Infiltrating the facility to check on humane treatment of cattle,the activist said he was hit by “a mob with a mob mentality”.
Indonesia says it would have liked to have known earlier that 151 animals had died on a transport vessel from Darwin.
Was the true death figure kept secret from the Indonesians? Neither the Australian government nor shipping company will say.
An Australian source told this masthead that more than 150 cattle from a Northern Territory property were dumped at sea.
About 16,000 animals have been packed aboard since January 5,the ship having been ordered to abandon its voyage due to Houthi rebel attacks in the Red Sea.
A ship carrying thousands of sheep and cattle is expected to return to port and could offload its cargo after Australian authorities rejected an application to export the livestock to Israel.
The fate of thousands of sheep and cattle stuck on a vessel off Perth remains in limbo as animal advocates raise concerns a fresh application to export them could be made.
Several hundred cattle have disembarked a live export ship anchored off Perth’s coast,as the federal government continues to defend its handling of the six-day saga.
The ship was bound for the Middle East but as it neared the region it was turned away because of safety concerns due to Houthi rebels’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea.
The trial was set for November 20,five years after the deaths of 2400 sheep from heat stress on a voyage to the Middle East,but will be pulled at the eleventh hour,prompting calls for a corruption inquiry.
Mutton prices,which were more than $100 in January,have dropped to as low as $1 per head in some instances amid a national oversupply of 640,000 sheep.