Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) | Hansard source

They both said:

… the sensible path for both sides of the debate is to construct a carefully considered transition to ending the trade permanently …

…   …   …

… what we both believe—

This is Sussan Ley and Sarah Henderson, now Senator Henderson—

is an inevitable and permanent ceasing of all live sheep exports to the Middle East.

So it's not just Labor who is supporting this, although we do support this because we can see the opportunity for the sheep industry in more value-adding and more job creation in Western Australia. We're not going to be hypocrites like the National Party and the Liberal Party, who try to pretend that they're the friends of farmers and who try to pretend that they're sticking up for a trade that fell by 80 percent on their watch when they were in government and for which they provided not one cent in transition support, compared to a Labor government that is providing $107 million.

Enough of the hypocrisy from the Nationals and the Liberals. We need to get on with a reform that was voted on by the Australian people at the last election, that is supported by about 70 per cent of the Western Australian public and that will be an improvement to animal welfare while creating hundreds of new jobs in Western Australia.