Aust government waste another 2.2 million of tax payers money on live ex

Wow is this industry desperate: trials to dehumidify ships so that they can resume a ME summer sheep trade!

The good news is that they finally get the fact that ship conditions are a major welfare condition that need to be addressed (after 40 years).

The bad news is that the dehumidification trial is funded through an Australian Government grant of $2.2 million. What a waste of money.....If the ships can be dehumidifed, what happens then? Sheep conditioned to low WBT emerge in Qatar to be loaded into trucks in high WBT...and then off to high WBT in the feedlots. How are the industry going to address that? Dehumidify the trucks and the feedlots or perhaps just dehumidify the whole Middle East?

If only the money had been used to really help primary producers transition and find new markets rather than just wasting more money on a dying trade.