Tag: live export

‘Ewe-Turn’ Needed on Live Export Ban

March 12, 2023
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Commentary The Australian federal government needs to reverse its disastrous policy to ban live sheep exports. The Labor party of today seems more beholden to inner-city green elites than the workers who serve in the sheep industry and were the spiritual founders of their party. The many shearers and farm workers who founded the union…

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Labor Party Confusion Over Live Export Policy Throws Industry Into Disarray

May 6, 2022
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The centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP) has sent the live export industry into disarray after it appeared to back away from an earlier promise to ban live sheep exports. Labor leader Anthony Albanese said on May 6—just a day after a Labor spokesperson confirmed the ban—that the opposition would not put a timeline on when…

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Australia and Saudi Arabia Resume Livestock Trade After 10 Year Hiatus

April 14, 2021
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A ten-year hiatus on livestock trade between Australia and Saudi Arabia has been broken with the Middle East kingdom now welcoming Australian exports again. Agriculture Minister David Littleproud said on April 7 that Australia has been working with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on the arrangements. “My department has been working closely with their counterparts…

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