Grattan on Friday: Live sheep exports tarnish Australia's reputation and should be stopped
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Australia's sheep trade is worth $250 million annually and involves about two million sheep.Steven Walling/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
If a farmer were caught subjecting animals on his or her property to the suffering endured by the sheep on the Emanuel Exports ship last August, they’d find themselves in court, perhaps in jail, and almost certainly...