Livestock exporters are calling for a review of the Department of Agriculture’s regulatory procedures, after releasing figures showing that the cost of regulation on livestock export businesses has nearly tripled in just five years.
That is despite live export numbers having almost halved from Australia over the same period.
Industry representatives say they fully support robust regulation of their industry and the principle of regulatory cost recovery by Government.
However, they say that if industry is to pay for the cost of regulation, it is “only fair and reasonable” that the…
