'Lazy’ call for NSW to go rouge and refuse to provide animals for live export

Alex Druce
Updated May 17 2018 - 6:00pm, first published 5:30pm
Mr Pearson, fresh from supporting a Select Committee that will examine activist farm trespassers, moved that the NSW Upper House condemn the live animal export industry, call for a ban on live animal exports, and refuse to provide land transport of live NSW animals to ports or other states to board on live export ships.
Mr Pearson, fresh from supporting a Select Committee that will examine activist farm trespassers, moved that the NSW Upper House condemn the live animal export industry, call for a ban on live animal exports, and refuse to provide land transport of live NSW animals to ports or other states to board on live export ships.

THE feds might have set a new course on live export, but hours after announcing tighter penalties and standards, state parliament heard NSW farmers shouldn’t be interacting with the industry at all. 

Alex Druce

Alex Druce

Senior Journalist

Politics and rural issues journo in Sydney. Give me a yell at adruce@fairfaxmedia.com.au

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