Sheep bound for virus ship to stay in WA

By Angie Raphael
Updated June 3 2020 - 3:41pm, first published 3:35pm
Sheep bound for the Al Kuwait ship docked in WA will not be loaded due to the live export ban.
Sheep bound for the Al Kuwait ship docked in WA will not be loaded due to the live export ban.

The federal government has refused an exemption to its live export ban that would have allowed 56,000 sheep to be transported to the Middle East, and they will now be slaughtered in Western Australia.

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