After years of negotiation, Landline's Mark Bennett joined a live sheep shipment to Kuwait to see how Australian animal welfare regulations are being met.
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Shipping live sheep to the Middle East has been a key source of income for Western Australian pastoralists for almost 50 years. But the Australian government has vowed to ban the trade following disastrous stock losses at sea and images of suffering sheep, and claims the trade has lost its social licence.
And we warn this story contains images of suffering and dead animals.
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