Whilst we would prefer live exports end immediately and also supportive of the Greens» bill which calls for the immediate cessation of the trade, we have chosen to give our full support to the independents» bill, which holds
the greatest political weight, and hope for a permanent ban on the live export trade.
Political economists, indeed, will not give it this rank; but whether we regard it as joke or earnest, it is not the less true, that, of two countries, with an equal amount of population, we may declare with positive certainty, that the wealthiest and most highly civilized is that which consumes the
greatest weight of soap.