Animals are transported up to 48 hours without water, late pregnancy animals can be transported.

The Standards written by the industry, to protect industry, fail to provide clearly defined laws for enforcement.
Explanations and alternative standards have been provided.

The animals need your help:

Please click here to read proposed standards;

and here to make your own submission.

New Standards mislead people into thinking that Australian farm animals have protection against cruelty, but the Standards are unenforecable and ambigious, and as such Industry will have plenty of protection against cruelty charges.
Australia's new standards only match that of the OIE which are very low animal welfare standards.

Visit HANDLE WITH CARE Global action website

download and read the
WSPA/Handle With Care report - 'Long distance transport of Australian animals for slaughter' (2.5MB .pdf)

10,000,000 new born sheep die every year on Australian farms

read more

The Truth behind the Live Export Industry. The animals, and the facts & figures !

read more

Australia's "World's Best Practice" in Animal Welfare, or "World's Worst"
AUSTRALIA leads the world in live export animal cruelty.

Live Export | Australian Slaughter | 4 Feb 2008 - RSPCA report analysis of MLA live export standard

What's the Real Value of Australia's Live Export Trade ?

click here to read ABS Facts vs Industry claims

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is the officially recognised Australian government agency that collects and publishes statistical information about Australia and its people.

Australia slaughterhouse abuse of baby calves:

Bobby Calves Journey Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq_0K0q-JP4

Bobby Calves Journey Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gquF55FVoBk

Another example of Australia's proud animal welfare record:
Sheep tortured by electric prod before death..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT60wBShF68

The WA State Solicitor's advice is that the Magistrate erred in her judgement and should have convicted live export company Emanuel Exports Pty Ltd and its two directors of animal cruelty. West Australian Government Minister Ljiljanna Ravlich ordered the appeal against the verdict to be withdrawn.

Please click here to send a letter to Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter urging him to instruct the State Solicitor to reinstate the appeal process that can legally expose the live export trade for what it really is—a cruel and indefensible industry.

In the 21st century, Western Australia remains an Animal Welfare Backwater.

Western Australia occupies 33% of the land mass of Australia.

March 2008 - the West Australian government reduces funding to the Animal Welfare Unit, effectively cutting the number of inspectors from 6 down to 2.

That's just 2 inspectors to cover all saleyards, ports, research facilities and transportation in an area covering 2,526,786 square kilometres.

Live Export Investigation 2007

Animals Australia provide yet again damning evidence of the ongoing cruelty in the Live Export trade. This Animals Australia investigation was aired on the ABC's 7.30 Report Thursday 6th Oct 2007

View this dramatic evidence of continuing cruelty in the live sheep trade - direct link to ABC 7.30 Report Video

EXPOSED
Continuing Live Export Cruelty

Despite ongoing Australian Government claims of industry improvements, Animals Australia obtained the damming reports on "reportable voyages" (read more), and as a result have submitted official complaints of animal cruelty to the West Australian Government's Animal Welfare Unit.