WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT LIVE EXPORTS AFTER A VIDEO SHOWED SHEEP DYING ON AN AUSTRALIAN-OWNED SHIP:
* "It's important that we get integrity back into the live trade system. Those people that do wrong need to be held to account, whether it be a company or an individual." - Agriculture Minister David Littleproud
* "The industry has gone through a rough patch here and there was a significant event last year. We're at world's best practice but we need to get better." - Australian Livestock Exporters' Council chief executive Simon Westaway
* "We should make sure this does not happen again. We will work with the government because this issue really is a national disgrace." - Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten
* "Livestock being subjected to cruel and inhumane conditions on substandard export ships is unacceptable. The live export industry must comply with basic animal welfare standards or else there will be growing support within parliament to phase it out, despite the economic impacts." - WA federal Liberal MP Ian Goodenough:
* "I don't think that there would be a West Australian who saw that footage last night that was not completely disgusted with what they saw and understand that what they saw was clearly very great cruelty being perpetrated upon these animals." - WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan
* "It was very distressing and I think the industry itself needs to lift its game and we'll be looking at what we can do at a state level to enforce animal welfare standards to make sure that we reduce the prospect of those things happening again in the future." - WA Premier Mark McGowan
* "There is every reason to believe that what we saw on those five voyages last night is typical of what occurs on every voyage that takes place from Australia's shores." - RSPCA chairman Gary Humphries
* "We have repeat offender exporters that have been sending shipments to the Middle East where vast amounts of animals have been suffering and dying in contravention of Australian laws." - Animals Australia director of strategy Lyn White
* "Any farmer or grazier would be sickened, saddened and angered to think that animals they have worked so hard to breed and raise would perish in a manner such as this." - WAFarmers livestock president David Slade
