{"id":16513,"date":"2022-05-07T05:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=16513"},"modified":"2022-05-07T05:14:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T05:14:54","slug":"labor-betrayal-on-live-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/labor-betrayal-on-live-export\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor betrayal on live export"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has panned Labor\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.6pr.com.au\/albanese-confirms-backflip-on-live-sheep-export-ban\/\">apparent swift backflip today<\/a>&nbsp;on its promised phase-out of live sheep export.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFederal Labor should grow a spine and unequivocally recommit to this important policy, which they took to the last election. But it seems they can\u2019t even do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnimal welfare advocates have been campaigning for years to put an end to this cruel trade. This will be incredibly disappointing for them, but given Labor\u2019s track record, perhaps not surprising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSheep routinely die horrific deaths or suffer immense heat stress because of the live export trade. \u201cThe Greens have already been clear that in the balance of power, we will keep pushing Labor to bring live sheep export to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDoes Labor stand for anything?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Animal Welfare spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has panned Labor\u2019s&nbsp;apparent swift backflip today&nbsp;on its promised phase-out of live sheep export. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cFederal Labor should grow a spine and unequivocally recommit to this important policy, which they took to the last election. But it seems they can\u2019t even do that. \u201cAnimal welfare advocates &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/05\/07\/labor-betrayal-on-live-export\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor betrayal on live export&#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-16513","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\/16513","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=16513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16514,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16513\/revisions\/16514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}