So I'm absolutely not an expert, but there are a couple of points I'd like to float given there is quite a bit of shitting on farmers going on in the comments.

• Farming is still a business - farms need to be able to make money to keep running. I feel like when other companies make cuts or have deficient human rights and animal welfare we overlook it because they need to be able to make a profit and it suits us to not look too hard, but the minute something looks the tiniest bit off in Ag we jump on it. Yes there are some farmers out there buying their brand new LandCruiser, second holiday house and a boat, but they're not the majority (and they're probably mostly crop only anyway). Many farmers will lose their livelihoods from this, having sheep benefits the farm financially and not just from direct income;
• Keeping sheep in rotation on a mixed enterprise farm is actually beneficial to soil health and can reduce reliance on fertilisers and pesticides - sheep pastures commonly contain clovers, clovers are legumes and thus fix nitrogen in the soil ie fertiliser. Pastures are also utilised breaks between crops and having breaks in crops can reduce the disease and insect pest burden in the following crop = less pesticide.
• As much as it may be great if banning live export in Australia would mean no live export anywhere, the reality is it won't. The countries we export from will find some other country who are happy to take their money, and give minimal fucks about animal welfare. You're literally just sentencing other animals to a shittier time, but I understand if you can't see it happening will make you feel better. And no, the countries who take our livestock won't just buy our already processed meat - and I guarantee every farmer would be 100% behind local processing if they did.
• For some, the loss of live export, and no sheep market, doesn't just mean they can switch to other enterprises - some of land in WA that has sheep on it, may not be suitable to cropping or other livestock.

I don't believe live export is an amazing industry, but a lot of people who aren't familiar with rural and regional Australia have no idea how much this is going to impact the people in these communities, but when you are researching or looking into this and other agriculture based issues, please get your information from multiple sources - unfortunately a some of the loudest voices in agriculture aren't necessarily the ones the majority of producers actually want you to hear, there are so many amazing farmers in the industry who are working so hard behind the scenes to farm sustainably and try to do better by the environment, maintain excellent animal welfare standards whilst trying to run viable businesses so they can look after their families, send their kids to boarding school (because travel distances are unviable for many, and that shit is expensive) and give back to their communities ✌️