Senate debates
Thursday, 12 September 2019
Questions without Notice
Live Animal Exports
2:38 pm
Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source
Thank you, Senator Faruqi. The Department of Agriculture are the regulator of live animal exports in this country, as you know, and they take that role incredibly seriously. We as a nation can be confident that the system we've put in place in response to the Moss review and the McCarthy review, which were instigated as a result of the horrific voyage last year on the Awassi Express, has been a very, very strong action and has resulted in significant changes in behaviour by many animal exporters. We have seen voyage mortality rates go down to 0.1 per cent, which is astounding given the trigger for investigation is at one per cent. That's as a result of changes in stocking density and making sure the animals have—
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