Barnaby Joyce attacks live sheep export 'zealots' at heated rally of WA farmers in Katanning

Barnaby Joyce has issued a rallying call to defend Australia's live export trade to a crowd of about 1,000 farmers in Western Australia's south, after footage showing heat-stressed and dying Australian sheep sparked a public backlash against the multi-million-dollar industry.

The Member for New England received a warm welcome in Katanning, about 280 kilometres south-east of Perth in Western Australia's sheep farming heartland.

He said if recent threats to shut down the live sheep industry were successful, the "zealots" would then come for the live cattle industry and then the transport and poultry industry.

"What we're up against, is like a religion," Mr Joyce said.

"Zealotry. And they're not going to stop with just the closure of the live export sheep game, that's not where they stop. These people haven't got a partial religion, they've got an absolute religion."

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I am wondering if tonight Turnbull is having a 'think' about why none of his Party won a seat in todays elections across the country.      

If he doesn't do something positive about the live export he will have a problem at the national election.

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