//If you need proof look up the archives and look for a Mr D Hughes a major sheep/livestock grower back when all this began.//

Aren't you supposed to be a wog, ALTRAVing lunatic?

Hughes doesn't sound like a wog name.

Tony, you are just digging yourself a bigger and bigger hole. Now sunshine, shut-up, listen and learn. Now Mr Dave Hughes was the sheep station/farmer/owner. He headed the delegation along with the relevant govt rep and ministers. I was just one of the group who was part of the supply chain/infrastructure. Don't you watch TV when the govt makes a big deal of some new export or venture with/to another country. Now, got it? What have you done, previously or lately which has helped Australia's balance of payments/exports and so on. Yes I'm a wog, so what I'm supposed to sit back, bludge off the govt, collect the dole and completely destroy any form of self esteem and personal pride. No wait now who does that remind me of. For the next several years we designed and built any and all the transport equipment required by the Saudi's, from sheep crates to transport equipment to facilitate the importation and housing the millions of sheep which were ultimately and still being exported to the middle East today. So if I don't stop to shed a tear for the odd sheep dying, either in the paddock, in the sheep crate or in the sheep ship, I don't appologise. I leave that little job to all the soft cock, nancys out there. I take it as what it is and just move on. If you want a sheep for a pet, I am sure there are many places that will accommodate you. This is not one of them.

"I was just one of the group who was part of the supply chain"

ALTRAV, were yo one of the sheep?

Baa, baa.

Guys, enough. I'm actually tired. Can't you see what your doing to your credibility. Now I'm beginning to feel sorry for you as the other commentors read what you are saying. I know we have differing opinions on practically everything, let's agree to disagree. I'm too old to try to talk like a primary school bully, so let's just leave it for the next topic, where we can sling mud to our hearts content.

I suppose if they ban live sheep exports, they can always convert those ships over to low budget Middle East cruises for us Aussies. "Join 20,000 others Australians as you take a one way $10 final trip of a lifetime to the Middle East! Enjoy the sea sickness, and lack of food and water as you get tossed overboard somewhere in the middle of the Indian Ocean 2,000 clicks from landfall. Book your standing room only now, you wont last at this price."