Sentences with phrase «animal export»

Mr Speaker, much has been said of compensation for the Australian live animal export industry and yes, the Government should help the industry deal with the current moratorium's commercial jolt.

For more than a decade, our investigators have worked to bring to light the systemic abuse of animals exported live overseas.

● A ban on live animal exports from Canada.

It beggars belief a succession of Australian governments have let us down in this way, as does the revelation Meat and Livestock Australia has been fleecing producers for years, raking in enormous fees off the back of the lie it was looking after the interests of the Australian live animal export industry and the beasts it deals with, only to be busted as an irresponsible, incompetent, dishonest and uncaring bunch of cowboys.

It's not like these governments didn't have cause to keep an eye on our live animal export trade given all the problems the business has experienced year after year, in country after country.

The number of Australian animals exported has declined sharply over the past five years, in large part thanks to the relentless actions of caring Australians.

More broadly I call on everyone in this place to support the Live Animal Export restriction and Prohibition Bill 2011.

In contrast, herd re-stocking, following the easing of drought conditions in many areas, is expected to weigh on meat and live animal exports in the near term.

However, through our investigations into the treatment of animals exported overseas, Animals Australia has helped raise awareness about animal welfare and improve conditions for animals abroad as well.

ESCAS was introduced into Australia's live animal export markets following the controversial 2011 Indonesian live cattle export ban by the former Labor government.

«Of the millions of animals exported under ESCAS there have been 22 identified incidents of non-compliance where the animal welfare outcome was either adverse or unknown.

However, the inherent cruelty involved in this trade, reinforced most recently by the tragic deaths of some 3,000 Brazilian cattle onboard a live export ship, means animals exported live will always be at risk at sea and in importing countries.

If you want to see an end to live animal exports too, please spare one minute to click here and remind your MP that animals deserve better.

A Liberal MP is pressing ahead with laws to ban live animal exports despite efforts by farming groups to convince her against it.

See the footage Dr Abdelwahab provided to Animals Australia and urge Australian politicians to put an end to live animal export here.

«The inspector - general would be for animal welfare and live animal exports at the federal level, and he or she would be the cop on the beat overlooking the regulator to ensure that the regulator did its work fully and properly,» he said.

Mr Speaker this Bill dovetails perfectly with the Member for Kennedy's Motion seeking to energise the Government's immediate response to Australia's live animal export crisis.

Mr Speaker the economic argument is in fact strongly in favour of banning live animal exports because of the way the trade is cannibalising the processed meat industry at the expense of thousands of Australian jobs.

The staff constantly exceeded the level of service I expected from them, from calling my every hour on the hour, during our elderly Labs tumor removal surgery to helping us through 9 months of grueling animal export procedures for our departure to Australia!

Australia mulls the future of live animal exports after abysmal conditions on transport ships exposed by whistleblowers.

Recognised internationally for strategic public awareness campaigning, our investigations and those of our partner organisations have exposed the extreme abuse of animals exported from Australia, Europe and South America, galvanising caring people from right around the world to speak out for animals and demand an end to the global live export trade.

will be presenting a petition to end live export during a joint press conference with Animals Australia, RSPCA Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU) in Canberra on Tuesday 31st May 2011 to demand that the Gillard Government immediately halts live export to Indonesia and commits to a phase out of the live animal export trade.

Such an approach also considers the graziers, the indigenous station hands, the truckers, the shipping line operators, the feed producers, and everyone else involved in the live animal export industry who are in difficulty right now from the jolt of this entirely warranted but nonetheless unexpected decision by Government.

Animal protection groups have since spoken out repeatedly about the abuses endemic to the trade, uncovering case after case of systemic cruelty to Australian animals exported live.

Our work in South America has so far seen the release of our evidence of live export cruelty in Uruguay and Brazil, where until now, very little was known about the suffering of animals exported from that continent.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan threatens to ramp up action against the live animal export trade, saying he is open to using state law to block livestock carriers breaching animal welfare standards from leaving the state's ports.

The re-stocking process will mean that meat production and live animal exports will fall significantly in 2003/04.

In contrast, meat and live animal exports are expected to fall in the near term, as farmers have begun to re-stock herds and flocks now that pasture conditions have improved (see «Box A: The Recovery from the Drought» for further details).

Mr Joyce said since the Coalition government came to office in September 2013 the value of live animal exports has amounted to $ 1.4 billion and «is continuing to break new ground».

Nothing less than a complete ban on live animal export will appease the Australian public, but the industry now know that the days of lawlessness and secrecy that have been the lifeblood of the live trade, are over.

But while these glimpses inside a transport ship are new, the practice of live animal export is as old as the European colonisation of Australia.

Labor said the abattoir suspension also highlighted the need to restore Labor's independent Inspector General of Animal Welfare and Live Animal Exports, a position abolished by Mr Joyce.

The number of animals exported live out of Australia is set to increase as Australia prepares to enter into a A$ 1 billion trade agreement with China.

Whilst consecutive Federal Governments continue to defend this indefensible trade, it is critical that all caring Australians be given the opportunity to learn the truth about live animal export.

Australian live export regulations, called the Export Supply Chain Assurance Scheme (ESCAS), dictate that all animals exported from Australia must be kept within approved supply chains.

Over the past seven years, Animals Australia has conducted investigations into the treatment of animals exported live to the Middle East.

Yes, the Government has done the right thing by imposing a moratorium on live animal exports to Indonesia and I applaud it along with the Minister for Agriculture for doing so.

For a start ending all live animal exports will not destroy our relationship with Indonesia, because our ties with that country are stronger than critics give them credit for and are certainly strong enough to survive our decision to stop selling it just one form of one particular foodstuff.

Whether it be Barnaby Joyce's admission of «we wuz wrong» on the banking royal commission or Sussan Ley on the live animal export industry, it's been a week where ex-ministers free of the shackles of Cabinet solidarity can say what they really think.

But let us not forget it's Meat and Livestock Australia which stands out as the organisation funded and trusted to safeguard Australia's live animal export trade and it's Meat and Livestock Australia which has not given a toss except to suck up the cash while showing complete and utter contempt for the industry which pays its bills.

In the decades since, while our country stuck its neck out for marine mammals, a new local trade in cruelty picked up steam, largely hidden from the wider Australian community: live animal export.

Yes, I certainly do see the point in abolishing the industry immediately because the live animal export trade is deeply flawed and no amount of remedial action can be sure to safeguard the animals.

In other words it is MLA which should now put its grubby hands into its very deep pockets and pull out the cash needed to help support the live animal export industry while the Australian Government puts in place the safeguards necessary before trade can resume.

The religious dimension of this matter has also been mischievously overcooked by the live animal export industry, because the fact is that the overwhelming number of relatively affluent Muslims who tend to consume Australian meat would have no objection to buying that meat so long as it's been processed in an Australian Halal certified abattoir.

Most importantly the Bill will end all live animals exports by mid-2014, as it should, because the live animal export system is broken and beyond repair, and the arguments against shutting it down baseless.

Even those, like me, who have been concerned with live animal exports for a long time felt energised to do whatever we could to finally do something and this Bill, the Live Animal Export Restriction and Prohibition Bill 2011, will do just that.

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The Australian agriculture minister, David Littleproud, vowed to investigate and study mortality in live animal exports.