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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

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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
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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
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
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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
Federal Agriculture Minister Murray announcing the ban in Perth today.

‘It’s not good enough’: WA, federal governments at odds over live sheep exports ban plan

The state and federal governments are at loggerheads over the planned phase out of live sheep exports by 2028, with WA Premier Roger Cook branding the move “not good enough” and demanding more industry support.

  • Jesinta Burton
The animal rights activist was caught by meat workers before he could escape.

Caught at an Indonesian abattoir, this activist says he was beaten, burnt and smeared with blood

Infiltrating the facility to check on humane treatment of cattle, the activist said he was hit by “a mob with a mob mentality”.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
The ship at the centre of an emerging diplomatic muddle, the Brahman Express.

Indonesia told of mass cattle deaths only days after ship had left

Indonesia says it would have liked to have known earlier that 151 animals had died on a transport vessel from Darwin.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies

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