Australia’s live export trade is controversial. Have you ever wondered how it perpetuates? New research shows it comes down to corporate power dynamics. Similar forces operate in Brazil and the US.
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Is the ban really a death knell for the Western Australian sheep industry, as is sometimes argued? Or just an inevitable step in a necessary transition?
Sheep exported live for slaughter in the Middle East are routinely exposed to high temperatures.
More than 1500 sheep died across these voyages collectively from heat
stress, injury or disease – which was nevertheless under the official
“reportable mortality” rate.
The government has extended by a year the time it is giving exporters with old ships to continue with sub-standard conditions for sheep carried to the Middle East.
Michael McCormack on Barnaby’s future, latte sippers and other matters
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In this interview Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack pointedly avoids saying Joyce should run again in his New England seat at the election.
Broadbent didn’t use the term “doctors’ wives”, but these are the people he meant – Liberal supporters whose vote can be moved by particular causes.
He told The Conversation that even when he finished his degree in the 1990s “the economic rationale for continuing the trade wasn’t strong”.
In choosing not to ban the live export trade even in the hottest northern months, the federal government is allowing animals to be put in conditions where they cannot possibly escape suffering.
The submission recommends an increase in the space allocation for each animal of at least 30% for sheep weighing 40-60 kilograms – the weight range of the typical sheep sent to the Middle East.
Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
The undertaking represents another stage in the toughening of Labor policy on the issue. The opposition had a bipartisan approach a few weeks ago.
Michelle Grattan speaks to University of Canberra’s Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
Up to now, both government and opposition were anxious to stay in step.
Wood’s call follows NSW Liberal and former health minister Sussan Ley declaring the trade should cease.
On Friday the Agriculture department announced it had suspended the supply of sheep to a Qatar abattoir after seeing footage provided by Animals Australia.
It doesn’t need a review to tell you that for the sheep these voyages - even when they go better than this one did - are hell, whatever “standards” are imposed.
Footage of sheep transport conditions have shocked many, but live export has a long history in Australia.
Australian cattle may have been killed with sledgehammers in Vietnam.
With animal welfare issues routinely handled by Senate committees with strong links to agriculture, how can we ensure that those outside the industry are being properly listened to?
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Adjunct Professor in Animal Welfare, Curtin University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate professor, UNSW
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra
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Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University
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Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emerita in Hebrew, Biblical & Jewish Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of history in the School of Humanities specialising in Islamic History, University of New England
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Professor of Philosophy, Animal Sciences and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Cattle & Sheep Production Medicine, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Law, The University of Melbourne