Alexander, I'm in touch with friends who work on ships, work as part of ESCAS supervising feedlots in places like Indonesia and all the rest. The live trade has made huge strides over the decades and mortalities are half of what occurs in land based feedlots. As always there will be exceptions to the rule and mistakes made. Given the tens of thousands of reports which the RSPCA deal with from pet owners abusing their pets, I think we should clean up our own backyard first before crowing too loudly.

Fact is that WA is an isolated place and moving livestock in a hurry, is a major drought mitigation strategy, or they land up dying in the paddocks. Ships can do that. Local processing facilities can't cope. We are not in Victoria here, where you can truck them down the road to the next State.

Crikey, how long ago was the election…. and Labor still doesn’t have a leader! How bizarre!

And as for the two candidates… ( :>(

What a crying shame Kelvin Thomson didn’t put his name forward.

<Crikey, how long ago was the election…. and Labor still doesn’t have a leader! How bizarre!>

They can't even run a ballot for their leader, apparently.

Yes, it is funny.