After Thirty Years Of Scandals, Barnaby Joyce Still Too Much Of A Coward To Ban Live Export
With yet another horrific live export scandal still making news around Australia, the AMIEU is greatly pleased to see more Australian politicians standing up for animal welfare and for local…
$146 Million For Overseas Abattoirs While Australian Workers Bleed Out
Only days after holding a series of press conferences in which he promised to investigate the latest, horrific live export scandal where hundreds of sheep lost their lives, Agriculture Minister…
Another Day, Another Live Export Scandal
Shocking footage has emerged of animals being mistreated, made to suffer in horrible, disgusting conditions, and dying by the hundreds as they lie bleeding in their own excrement. The government…
Barnaby Joyce Exposed As Incompetent Hypocrite Who Must Resign
The whole of Australia is now realising what meat workers have been talking about for years – that Barnaby Joyce is out of control. Australian media have spent the last…
Hypocritical Live Exporters Seek Massive Government Payout After Destroying Australian Jobs
Australia’s live export producers have just launched a law suit seeking an incredible $600 million in damages from the Federal Government. In July of 2011, all live export trade to…
End The Live Export Rort: It’s Time To Put Local Jobs First
The AMIEU Newcastle & Northern NSW Branch is today calling on the Federal Government to urgently back away from spending taxpayer money propping up the live export trade. Millions of…
More Money For Live Exporters As Local Kids Go Hungry
The Australian taxpayer is about to take another hit propping up the Australian live export industry, following an announcement by Barnaby Joyce over the weekend that he has allocated $8.3…
Death Of A Thousand Cuts: How Live Export Is Killing Australian Meat Work
Late last week the RSPCA expressed its fear that increasing live exports would not only mean an increase in animal cruelty, but also lead to a cut in local abattoir…
Government spends $2 million to train overseas meat workers as cruel live export industry carries on
Australian meat workers, already reeling from the ongoing meat industry crisis, were stunned today to learn that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has just signed a new deal…
New Government, Same Old Meat Industry Crisis
While Australia collectively sighs at the longest and most lukewarm election in living memory, meat workers and their families around the country are continuing to suffer under a two-pronged attack…