Commuters be warned:the roads may be as packed as a livestock saleyard pen on Friday morning when truckers,farmers and their supporters drive through Perth as part of the Keep the Sheep protest movement.
The Albanese government has passed a ban on the controversial trade in the last state still doing it:WA. Could it dent Labor’s federal election hopes?
The welfare of sheep is shaping as a key issue in Western Australia ahead of this year’s federal election.
Australia’s lobster exports are the last commodity to remain barred from the massive Chinese market.
Keep the Sheep,the industry and lobbyist-backed grassroots farmers’ group,drew some big names to their cranky rally outside parliament.
Keep the Sheep are promising to make themselves known at a rally in Canberra this week.
Mitchell and Kwinana freeway and Stirling Highway commuters should prepare for added congestion Friday morning as #keepthesheep campaigners head to Elizabeth Quay.
But even as the agriculture sector praised the federal government for the lifting of restrictions,Labor faces a fight over a proposed ban on live sheep exports.
The state and federal governments are at loggerheads over the planned phase out of live sheep exports by 2028,with WA Premier Roger Cook branding the move “not good enough” and demanding more industry support.
Infiltrating the facility to check on humane treatment of cattle,the activist said he was hit by “a mob with a mob mentality”.