Thanks for getting in touch. From all accounts the day was a great success and was covered well in the news. The AJP will be supporting the abolishing of these horror places

best wishes
AJP

I urge you and the Parliament to support a BAN ON LIVE EXPORT meats from Australia.

I appreciate and am deeply sympathetic that some jobs may be under increased pressure due to any such ban and I would fully endorse my tax dollars being used to help transition those effected workers. As a Nation however, we can not weigh, or use for political point scoring, the relatively small number of people who will be adversely effected compared to the suffering and pain of literally millions of sentient animals, that in our own wonderful country are valued and respected as more than mere commodities.

Australia will never be able to guarantee the practises of another sovereign nation. Therefore the onus must be on us to do what we know is right, and then move decisively, intelligently and creatively to re-make our economy.

This is not the first time our proud Nation, nor the world has been faced with such challenges. Indeed, many democracies and their economies fight for them everyday. We engage our intelligence and creativity, guided by our moral compass to compete against countries that pay lower wages, exploit child labour, have no health coverage for their citizens, give no voice to women, do not care for their needy etc. We compete and though it is difficult, the tide of history sides with us.

The end of slavery once posed economic challenges to some Nations and many individuals, but slavery ended because it was the right thing to do. The emancipation of women posed economic challenges to some segments of society and/or individuals, yet women were emancipated because it was the right thing to do. Some once argued that the ending of child labour would make their economies uncompetitive, yet child labour was abolished because it was the right thing to do. The worker practises of the early Industrial revolution ended, because it was the right thing to do. The White Australia policy was abandoned and Indigenous Australians given the right to vote and share fully in this great democracy because it was the right thing to do.

We stand once more at the threshold of a major moral challenge for our Nation. And we must change, not because it is without sacrifice economically, nor because it is the easier more stable road to travel, but because it is the right thing to do. It is part of the shared and common direction of our Nation. A direction we have shared since our founding. It is a direction that favours compassion for those weaker or less able or without voice amongst us. A direction that favours moral courage and leadership in the face of great challenges. A direction that favours, not merely a toleration, but a celebration of difference. A direction that meets challenges head-on, and deals with them creatively, intelligently and courageously. That is the Australia I know. That is the Australia I am proud to call my home.

Please stand up against cruelty and suffering and give voice to those who have none. It is a stand in the right direction. It is the right thing to do.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Josef – Narrabeen

I’m looking forward to seeing how much more can be achieved by finally having a political voice for non-human animals.

Thank you!

I wish everyone would get behind this cause, economy and politics don’t help an animal having it’s throat cut and being treated inhumanely. They are just excuses!

The government should be ashamed of themselves for giving in. THIS CANNOT BE TOLERATED