Live exports
Australia demands China respect trade deal after shock beef tariffs
Australia’s trade and agriculture ministers have condemned China’s decision to impose new tariffs that could cost the beef industry $1 billion a year.
- Mike Foley and Elias Visontay
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‘We have become our own food scientists’: Navigating a chaotic and confusing billion-dollar industry
What is halal, and how is food certified? Inside an industry that has grown from the suburbs into big business and a major part of Australian trade.
- Mostafa Rachwani
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Australian farmers fear risks as Trump administration claims win on US beef ban
The government insists the move to allow US beef into Australia is the result of a biosecurity review rather than trade talks, but the Trump administration undercut that on Thursday.
- Matthew Knott, Paul Sakkal, Nick Bonyhady and Benjamin Preiss
Where to now for Keep the Sheep after Labor’s thumping election win?
The political wind was not at the live export advocacy group’s back – but not for lack of trying,
- Hamish Hastie
Commuter chaos for Perth as Keep the Sheep trucks clog roads
Commuters be warned: the roads may be as packed as a livestock saleyard pen on Friday morning when truckers, farmers and their supporters drive through Perth as part of the Keep the Sheep protest movement.
- Cameron Myles
Flock it: The WA farmers hoping to turn live sheep exports into a live election issue
The Albanese government has passed a ban on the controversial trade in the last state still doing it: WA. Could it dent Labor’s federal election hopes?
- Victoria Laurie
Live export lobbyists ramp up WA campaign as federal election nears
The welfare of sheep is shaping as a key issue in Western Australia ahead of this year’s federal election.
- Victoria Laurie
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China’s $20b Australian trade war over as lobster trade resumes
Australia’s lobster exports are the last commodity to remain barred from the massive Chinese market.
- Lisa Visentin and Mike Foley
Baa-ckflip for Ley on live export trade as Libs flock to farmers’ rally
Keep the Sheep, the industry and lobbyist-backed grassroots farmers’ group, drew some big names to their cranky rally outside parliament.
- Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Grassroots live exports group gets a little friendly ‘seed funding’
Keep the Sheep are promising to make themselves known at a rally in Canberra this week.
- Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman