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18 Aug, 2024 09:26 PMQuick Read
Authorities are investigating an air shipment of sheep to Indonesia. Photo / Pixabay
About 80 sheep have died whereas being air freighted from Australia to Indonesia.
The Australian Cattle Exporters Council talked about the breeder sheep deaths came about on Saturday evening and it characterised the incident as regrettable.
The sheep were headed to Jakarta.
The federal agriculture department, which is the bogus regulator, has obtained a correct away document.
The council, LiveAir, the exporter and the air freight operator will work with the regulator as the investigation progresses.
The Australian government launched reside sheep exports by sea will be banned from Could perhaps also 2028 after laws handed the Senate in July.
Australia’s Labor Salvage together vowed to cease the bogus amid animal rights concerns after hundreds of sheep died of heat stress whereas en path to the Heart East.
The RSPCA has long campaigned against reside exports and says the bogus is “unfixable”.
The federal government has slated a A$107 million ($117m) transition equipment to float to affected farmers.
Closing-minute lobbying by Western Australia farmers and exporters modified into no longer enough to have the laws blocked.
Farmers have warned some WA cities will die once the law comes into drive and vowed to try Labor’s marginal seats.
– AAP
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