Action Centre: Animals don't have a voice, but you do. Please use it.

Hot Issue:

Live Export
Please keep the pressure on to end live animal export. Write a letter to your local paper and state newspapers, also contact radio station talk back shows.

Also contact your Federal Member of Parliament (your elected representative) and let them know how you feel. The laws in our country can only reflect public opinion; therefore it is up to each and every one of us to let them know live export is unacceptable.

Click here if you are unsure who your Federal Member is. We know you are busy and on behalf of the animals we offer you our deepest thanks.

Also facebook page has been set up to provide an easy way for you to send a message to your MP to support a bill to end live animal export.

Vist Animals Australia for ways to help.

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little”.Edmund Burke - English Parliamentarian

I need more information on the issues faced by farmed animals before taking a stand:

• Live Export
  
  
• There are no national laws applying to animal welfare, but all states and territories regulate animal welfare in their jurisdiction. The legislation in each State and Territory is given here
  
  
• Codes of Practice:
  500 million production animals are excluded from the protection of Australia's animal welfare legislation. As a result, millions of farm animals daily endure living conditions and acts of cruelty that would be illegal if applied to your cat or dog
  
  


• Pigs - Intensive Pork Industry
• Chickens - Battery Hen Industry and Intensive Meat Industry
• Sheep - Wool Industry

I am ready to download a petition to sign and send in:

• petition against Live Export - sign the Get Up petition
• petition to Hungry Jacks against the use of pork products from facilities that use sow stalls and eggs from hens in battery cages

I am ready to write a letter but:

• I don't know who to contact or where to write them.
  • Click here for contact details of government Ministers around Australia.
  • Not sure who your federal member of parliament is? Find out here.
  • Consider contacting your local supermarkets and butcher shops. Look up their addresses or hand your letter to them personally.
    
    
• I don't know what to say:
  
  • Download our sample letters or use them as a guide to write your own. Personalised letters may have more impact but every letter shows your concern for the issue. We support only polite and respectful phone calls and/or letters and emails.
    
    To use one of our sample letters please click one of the links below and then select the "Save" option NOT the "Open" option to download a copy to your computer.
    • letter to the Prime Minister about Live Export
    • letter to Supermarket Managers about Codes of Practice and pigs
    • letter to Minister about Code of Practice and pigs
    • letter to Minister about Code of Practice and chickens
      
      

If you don't receive a reply, don't give up, follow up politely until your concerns are acknowledged and addressed. Please let us know the response you get.