Australian government ordered to pay NT company $3m damages over live cattle ban

Then agriculture minister ruled to have acted recklessly and committed misfeasance in public office over 2011 banThe federal government has been ordered to pay almost $3m in damages to a Northern Territory company after the previous Labor government’s decision to ban live cattle exports was found to be invalid.Justice Steven Rares on 2 June ruled that the then agriculture minister, Joe Ludwig, acted recklessly and committed misfeasance in public office when he banned farmers from exporting