Live export ban debate continues

A CONSULTATION period has opened for all stakeholders to make submissions regarding a phase out plan to end live sheep exports. The VFF joined with other opponents of the ban and expressed concerns it sets a worrying precedence for the cattle industry. Photo: TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY GURU.

By Lizzie Hallam

March 19, 2023 | 12:00 PM

LIVE animal exports are back in the headlines after the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry minister, Murray Watt, announced consultation was underway to end live sheep exports.

Before the 2022 Federal Election, the government committed to ending live sheep export by sea but said it wouldn’t do so in its first term and said a plan to phase the trade out would be developed by 2024.