The Australian Opposition Leader has vowed to stand up for the live sheep export sector as he warned the A$92 million (US$60 million) industry is at risk of being phased out for political expediency.
Speaking at a press conference in Western Australia (WA) on March 10, Peter Dutton promised to “fight against Labor’s attempts to close it down,” and if the centre-left Labor government does close it down, the Coalition would “reinstate it.”
He said the live sheep export trade is a “huge part of the economy” in WA, and shutting it down would not only cripple farmers but also “the stores in town, all of the producers of fertiliser, distributors of all of those products that go into making a modern farm work.”…