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Live exports: just five of 38 eligible ships had Australian animal welfare observers

Australia Mehreen Faruqi Greens Labor

Sheep are seen while being transported to a live export ship in Fremantle Harbour — The government’s approach to live export monitoring is ‘galling and unacceptable’, Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi said. Photograph: Paul Kane/Getty Images

Australia’s independent live export monitoring program has weakened significantly since resuming from a Covid-related pause, with observers sent on just five ships to observe animal welfare conditions.

The 2018 Emmanuel Exports scandal, which involved the deaths of 2,400 sheep from heat stress, prompted the former government to set up an independent monitoring program.

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