{"id":1553,"date":"2019-02-15T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2019-02-15T01:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:50:42","slug":"secret-documents-reveal-government-interfered-with-live-export-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/15\/secret-documents-reveal-government-interfered-with-live-export-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Secret Documents Reveal Government Interfered With Live Export Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has revealed documents that show the Department of Agriculture had a role in editing and reviewing the review of its own culture. Senator Faruqi obtained the documents through an Order for Production of Documents into all draft versions of the \u201cReview of the Regulatory Capability and Culture of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Regulation of Live Animal Exports\u201d, known as the Moss Review. \u00a0Fairfax coverage of the issue is available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/independent-review-into-live-exports-was-softened-after-department-criticised-draft-findings-20190205-p50vob.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Senator Faruqi said:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis was a review of the Agriculture Department&#8217;s culture and performance and the fact that they had a role in influencing the report is completely unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt is blatantly obvious that the Department did everything in its power to try and weaken the report\u2019s recommendations. That is not a regulator interested in animal welfare, it is a regulator interested in defending the cruel live exports industry.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhilst the Moss Review was quite rightly deeply critical of the Department of Agriculture as the regulator of live exports, the level of Agriculture Department involvement, even down to the detail of suggesting track changes of the document is deeply inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLive export is inherently cruel. The reality is that it cannot be regulated to meet community expectations on animal welfare. The only solution is to shut it down,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator for NSW and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, has revealed documents that show the Department of Agriculture had a role in editing and reviewing the review of its own culture. Senator Faruqi obtained the documents through an Order for Production of Documents into all draft versions of the \u201cReview of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/02\/15\/secret-documents-reveal-government-interfered-with-live-export-report\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Secret Documents Reveal Government Interfered With Live Export Report&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}