Under the reforms, those transporting horses would no longer be allowed to drive more than 12 hours without giving them access to water and a significant rest.
Horse owners, trainers and transporters would no longer be allowed to drive more than 12 hours without giving their animals a significant rest and access to water under new government proposals aimed at lifting Australia’s world-lagging standards of care., could replace decade-old national benchmarks around space, bedding and the use of restraints, and also require people to document their breaks and segregate certain categories of animals.
It also highlighted another incident that year involving the death of a horse after six brumbies and 30 domestic horses, which should generally be kept separate because of the risk of fear and injury, were loaded together for a trip from Victoria to Queensland. The capped travel time would bring Australia in line with the United States but would still fall short of the eight hours imposed in Europe.
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