Philo said

Indonesia has a responsibility to feed its people so it might just invade Northern Australia to capture land to do so.
Philo out of every post yours stood out to me the most. Reading back wasn't your brother supplying LIVE Animals. Your very involved with the Church- were you not.?
Um , so your saying send these poor animals live because your too scared to stand up for a bit of common decency.
Your Church mob the good Church goers like the Tony abbots of this world are the greatest sinners and weaklings of all.

This is outrageous treatment of Gods creatures and all you can do is
worry about your own bum.
Every single Islamic Society has long lobbied the federal government of Australia to ban live exports because of the cruelty while you lot sit in silence. Yep be frightened because someones after you all right God! But thank you because now we know where to direct our adds!

Not worth debating anymore. Those of us that can muster commonsense seem to agree on a decent approach to the issue, and the resident raving looney keeps promising to go away, but wont. See you all on another thread. :)

Country Gal,
I agree, the best we can hope for is that the trade resumes very soon and that the producers, employees and others involved in the industry are not too badly burned.

Another Labor/green stuff up!

Ahh, some good news at last. I just got a press release from MLA
and they are coming up with some new equipment, based on a
Temple Grandin design. That is exactly what Belly and I had
suggested, so they must be reading our posts here :)

That is indeed good news, Yabby. What a shame that it took the real threat of shutting down the industry for them to take animal welfare issues seriously.

Congratulations to the "houswewives" in Animals Australia for forcing the industry to act belatedly on the issue of inhumane slaughtering of livestock exported from Australia!

Morgan, Animals Australia intend to throw thousands of Australians
out of work, clearly you have no objection to that. They could have
designed and installed humane equipment in the third world some
years ago, if they were really concerned about animal welfare
in the third world. They chose not to.

There is no such thing as "the industry", simply many different
players as components. Are you going to blame Aboriginals who
run stations now, for being parts of the industry?

The ultimate responsibility for this lies with the Minister
for Agriculture. Once again it shows that polticians cannot
be relied on to get too much right.