Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Greens\u2019 Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, has welcomed the Government\u2019s decision to adopt Greens\u2019 amendments to the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports bill 2019. The amendments insert a much needed focus on animal welfare into the bill, which had previously been completely missing.
\nThe amendments change the objects of the Act to introduce a requirement to consider animal welfare and amend clause 10 of the bill to specifically provide that the Inspector-General must consider the welfare of animals as part of their reviews.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cMy amendments, which the Government has adopted, are a win for animal welfare. Under this Government, any improvement to animal welfare is a hard-fought step forward.
\n\u201cBefore the Government got on board with my changes, the bill didn\u2019t have a single reference to animal welfare. The Greens\u2019 amendments insert a much needed focus on animal welfare and ensure that it is considered in all reviews.
\n\u201cRequiring the Inspector-General to consider animal welfare is an important win, \u00a0but we know that live export is fundamentally incompatible with animal welfare. The only way to protect animals is to ban live exports.
\n\u201cI will always be a voice for animals in Parliament,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, the Greens\u2019 Spokesperson for Animal Welfare, has welcomed the Government\u2019s decision to adopt Greens\u2019 amendments to the Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports bill 2019. The amendments insert a much needed focus on animal welfare into the bill, which had previously been completely missing. The amendments change the objects of the Act to … Continue reading “Greens Win Amendments To Inspector-General of Live Animal Exports Bill”<\/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-3643","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\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}