Come the morning of my departure, there was Teddy, still at the tick-gate.