The fact that no-one will ever be charged for the horrific cruelty inflicted on sheep on Emanuel Exports’ Awassi Express in 2017 is an apt end to a saga in which the most depraved treatment of animals was considered business as usual by regulators, bureaucrats, courts and prosecutors — and shows why Labor’s promise to end live sheep export can’t be implemented fast enough.
The department notionally in charge of overseeing the live sheep export trade, the federal Agriculture Department, knew for years about the disgusting conditions imposed on animals by Emanuel Exports and did nothing — with the connivance of its National Party ministers.
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