Animals Australia has released more footage of animals being mistreated prior to their slaughter overseas - this time sheep in Kuwait.

The images show Australian sheep being jammed into the boots of cars, bound, kicking and being dragged on the ground on the way to an abattoir.

Lyn White from Animals Australia says the animals that died in ships en route are "the lucky ones" and described the treatment of sheep in Kuwait as "brutal".

She says she has brought back evidence of cruelty to sheep in Kuwait three times in six years and passed the footage to the incumbent government.

Likening the treatment of sheep to the cruelty to cattle in Indonesia, she asked: "Why are we continuing to provide animals to these countries?"

"There is nothing that is going to prevent this treatment from re-occurring this year - animals being trussed, thrown into boots, up to three large merino sheep going into a tiny boot, being dragged on their stomachs along the street and then being subjected to the most brutal slaughter imaginable," she told a press conference.

"Supplying millions of animals to countries where there are no laws to protect them."

Some of the footage was released last November, along with a statement calling on the Prime Minister to ban the live export trade to the Middle East.

Ms White says some new images have been shown for the first time on Monday to show the animal cruelty problems extend beyond Indonesia.

She says she sent the footage to Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig when she returned from Kuwait.

"It is only seven months ago that I spent three days in a Kuwaiti livestock market documenting once again Australian sheep being brutalised," she said.

"At the time I felt that [Senator Ludwig] was going to act on this, but in the end what he did was put it in the hands of industry to come up with a solution and no solution has been presented that will stop this from occurring in Kuwait again this year."

Senator Ludwig is in Indonesia trying to sort out a way to restart the live cattle export trade.

His office said he has been aware of the evidence for some time and has been working with industry.

His office says the industry's response has been inadequate and the independent review on live exports include the export of all live animals to all markets.

Phased out in three years

The new footage comes as independent MPs Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon look to introduce a bill into Parliament that would see all Australian live animal exports phased out within three years.

Mr Wilkie says the bill would also see safeguards introduced before there is any resumption of the trade to Indonesia.

He says he can accept the live exports resuming in the interim but only if the animals are treated to Australian standards.

"We all want to see effective safeguards put in place immediately because lets not forget, there is something like 30,000 head of cattle, Australian cattle, in feed lots in Indonesia right now and last night many of them were slaughtered. Tonight many more will be slaughtered," he said.

"So it is not enough simply to have this moratorium and to look to the future. We have to also think of the welfare of those animals who are in Indonesia right now."

Senator Xenophon says the "sky didn't fall in for the Kiwis" when they banned live sheep exports.

"I think it is interesting that New Zealand a few years ago banned the live export trade of sheep. They have a situation where they now have increased dramatically their chilled meat trade," he said.

"I think it is important that we hear from Animals Australia and the RSPCA in terms of this latest vision which is unfortunately quite repulsive but it sets out how inhumane this trade is and the only way to deal with this is to phase it out."

Heather Neil from the RSPCA has urged all politicians to turn the bill into legislation.

"We really hope that when MPs and senators have the opportunity to vote on this legislation in the coming months, that they will listen to the voice of animals and that they'll listen to the voice of the Australian community and support it."