Abbott: Labor’s live exports shemozzle

Colin Bettles
Updated October 25 2018 - 12:52pm, first published June 1 2016 - 8:32am
Liberal MP and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Liberal MP and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

FORMER Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Labor’s “bizarre overreaction” to suspend live cattle exports to Indonesia five years ago, was a panic response to a television program that can be partly blamed on the then government’s dearth of rural representation.

Colin Bettles

Colin Bettles

Canberra Bureau Chief

Has been the Canberra Bureau Chief for Fairfax Agricultural Media since 2010 - survived the hung parliament - former media manager at Western Australian Cricket Association now covering national agricultural and rural issues in federal politics.

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