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Australia is the world's largest live exporter of animals for slaughter. The trade involved over three million animals in 2011 valued at approximately A$1 billion, of which the majority were cattle and sheep. However, the live export trade only accounts for 0.4% of all Australian exports, as of 2014. [1]
The following is a list of the top 20 exports of Australia in 2017-18, as reported by its Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [1] # Commodity Value (A$ million)
An anti Live Export trade protest in Brisbane, June 2019. Australia's live export industry has experienced significant scrutiny by animal welfare groups since 2003. The RSPCA is opposed to live export. [13] Over 550,000 animals are reported to have died en route during live export journeys between 2000–2012. [14]
The RSCPA and other groups oppose the live export of animals, and New Zealand banned such exports by sea last year after a ship bound for China sank in a typhoon in 2020, killing almost 6,000 cows ...
The Australian government has pledged to end the live export of sheep but has yet to give a timetable about when that will happen. More than 16,000 animals are on board the vessel. - Nine Network ...
The AMIEU has supported a ban on live animal exports since the 2018 animal rights controversy in the Australian live exports industry, and has called for live exports to be replaced by an expanded chilled meat trade. [7]
Indonesia is the largest market for Australian live cattle exports, accounting for about 56% in 2021–22, data showed, worth about A$900 million ($600 million). It is a trade that Australia's ...
This is a list of the largest two-way trading partners of Australia, based on data released by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for the 2022 calendar year. [ 1 ] The largest trading partners