Farmers Warn Regions to Face Multi-Million Dollar Losses Due to Sheep Export Ban

‘This will absolutely decimate—and I’m not using that word lightly—regional Western Australia.’

Sheep drink from a small dam in a farm paddock in the south of Western Australia on March 24, 2024. Susan Mortimer/The Epoch Times

The Albanese government’s decision to shut down the live sheep export will cost rural communities in Western Australia millions of dollars over the next decade, a farmer advocacy group has warned.

The comment came after the federal government introduced laws to the lower house on May 30, that it would commit to phasing out live exports by May 2028.