{"id":21158,"date":"2023-05-12T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21158"},"modified":"2023-05-12T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T12:17:38","slug":"government-report-confirms-abject-failures-in-live-export-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/government-report-confirms-abject-failures-in-live-export-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOVERNMENT REPORT CONFIRMS ABJECT FAILURES IN LIVE EXPORT REGULATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian&nbsp;Greens&nbsp;Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare has responded to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms\/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.greens.org.au.mcas.ms%2Ft%2Fy-i-pjttidy-l-y%2F%3FMcasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=b87fe5ed9c802d3c3128d68ddafdd554de7b6aad0533cc1b3ee7f8be91657d54\">new government report<\/a>&nbsp;on Australia\u2019s regulatory system for live export, which examined shocking footage captured inside overseas slaughterhouses and found systemic non-compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe report is a damning indictment of the Department of Agriculture\u2019s ability to protect cattle exported by Australian producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt the heart of the failures lies an insurmountable conflict of interest; the welfare of animals will never be the priority for a department that also exists to promote and protect the industry. We need an Independent Office of Animal Welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe report examined truly horrific footage of animal suffering. Shockingly though, the Department recommended no further sanctions for this horrific cruelty despite finding non-compliance at every single abattoir investigated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe report confirms, yet again, that live export cannot be made safe for animals. It is a business model built on cruelty and is simply incompatible with animal welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Australian&nbsp;Greens&nbsp;Deputy Leader and Spokesperson for Animal Welfare has responded to a&nbsp;new government report&nbsp;on Australia\u2019s regulatory system for live export, which examined shocking footage captured inside overseas slaughterhouses and found systemic non-compliance. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe report is a damning indictment of the Department of Agriculture\u2019s ability to protect cattle exported by Australian &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/05\/12\/government-report-confirms-abject-failures-in-live-export-regulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOVERNMENT REPORT CONFIRMS ABJECT FAILURES IN LIVE EXPORT REGULATION&#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-21158","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\/21158","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=21158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21159,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21158\/revisions\/21159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}