Summary of proposal
Party
Australian Greens
Policy Topic
Agriculture
Portfolio
Agriculture and Water Resources
This proposal has four components relating to live animal exports.
- Component 1: Provide $1 million in 2019‐20, and $2 million each year from 2020‐21 to 2022‐23, to assist farmers to transition from live animal exports to a domestic boxed and chilled meat trade. Departmental expenses required to administer this funding would be in addition to the specified capped amounts.
- Component 2: Ban the export of racing greyhounds from 1 July 2019.
- Component 3: Provide $20 million in additional funding to the Australian Federal Police from 2020‐21 to 2024‐25, spread evenly over the five years, for the enforcement of animal welfare laws.
- Component 4: End intensive factory farming across Australia from 1 July 2019.
- Element 1: Ban cage egg production, end sow stalls and other cruel animal farming practices.
- Element 2: Enforce genuine free range standards for all animals.
- Element 3: Improve food labelling laws to help identify genuine free range and cruelty‐free products.