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250325 1 Media Release Keep the Sheep Rally May 2024. Protest handout picture. Credit Josh Fernandes Studios

Commuter chaos for Perth as Keep the Sheep trucks clog roads

Commuters be warned: the roads may be as packed as a livestock saleyard pen on Friday morning when truckers, farmers and their supporters drive through Perth as part of the Keep the Sheep protest movement.

  • Cameron Myles

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Sheep on board the Ocean Swagman, set to travel from Perth to the Middle East.

Flock it: The WA farmers hoping to turn live sheep exports into a live election issue

The Albanese government has passed a ban on the controversial trade in the last state still doing it: WA. Could it dent Labor’s federal election hopes?

  • Victoria Laurie
Supporters of live export are planning a lobbying blitz in WA as the practise crystallises as a key election issue.

Live export lobbyists ramp up WA campaign as federal election nears

The welfare of sheep is shaping as a key issue in Western Australia ahead of this year’s federal election.

  • Victoria Laurie
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China’s $20b Australian trade war over as lobster trade resumes

Australia’s lobster exports are the last commodity to remain barred from the massive Chinese market.

  • Lisa Visentin and Mike Foley
Sussan Ley.

Baa-ckflip for Ley on live export trade as Libs flock to farmers’ rally

Keep the Sheep, the industry and lobbyist-backed grassroots farmers’ group, drew some big names to their cranky rally outside parliament.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Ben Sutherland

Grassroots live exports group gets a little friendly ‘seed funding’

Keep the Sheep are promising to make themselves known at a rally in Canberra this week.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
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Ben Sutherland

Grassroots live exports group gets a little friendly ‘seed funding’

Keep the Sheep are promising to make themselves known at a rally in Canberra this week.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The opposition swooped on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s comments.

Coalition has beef with prime minister’s live export joke

A seemingly innocuous remark by Anthony Albanese was swooped on by the federal opposition.

  • Liam Mannix and Kishor Napier-Raman
Keep the Sheep is a movement born to take action against the Albanese Government’s ban on live sheep exports.

WA farmers plan to flood freeways in stand against live export ban

Mitchell and Kwinana freeway and Stirling Highway commuters should prepare for added congestion Friday morning as #keepthesheep campaigners head to Elizabeth Quay.

  • Claire Ottaviano
China has lifted restrictions on five major beef Australian exporters.

China drops its beef with Australia over meat exports

But even as the agriculture sector praised the federal government for the lifting of restrictions, Labor faces a fight over a proposed ban on live sheep exports.

  • Mike Foley

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