Join the virtual protest to end live export!

BREAKING NEWS: Bills submitted to parliament to end all live exports. Animals Australia releases further damning evidence of cruelty to Australian exported animals in Kuwait, calling for an end to all live exports. Agriculture Minister Ludwig pushes for resumption of the live trade to Indonesia with unnacceptable standards that will permit the slaughter of fully conscious animals. Animals Australia and RSPCA Australia launch the online virtual protest. Over 10,000 people pass judgement on live exports quicker than the Gillard Government. Can you? Connect with us for live updates: Dear luciano, Last night, a voice for animals was heard in parliament. Two historic bills were submitted — by independents Andrew Wilkie and Nick Xenophon, and by the Greens — that if passed, would end live export and prevent the suffering of millions of animals sent to the Middle East and Asia each year. Never before has the pressure been greater to end this cruel trade. Yet right now our Federal Agriculture Minister is returning to Australia following talks to reopen the live cattle trade to Indonesia — alarmingly by stating that Australia will accept the slaughter of fully conscious animals, without stunning. Minister Ludwig couldn't be more out of touch with community expectations, which is why right now I hope you can join us to ensure that Julia Gillard hears our concerns. We've made it easy for you to have your say — literally! Click here to join the virtual protest! Let me explain just how powerful your voice is... We have learned that despite consistently providing the Government with irrefutable evidence of animal cruelty, only when this evidence is exposed to the public by the media does the Government take steps to act. In November last year, I traveled to Kuwait where I documented the treatment of Australian exported sheep. These gentle animals were routinely bound with wire, stuffed into car boots and brutally slaughtered in the streets. As you can imagine this was equally abhorrent to the footage we gathered in Indonesia. Yet more than six months after presenting this evidence to the Minister, the Australian Government has done nothing to prevent Australian animals from being supplied to this fate in Kuwait. Yesterday Animals Australia publicly released further evidence to the media from the Kuwait investigation that had never before been seen on television. These images were broadcast on the evening news around Australia, exposing Government inaction and leaving no doubt that sending animals half way around the world only to be slaughtered is indefensible. Now not only has the cruelty of live export been exposed — so too has the Australian Government's willingness to defend — or at best, ignore — the suffering caused by this trade. With your support we can give these animals the loudest possible voice and let our Government know that we are all watching. If you're video savvy, please join our virtual protest, or, click one of the options below to be heard today: Tell Julia Gillard how long it takes YOU to judge live export... Listen to our radio ad and help keep it on the airwaves... Send this video to your MP and state Senators... Thank you for being a voice for animals! Lyn White Investigator & Campaign Director P.S. Our sincere thanks go to everyone who is contacting their MPs and senators to remind them that Australians want the live trade to end. Your efforts have helped direct thousands of e-mails, phone calls and ‘bags of mail' to politicians' offices, resulting in one of the largest public responses in Australian political history! Whilst parliamentary debate on the live export bills has been adjourned, we still need to keep up the pressure. Click here for tips on lobbying your representatives. 37 O'Connell St, North Melbourne Victoria 3051, Australia Ph: (03) 9329 6333 Fax: (03) 9329 6441 Freecall: 1800 888 584 You have received this message because turlbombeiro@gmail.com is subscribed to the Animals Australia mailing list. To unsubscribe, click here.