DAFF live export decision maker Andrew McDonald.
BELEAGURED Israeli-owned live export vessel the MV Bahijah focused senators on a number of trade issues at a Senate Estimates hearing yesterday.
As the vessel unloaded its 14,000 sheep and 1500 cattle at Fremantle in Western Australia, senators on the Rural Regional Affairs and Transport Legislation Committee grilled Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Murray Watt and his department team on live export issues.
These included the status of a review of the regulator’s independent observer policy, the lack of an upper limit on…
