Fed: Live animal trade on last legs: Democrats

AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2004
Fed: Live animal trade on last legs: Democrats

CANBERRA, Feb 5 AAP - The live animal trade was on its last legs, the Australian Democrats
said today.

Party leader Andrew Bartlett said the federal government's decision to recoup the $10.2
million cost of the Cormo Express affair may be the industry's death knell.

The government is levying live animal trading companies $1.50 for every head of cattle,
60 cents for every sheep or lamb and 40 cents for every goat to cover the cost incurred
solving the Cormo affair.

Last August, the Saudi Arabian government rejected a shipment of 57,000 live …