Commentary
The Australian federal government needs to reverse its disastrous policy to ban live sheep exports.
The Labor party of today seems more beholden to inner-city green elites than the workers who serve in the sheep industry and were the spiritual founders of their party.
The many shearers and farm workers who founded the union movement in the great outback of Australia would be spinning in their graves to witness the recent decision of the party they helped found turning its back on their sector with the loss of jobs for hundreds, if not thousands, of their mates.
The decision to ban live sheep exports will have major ramifications (pun intended)—not only for the producers whom the Canberra political elite would ignorantly dismiss as landed gentry….