Someone recons shipping cattle a long way is cruel. You should see the way these animals are rounded up. The cattle hate the choppers buzzing around them, and they are stampeded for 10's of kilometers at a time. That is what is cruel. They are run over by other cattle, they are stripping their gut out on low lying bushes, they are suffering broken legs.

The whole saga of live export is doomed. We must box the meat or package in quarters. Electrical stunning of cattle will never work. The bye product of animal slaughter is the hides and blood. Blood is 98% protein, and the hides are best with only one cut. Unless the beast has it's food passage tied the inner contents of the stomach ends up in the blood collection.

The resurrection of abattoirs in the north. A 15 million $ abattoirs failed because of live export, 10 months after it was completed, everything was stainless steel, only to be pulled apart and sold off.
Bring back the cowboy round up, and value add the meat product. Indonesia is not the only country in the world that eats meat. The southern part of AU could do with a bit as well. $ 25 / kg is poison, and obscene.

Meat from the top end is not welcome here because it will drop the price of beef. The only requirement the indonesians have on it is the carcase weight being around 300 kg's, so they have to be finished in feed lots before slaughter.
These cattle are grown on pretty lean country, and driven mad with dingoe's, hense the lot feeding