70,000 Sign Petition Against Banning Live Sheep Export Trade

The economic cost of the trade ban to the Upper Great Southern region is estimated to range over $470 million.

Sheep graze in a farm paddock behind signs protesting the live sheep ban in the south of Western Australia on June 20, 2024. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

Popularity for the Keep the Sheep activist group continues to grow, says the movement’s spokesman Paul Brown.

Brown’s industry is on the brink after the Albanese Labor government passed legislation to ban the live sheep export trade from May 2028.