Live Export

Moroccan delegation flags demand for up to 100,000 sheep

LIVE sheep — up to 100,000 a year — are on the urgent shopping list of a Moroccan delegation in Western Australia this week…Read More

Sheep Central, February 12, 2025

WA livestock exporters and AgForce push for live sheep export reprieve

WESTERN Australian livestock exporters and Keep the Sheep supporter AgForce this week ramped up their efforts to generate political pressure for a reversal of the proposed ban on live sheep exports by sea in May 2028…Read More

Sheep Central, February 10, 2025

Keep the Sheep makes pre-election plea to PM on live sheep trade

WESTERN Australian lobby group Keep the Sheep has brazenly asked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to reverse the phaseout of live sheep exports by sea…Read More

Sheep Central, February 5, 2025

WA CSIRO manager takes live sheep phaseout transition job

WESTERN Australian-based CSIRO program manager Dr Chris Rodwell has been appointed as the transition advocate for the Albanese Labor Government’s phaseout of live sheep exports by sea…Read More

Sheep Central, January 29, 2025

Peak sheep body stays in live sheep transition co-design process

PEAK body Sheep Producers Australia will participate in the co-design process for the Federal Government’s live sheep export transition support package, but remains highly sceptical genuine assistance will be delivered to affected farmers…Read More

Sheep Central, January 21, 2025

Sheep exporters reject phaseout co-design process invitation

AUSTRALIAN livestock exporters have declined a Federal Government offer to participate in the co-design process for the phaseout of live sheep exports by sea…Read More

Sheep Central, January 20, 2025

Keep the Sheep Here campaign launched to support export ban

WESTERN Australia’s pro-live sheep exports movement Keep the Sheep appears unfazed by the launch of an opposing national animal activist campaign called ‘Keep The Sheep Here’…Read More

Sheep Central, January 17, 2025

Live sheep exporters welcome livestock protocol with Morocco

A NEW market for Australian sheep in Morocco market proved the live export market solved food security problems for overseas countries, the exporters’ peak body said today…Read More

Sheep Central, January 15, 2025

Drover sale marks end of 46-year era for Wellard Rural Exports

THE sale of its final vessel has marked the end of an almost 50-year journey in the global livestock export trade for Wellard Limited…Read More

James Nason, January 15, 2025

Keep the Sheep urges Tasmanian salmon workers to fight on

KEEP the Sheep campaigners have sided with Tasmanian salmon workers seeking to save their industry from activist-initiated opposition to the fishery in Macquarie Harbour on the state’s west coast…Read More

Sheep Central, December 9, 2024

SPA also raise concerns about transition advocate proposal

A PEAK sheep meat body’s response to a claim the Federal Government’s transition advocate role for the live sheep sea trade phaseout was a poisoned chalice has highlighted differing industry approaches to the issue…Read More

Sheep Central, December 4, 2024

Wool industry leaders unite at Western Australia crisis meeting

AUSTRALIA’S wool sector leaders have united to call for more federal and state government action about the impacts of the proposed live sheep export ban on the Western Australian industry…Read More

Sheep Central, December 2, 2024

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