The Livestock Collective Director Holly Ludeman says the federal government moving forward on phasing out livestock exports would be “disappointing” to see Australia back out of the market.
“It would really be disappointing for Australia to remove itself from this market – there’s a lot of demand for chilled
and live, it’s not as simple as saying we can have one or the other, they are synergistic,” Ms Ludeman told Sky News Australia.
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