Respected NT pastoralist Colin Brett, who helped lead live export class action, dies aged 83

Colin Brett lived at Waterloo Station, 900 kilometres south-west of Darwin. (Supplied: Carmen Brown)

A "true gentleman" of the Northern Territory cattle industry who helped lead a successful class action against the live cattle export ban has died aged 83.

Colin Brett's family were lead claimants in the class action against the federal government's snap ban on the live cattle trade to Indonesia in 2011, which the Federal Court later ruled was unlawful.