Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

  (i) the inherent conflict of interest present when animal welfare issues are regulated by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (the Department),

  (ii) that the Department inappropriately influenced the Review of the Regulatory Capability and Culture of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Regulation of Live Animal Exports, also known as the 'Moss Review' report,

  (iii) that the Department removed words that pointed to its failure in regulating the live export industry and warnings of the risks of corruption, and

  (iv) that the Department further outright rejected some of Mr Moss' draft findings, including dismissing one of the review's conclusions on the Department's inability to address livestock mortality as "overly simplistic"; and

(b) condemns the Federal Government for interfering with the Moss Review.