Tim Storer (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes with concern that:

  (i) three official reviews have found consistent cruelty and failure to meet required standards in the cruel and inhumane live sheep export trade,

  (ii) the Moss Review into the regulation of live animal exports found that:

(A) the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the Department) "lacked the skills" to protect live animals shipped overseas, and

(B) the Department's "focus on trade facilitation and industry regulation appears to have had a negative impact [on] the department's culture as a regulator", and

  (iii) two years ago, the Productivity Commission recommended the establishment of a stand-alone statutory organisation – the Australian Commission for Animal Welfare – to regulate the "efficiency and effectiveness of the livestock export regulatory system" and that it undertake "regular reviews of the livestock export regulatory system"; and

(b) calls on the Federal Government to establish an Australian Commission for Animal Welfare, as recommended, and in the terms proposed, by the Productivity Commission.