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Farmers plea with PM to rethink live sheep export ban

The government has been warned banning live sheep exports will have major trade consequences. (Trevor Collens/AAP PHOTOS)

Farming groups have written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese warning the live sheep export ban will cause "irreversible harm" to agriculture and trade with the Middle East.

Labor pledged at the 2019 and 2022 federal elections to end the trade, but the government has consistently said it won't happen this term to allow the industry a smooth transition.

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