‘Sheep Are Our Lifeline’: Farmer’s Daughter Pleads With Albanese Against Live Export Ban

A West Australian sheep farmer’s daughter has penned an open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, highlighting the challenged faced by producers.

An Australian farmer checks his phone for weather updates in Boggabri, Australia, on Oct. 3, 2019. David Gray/Getty Images

A West Australian sheep farmer’s daughter and trainee livestock agent has penned an open letter to newly re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging him to rethink the Labor government’s ban on live sheep exports by sea.

Last year, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt announced the ban, which is set to come into place on May 1, 2028.