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On April 9, 2018, ABC News ran a report on the response of the federal Minister for Agriculture, David Littleproud, to recent reports of extensive sheep deaths among livestock being exported to the Middle East.
On April 8, 2018, 60 Minutes televised a program exposing the inhumane conditions within which sheep are transported to the Middle East on some carrier vessels.
On April 8, 2018, Animals Australia released footage of the inhumane treatment of sheep transported on carrier vessels to the Middle East. (Warning: some of these images are distressing.)
On April 6, 2018, Australian Livestock Exports released footage of sheep being transported to the Middle East under humane conditions.
On May 9, 2018, Independent MP for Denison, Andrew Wilkie gave a speech in the federal Parliament calling for the banning of the lice export trade.
On May 5, 2013, Livestock Export Truth released a video showing the humane conditions under which cattle exported from Australia to Egypt were treated.
On May 22, 2018, the animal rights group PETA produced a video contrasting the treatment of sheep on carrier vessels in 2007 and 2017. The condition appear to be equally inhumane.
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Should Australia continue live animal exports? - Web links, documents and video clips
On July 20, 2018, SBS News carried a report titled 'Joyce says live export opponents "zealots"' which detailed the allegations of the former leader of the National Party that those opposed to live exports were extremists.
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On July 5, 2018, Farm Weekly published a comment and analysis titled, ' Live export ban will have ramifications' written by the WA Farmers president Tony York. York argues for the vital importance of the live sheep export trade for Western Australian farmers.
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On June 9, 2018, The Guardian published a report titled 'Live export opponents should check their moral compass, minister says' which detailed the comments made by the Minister for Agriculture, David Littleproud, in defence of Australian farmers' attempts to ensure the humane treatment of livestock.
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On May 23, 2018, columnist for The West Australian, Paul Murray authored an opinion piece entitled ''The end is near for WA live sheep exports''. In it he looks at the trade as in terminal decline, saying that ''a tidal wave of public opposition'' indicates that the continuation of ''live sheep exports is doomed.'' Murray notes that calls to stop the trade have been building for thirty-three years and that the ''time has come for the farm lobbies to focus on their exit strategy, rather than put all the effort into preserving a trade that is becoming increasingly uneconomic ... ''
Murray also points out that the involvement of federal lobbyists supporting the mainly WA-based sheep export business indicates that exporters of live cattle to foreign abattoirs are also worried that their own industry will be affected.
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On May 21, 2018, The Guardian published a report titled 'Coalition MPs introduce bill for ban on live exports, saying industry is not viable'
The report details Liberal MP Sussan Ley's private member's bill to ban live sheep exports.
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On May 9, 2018, The Australian published a report titled 'Sheep ban "affronts farmer dignity", says Barnaby Joyce' detailing the objections of the former leader of the National Party to attempts to ban live sheep exports.
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On May 2, 2018, ABC News, published a news item by Brett Worthington, 'Livestock exporter raised concerns with Federal Government before thousands of sheep died at sea'. In this item, a spokesperson for the WA exporter, Wellard, said that the government had previously been warned that livestock deaths would continue unless 'substandard ships' ceased to be used to deliver livestock to foreign buyers.
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On April 29, 2018, The Guardian published a news item, 'Live export boss says sheep 'have generous space allocation'', by Dominique Schwartz. In the item, Emmanuel Exports' managing director Graham Daws blames a 'catastrophic' heat wave for the livestock deaths and added that the latest shipment aboard the Al Messilah would have more space allocated for each animal.
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On April 23, 2018, The Australian published a news item, 'Live sheep export ban 'would leave farmers struggling', by Greg Brown, in which a farmer was interviewed for his opinion of the possible banning of live sheep exports.
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On April 21, 2018, The Guardian's rural reporter, Calla Wahlquist, wrote a background article, '33 years on, a long-term solution to live export trade remains elusive'
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On April 21, 2018, the Sydney Morning Herald published an opinion article, 'Live sheep exports are not worth the moral cost', by Dr Julie P Smith, an associate professor at the Australian National University School of Global Governance and Regulation. Dr Smith became a vegetarian after seeing a previous set of Animals Australia videos, aired in 2011.
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On April 12, 2018, The Conversation published an opinion article by political journalist Michelle Grattan. In it, Grattan looked at, among other things, the political fallout from the video footage aired by 60 Minutes.
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On April 10, 2018, The Guardian published a news report titled 'Live exports: mass animal deaths going unpunished as holes in system revealed'
An analysis by Guardian Australia of 70 mortality investigation reports produced by the department shows a number of cases where conditions contrary to ASEL are noted without penalties being imposed.
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On April 9, 2018, The Guardian published a report titled 'Shocking live export conditions not uncommon, animal rights groups say'
The report details allegations from animal welfare groups that the shocking conditions shown in footage of the Australian live export ship Awassi Express in which more than 2,000 sheep died are not uncommon and have been repeatedly reported to the federal regulator.
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On April 9, 2018, News.com.au published a news item entitled, 'They've been crushed: 60 Minutes footage shows sheep live export horror' which described the deaths of thousands of sheep on board a ship bound for the Middle East. The item includes comment from Agriculture Minister David Littleproud and footage from the Animals Australia video aired by the current affairs program '60 Minutes'.
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On April 9, ABC News posted a news item by rural reporter Brett Worthington, 'Live export ban sidelined by Government and Opposition despite growing activist pressure', in which Worthington reports on, among other things, the exporter, Emanuel Exports, plans to use the same ship featured in the Animals Australia videos, to send another 65,000 sheep from Fremantle to the Middle East.
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On April 8, 2018, Emmanuel Exports, operators of the ship which was the focus of the Animals Australia / 60 Minutes footage, released a press statement:
Statement from Emanuel Exports' Director Nicholas Daws. In it, Mr Daws apologises for the incident and outlines measures taken by the company to prevent a repetition.
The full text can be accessed at www.auslivestockexport.com/images/about-alec/Statement_from_Emanuel_Exports_08_April_2018.pdf
On February 8, 2018, ABC News posted a comment, 'How animal activists took on the cattle industry and won', by Dr Peter Chen, a senior lecturer in media and politics at the University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations. He is the author of Animal Welfare in Australia, Politics and Policy.
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On February 5, 2018, 'The Land' rural newspaper's Andrew Marshall reported that Brazil had suspended live cattle shipments because of concerns over the welfare of the animals. A spokesman for Wellard, the company which also handles Australian sheep and cattle shipments, said that the company was monitoring the situation, although it currently has no cattle export contracts with Brazil. The suspension was apparently made after the Brazilian animal rights group, the National Forum for Protection and Animal Defence.
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On October 27, 2017, ABC News published a report titled 'Dead sheep numbers unknown aboard live export ship, despite formal investigation'
The report detailed the curiously inconclusive data regarding the number of sheep that had died while being transported from Fremantle to the Middle East in July 2016.
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On July 18, 2016, the Australian Parliament published a background paper titled 'Live export: a chronology' The paper traces the history of live exports from Australia from the 1830s through to June 2016.
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In June 2013, Issues Magazine published a comment and analysis titled 'Australia Leads the World in Livestock Export'. The piece is written by Alison Penfold, the chief executive officer of the Australian Livestock Exporters' Association and seeks to establish the importance of the live export industry to Australia.
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The National Farmers Federation has a section of its Internet site given over to derailing the importance of live exports and the steps taken by Australia to conduct the trade humanely.
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On its Internet site, the Australian Livestock Exporters Council supplies details of the steps taken by the Australian live export industry to ensure the humane treatment of exported livestock.
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The RSPCA's Internet site includes a timeline from 1989 to the present listing tragedies associated with Australia's live animal exports.
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