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Has the federal government gone stark raving mad? They have already put the live cattle export on its knees. They completely ignored departmental advice. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd didn't bother to go to Jakarta. Prime Minister Julia Gillard didn't bother to pick up the telephone to speak to the Indonesian president. But within a few days of the Four Corners program showing terrible cruelty in one particular abattoir, they panicked. MinisterJoe Ludwig suspended the trade for six months. Six months. And including exporters with access to good abattoirs in Indonesia. And now the Indonesians have decided, understandably, that we are not a reliable partner. So they are looking to other sources and they significantly reduced the number of cattle that can be imported. Thousands of jobs are at risk, businesses and property made worthless, and the taxpayers will have to pay the massive damages which the cattle producers are obviously entitled to under any system of decent justice. If that wasn’t enough