70,000 Sign Petition Against Banning Live Sheep Export Trade

Published on July 31, 2024

Popularity for the Keep the Sheep activist group continues to grow, says the movement’s spokesman Paul Brown. Brown’s industry is on the brink after the Albanese Labor government passed legislation to ban the live sheep export trade from May 2028. “The way they [the federal government] rushed it through the House of Representatives and the Senate shows you that in our conversations with the Minister [for Agriculture Murray Watt] and the prime minister, we got no support from them,” he told The Epoch Times. “They’re not about animal welfare. It was purely about votes on the east coast and supporting their voter base.”...

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