Livestock
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Live Animal Export: Running out of options
Dr Lynn Simpson looks at the South African livestock trades. With no apparent intention to comply with the new Australian…
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Live Animal Export: Poetic justice
Dr Lynn Simpson recalls how she put pen to paper 16 years ago to record her worst ever livestock voyage.…
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Livestock shipper Wellard looks at vessel sales after defaulting on debt
Financially troubled Australian livestock exporter Wellard may be forced to sell one of its ships after it defaulted on debt…
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Wellard founder steps down
Australia’s top livestock shipping company is changing management. Mauro Balzarino, the founder and CEO of Wellard for the past 15…
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Live Animal Export: Can farmers find an alternative in only 40 weeks?
Livestock carriers have the oldest age profile in deepsea shipping. The sulphur cap should ensure many of them find their…
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Live Animal Export: Industrial insecurity
Regular livestock contributor Dr Lynn Simpson makes her 2019 debut warning there’s still plenty to fix in this trade. Where…
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Australian authorities take action against unstable livestock carrier
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has withdrawn the Australian Certificate for the Carriage of Livestock (ACCL) for the livestock…
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Unstable livestock carrier detained
In another setback for the Australian livestock exporting community a ship carrying more than 4,300 cows was detained today after…
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Live Animal Export: Review dismembers current Australian regulations
Dr Lynn Simpson gives her verdict on the Moss review looking into Australia’s Live Animal Export industry. Several months late…
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Live Animal Export: Australian export licence permanently cancelled
Dr Lynn Simpson reports on a remarkable day as the livestock trades edge ever closer to oblivion. After decades of…
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Live Animal Export: The global trade is dying
Dr Lynn Simpson reports on the pullback from live animal exports seen across the world in recent months. Too many…
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Livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson unveils dramatic new podcast series
Splash’s livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson, whose searing articles for this site have helped bring change to the sector, has…
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Live Animal Export: As one DAWR opens, another Daw closes
Dr Lynn Simpson looks at what has happened to the Australian livestock export trades since April’s dramatic 60 Minutes exposé…
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Emanuel Exports handed livestock ban
Canberra has suspended Emanuel Exports’s licence in the waking of shocking footage of conditions on a ship carried on a…
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Australian livestock trades change direction
The livestock trades out of Australia are changing in dramatic fashion in the weeks since a whistleblower seafarer exposed conditions…
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Animals Australia takes legal action over livestock exports
Animal rights group Animals Australia has launched legal action against the Australian federal government and livestock export company Emanuel Exports…
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Australian livestock trader faces criminal probe over Awassi Express deaths
Australian livestock trader Emanuel Exports is facing a criminal investigation, undertaken by the country’s Federal Department of Agriculture, over the…
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Live Animal Export: Seafarer ethics, morals, bravery and honour
Splash’s livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson praises the brave choices made by one Pakistani seafarer who may have changed the…
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Regulatory
Australian politician seeks to capsize livestock shipping
An Australian politician introduced legislation to parliament yesterday to ban the export of live sheep. The government has introduced a…
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Live Animal Export: Ignorant, defiant or stupid?
Splash livestock expert Dr Lynn Simpson is disappointed with changes made to the animal export industry in Australia this week.…
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