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for service to the community through contributions to
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Farmer retired in 2010. In retirement, he headed an independent review of
Australia's live animal export trade, tasked in June 2011 to examine the facilities, treatment and handling of livestock in Indonesia. Farmer made 14 recommendations, including that live animal exporters should be required to
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