Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My Senate motion late last year forced the government to release draft versions of the Moss review into the culture of the department of agriculture's regulation of live animal exports. Through this, we have found out that the department did everything in its power to try and weaken the report's recommendations. This is not a regulator interested in animal welfare. It is a regulator interested in defending the cruel live exports industry. Whilst the Moss review was quite rightly deeply critical of the department of agriculture as the regulator of live exports, their level of involvement, even down to the detail of suggesting track changes of the document, is deeply inappropriate. The rot starts at the top, with the minister and with this government. We know this is a government that has zero regard for animal welfare. It's time to ban live exports.

Question negatived.